What to expect:
• At least one close-up of the region that people are calling its heart.
• NASA might also release a 3D image of some part of the planet's surface along the lines of this landscape from Mars. (Get your 3D glasses ready!)
• A high-resolution image of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon.
• The crispest photos ever made of Nix and Hydra, Pluto’s two smaller moons, which were discovered in 2005.
Hal Weaver, a New Horizons project scientist, said Tuesday that the first batch of Pluto flyby data will also include information about what's in Pluto's thin atmosphere and the temperatures on the night side.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?