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epa04846510 A handout picture made available by NASA shows Pluto nearly filling the frame in the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA 2019 New Horizons spacecraft, taken on 13 July 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument that was acquired earlier on 13 July. The US spacecraft became the first to fly past the dwarf planet Pluto, capping the exploration of the solar system, scientists said. EPA/NASA / APL / SWRI / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY