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Re:New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto by srl on Sunday December 04, 2011 @01:27AM (#3310028)
My understanding (which I got from an astronomer looking for moons) is that it'll be enough to get a clear look at major features on most (not all!) of Pluto's surface, but nothing spectacular. Realize that even today, we don't really know what Pluto looks like, so any knowledge is big knowledge.
Re:New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto by jarin on Sunday December 04, 2011 @06:31AM (#3310456)
There are some images from Hubble:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto_animiert.gif

Pluto only fills up a few pixels on Hubble's camera, but it's possible over time to generate a rough image:

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/pluto/mapstory.html