New Pluto images confirm it as a world of mysteries

New close-up images of dwarf planet Pluto have 'scientists reeling' because of the bewildering variety of surface features revealed.

As celestial bodies go, Pluto is far more surprising than anyone could have expected.

"Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system," said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, in the official Nasa announcement that also claimed scientists were 'reeling' from seeing the new pictures.