This super image comes from the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera on New Horizons. It combines blue, red and near infrared (NIR) images.
The enhanced view will help decode the various geological and climatological processes that have worked together to produce all the complex surface features seen on Pluto.
Alex Parker, a team member from the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, worked on the Ralph portrait.
"This image consumed the better part of this week for me," he tweeted.
"I removed striping noise and deconvolved the images, massively improving sharpness.
"Since the NIR, red and blue images used to make this colour composite are taken separately, they have to be precisely aligned in software.
"The instrument is a TDI (time delay and integration) camera, and has funny spatial distortions. I removed all of these by hand to create the final colour product.