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It's so amazing that we have this picture at all. If we had done anything other than a high speed flyby, it would have taken literally decades (46.5 years) to insert something into Pluto's orbit using traditional Hohman transfers. Yeeting a camera at it in only a few years is insane.
For real! Pluto was always this little blob growing up, then it had a fuzzy heart, and then to be able to see it with as much resolution as we did is amazing. It's a curious and beautiful little dwarf