“Pluto is not dead.” that is a phrase that Earth hasn’t heard in a long time. Last week, NASA has released a stunning new image of Pluto’s crescent, further revealing the beauty of the distant planet.

What the image lacks in finer details more than makes up for in splendor, presenting a terrific look at the lonely planet as the sun hits its icy surface.

“This image was made just 15 minutes after New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto on Jul. 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun,” NASA said. “The wide-angle perspective of this view shows the deep haze layers of Pluto’s atmosphere extending all the way around Pluto, revealing the silhouetted profiles of rugged plateaus on the night side.”

It’s been 10 years since the launch of New Horizons. This spacecraft was responsible for the unveiling of Pluto in full color and great quality. Not only have images revealed the planet’s surface features enormous mountains and deep valleys, but the color of the sky is blue.

Not something you would have expected from the distant planet, which seems to surprise us with every new piece of  NASA receives.

New Horizons is going to continue sending back bits of data over the next several months, and if the image above is what we can expect, the trip to our solar system’s least understood planet will have been worth it. The process is of taking pictures is slow, that’s because data flows at a trickle over the more than 3 billion-mile chasm between New Horizons and Earth.

Parts of Pluto’s surface have almost no craters. The dwarf planet also has 3-kilometre-high mountains made of ice. These features together imply that Pluto is geologically active maybe, because Pluto has somehow warded off the cold better than we thought, leaving it with enough internal heat to drive geological processes.

Stay tuned for more news about New Horizons as they fly past Pluto to explore the galaxy beyond our solar system.