Recent news updates released by NASA indicates that Pluto may have one of the most varied landscapes in the solar system.

These information were based on the latest images taken by the New Horizon spacecraft as it flew over the Pluto system last July 14, reported BBC.

The images captured by the spacecraft shows mountains, dunes and smooth cratered areas.

Professor Allan Stern, NASA's head of mission, described the images as "amazing," saying they have "transformed" the way people perceive the far-away world.

"It certainly rivals the Earth and Mars, perhaps even occupies the number one spot for complexity of all the planets in the Solar System," Stern said, as he explained the latest news of NASA on Pluto.

"The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected. Pluto itself displays (such a diverse) range of geological landforms that it is unprecedented in the Solar System," he added.

In 2006, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the earth's solar system after the discovery of the dwarf planet Elis.

But from the latest data obtained by the New Horizon, Pluto now appears to be larger than Elis and should therefore be considered a planet.

In the meantime, the latest news released by NASA coming from the New Horizon has also revealed some "odd" features of Pluto, according to the Slate.

The images taken by the spacecraft in July shows hundreds of pits in Sputnik Planum, the "atrium and ventricle" of the famous heart-shaped region.

It is theorized that this huge area may be a depression on the planet's surface filled with frozen nitrogen, which may possibly have flowed over into the lowlands like a glacier and smoothening it.

However, the region's lack of craters indicates it's younger than the rougher highlands though it is difficult to accurately determine its age.

Based on the New Horizon images, the bigger, circular pits look to be roughly a kilometer across, with some bigger, while the smaller dimples are a few hundred meters across, and about tens of meters deep.

These latest news from NASA are expected to keep Pluto watchers' imagination busy in the coming weeks.