On September 26, a video dubbed "Charon flyover (closest footage ever)" was uploaded on YouTube. This 13-second-long video can make one experience how it feels to soar over pockmarked, rotating surface of Charon.

Roman Tkachenko, who is having a series of fun 3D Pluto renderings and flyovers available on YouTube, created the video. These are available under the username New Horizons Processed. Tkachenko uses freely available images released by NASA and processes them into renderings with help of which viewers can sense of being up close with Pluto and its satellites.

New Horizons was launched in 2006 on a mission for analyzing some of the biggest objects in the Kuiper Belt, which is a region of the solar system starting just beyond Neptune.

NASA’s New Horizons team has released their latest high-resolution images of Pluto on regular basis, following the historic flyby over the dwarf planet in July. The images have helped scientists and others appreciate the most excellent color map ever created of Pluto’s appearance.

The cylindrical projection map assists researchers in zooming into various locations to observe Pluto closely. New characteristics of the planet have been found by them. A patch of tangled ridges that look similar to a snake’s skin are an example.

William McKinnon, NASA geophysicist, said in a statement, “It’s an exclusive and perplexing landscape extending nearly hundreds of miles. It seems to be identical to a tree bark or dragon scales than geology”.

“This’ll essentially consume time to figure out,” McKinnon stated, speculating that “maybe it is some kind of blending of internal tectonic forces and ice sublimation steered by the pale sunlight of Pluto.”