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NASA is celebrating an historic first mission to Pluto as the world anxiously awaits more images of the dwarf planet._ by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 15, 2015 8:02 PM UTC  Detailed photograph of an icy mountain range on Pluto's surface. Detailed photograph of an icy mountain range on Pluto's surface. NASA/JHU APL/SwRI by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 15, 2015 8:02 PM UTC NASA’s latest images of Pluto show off a gigantic icy mountain range that formed no more than 100 million years ago. The mountains are “mere youngsters” compared to the 4.56-billion-year age of our solar system, the agency said. The photos are the latest from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. See the photos in the gallery above.  Detailed photograph of an icy mountain range on Pluto's surface. NASA/JHU APL/SwRI  A close up view of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI  Pluto's moon, Hydra. NASA/JHU APL/SwRI ## Transcript We have a healthy space craft. We've recorded data of the Pluto system, and we're outbound to Pluto. It was a nine year, 3 billion mile journey to Pluto so there was quite a bit of excitement when New Horizon's team members of the John Hopkins applied physics laboratory finally got that mission accomplished message. And lift off with NASA's New Horizon spacecraft. After launching January 2006, New Horizons flew by the dwarf planet and collected more data than scientists have ever had before. NASA had already seized a hi- res image that New Horizons was able to. To send back before its flight around the planet. But that's nothing compared to the treasure trove of data expected to come in. It takes around four and a half hours for a single signal to travel from the spacecraft to earth. It will be 16 months before New Horizons transfers everything it collected. The project will give scientists a better look at Pluto than they have ever had before. Researchers hope to learn more about it's atmosphere, it's geology and it's five moons. 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