NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent new images of Pluto, which has been providing new information about the dwarf planet. The images are having higher resolution in comparison to the ones released in July, when the spacecraft flew within 8,000 miles of Pluto's surface.

Experts said that the dwarf planet's puffy nitrogen atmosphere looks amazing. In the images, it is also possible to see atmospheric rays that appear at dawn and dusk. Alan Stern, the mission's principal investigator, was of the view that Pluto's geology is quite diverse. He even termed it to be magical and breathtaking.

For now, there is not much clarity on how the extreme diversity of Pluto's surface has been shaped and as per experts, more data can offer clues in it. The researchers said that they will also be able to know more about the other members of Pluto's family like its large moon Charon and its four satellites Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx.

Charon is not as diverse as Pluto and it also does not have a puffy atmosphere. Stern said Charon is having its own history. It has other type of tectonic features on the surface like big canyons. Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, said that the surface of Pluto is as complex as Mars.