Undoubtedly, Pluto is among the most fascinating and interesting celestial objects. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a flyby of Pluto last year in July and since then, it has been beaming back data and images of the dwarf planet revealing what makes Pluto beautiful, bewitching space object.

Earlier, the probe sent another batch of images of Pluto portraying the Kuiper belt object as mysterious icy world. These snapshots show that surface of the dwarf world is incredibly diverse. New Horizons team released a set of five science papers this week in the journal Science, revealing interesting information about Pluto and its moons.

One of the science papers analyzed a picture captured by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) and reported about Pluto’s hazy atmosphere. As per the paper, the haze has extended across the dwarf planet’s surface for many kilometers. But the US space agency NASA thinks layers of haze are not parallel to the surface. “For example, scientists note a haze layer about 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the surface (lower-left area of the image), which descends to the surface at the right”, said the NASA statement.

New Horizons team studied the latest batch of images and found that Pluto has some areas that are cratered from asteroid impacts. These regions seem from the time when Pluto was formed, approximately 4.5 billion years ago, as per the team.

There are some other interesting regions on Pluto as well. For instance, heart-shaped Sputnik Planum, which holds no evidence of any asteroid impact, the team said.

It suggests Pluto is continuously having surface activities. It will be interesting to know more about geologically active dwarf planet. This surface area could not be more than 10 million years old, the research paper added.

New Horizons has sent a number of high-resolution images that are showing diverse ice reservoirs across the surface.