Miami:
Pluto's surface has long been a blur to sky watchers on Earth, but a NASA spacecraft on Wednesday should provide the first high-resolution images of the distant dwarf planet after a historic flyby mission.
The unmanned, $700 million nuclear-powered spacecraft known as New Horizons spent much of Tuesday snapping pictures and collecting data as it zoomed by
Pluto.
Those images, including colour data on Pluto and some of its five moons, are expected to offer 10 times more detail than ever before seen.
'Sending back 'first-look' data to the team 'down under',' the New Horizons team wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning, indicating its space antenna in Canberra, Australia was receiving information from the craft.
A press briefing is scheduled for 3 pm (1900 GMT) to unveil the findings.