Finally, the wait is over as the New Horizons spacecraft has reached Pluto. It took almost 10 years and more than 3.6 million miles for NASA's spacecraft to reach at its ultimate destination. On Wednesday, the space agency has released the first images of Pluto.

Patrick Wiggins, a local NASA ambassador, said, "It's been kind of an exciting thing for those of us, especially following this, because we've been waiting and waiting and waiting almost a decade, and then of course it was over in a matter of hours".

Wiggins said that though the agency has received great amount of data and images, but there is lot more to be sent. The data rate at which information can be sent back is quite slow, so it will take time before they get all the needed details.

The mission will help the researchers know more about the solar system's creation. From the images, ice mountains can be seen that reveal water is present is great amount. Researchers said that it was something they had never expected to find. Informally, this region is known as Clyde Tombaugh, which was discovered in 1930 on Pluto.

On Pluto, there are very few craters. Researchers said that they have been trying to what is actually resurfacing them. The latest image of the dwarf planet shows a massive, crater-less plan that must be around 100 million years old.