Pluto has been a mysterious a mysterious space object for astronomers since its discovery in 1930. Earlier, NASA released some close images of Pluto’s surface, but now the space agency has been providing an even closer look at the dwarf planet.

The United States space agency NASA has shared some close-up images of Pluto on Thursday showing an intricate pattern of pits on the dwarf Planet’s surface. The images were taken by New Horizons during its flyby in July.

The newly shared pictures on Thursday are of an intricate pattern of pits the plutoid’s surface. The space agency has also released a color picture of a variety of terrains captured by its New Horizons spacecraft during closest approach to the object in the Kuiper belt July 14.

NASA said the pits shown in the images could be a result of ice fracturing and evaporation on the dwarf planet. The space agency’s researchers believe the pits were formed recently.

A high resolution image of Pluto released by NASA showing a region, called the Sputnik Planum. Icy plains clearly visible in the image are surrounded by some mountainous, known as the badlands. New Horizons took these images with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) during it flyby in July, NASA said.

John Spencer, a scientist of the New Horizons team, said the mountains surrounding Sputnik Planum region are appearing stunning at the new resolution image. “The new details revealed here, particularly the crumpled ridges in the rubbly material surrounding several of the mountains, reinforce our earlier impression that the mountains are huge ice blocks that have been jostled and tumbled and somehow transported to their present locations”, Spencer added.

“These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado of the initial black-and-white images. “Nothing of this quality was available for Venus or Mars until decades after their first flybys; yet at Pluto we’re there already – down among the craters, mountains and ice fields – less than five months after flyby! The science we can do with these images is simply unbelievable.”

Furthermore, the report Tech Times, compared to weather occurrences on Earth such as torrential rains or clear skies, weather patterns in space consist of plasma released by the sun that travels to the different corners of the solar system. In the latest NASA video created by the American space agency's Scientific Visualization Studio, the temperature in space is represented by the color red, density is represented by the color green and shock waves passing through the plasma field are represented by the color blue.