The photo above is one of the highest-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. It shows new details of the planet's rugged, icy cratered plains.

New high-resolution images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provide the clearest look at Pluto that we might have for decades.

Space.com reports that the spectacular photos were during its historic Pluto flyby on July 14. They provide a close up look at the dwarf planet's sweeping plains and massive water-ice mountains.

Previously unnoticed details of Pluto’s surface become visible, including what appear to be, whose sides appear coated in dark material in some places, while others are bright, according to NASA.

There also is , which may have something to do with layers seen in some of Pluto’s crater walls. Other materials look as though they were crushed between the mountains, as if the blocks of water ice, some as much as 1.5 miles high, were jostled back and forth.

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"These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high-resolution window into Pluto's geology," said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern. "Nothing of this quality was available for Venus or Mars until decades after their first flybys, yet at Pluto, we're there already — down among the craters, mountains and ice fields — less than five months after flyby!"

"New Horizons thrilled us during the July flyby with the first close images of Pluto, and as the spacecraft transmits the treasure trove of images in its onboard memory back to us, we continue to be amazed by what we see," former astronaut and NASA Science Mission Directorate associate administrator John Grunsfeld .

These new photos are to make it back to mission control. More are expected to arrive soon.

Pluto Photos from New Horizons Spacecraft

New Horizons scientists made this false-color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto's distinct regions. The image data were collected by the spacecraft’s Ralph/MVIC color camera on July 14 at 11:11 AM UTC, from a range of 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometers). (Credits:NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)