Get trippy on NASA's psychedelic Pluto

Using a technique called principal component analysis, New Horizons scientists made this false colour image of Pluto.

This was done to highlight the many subtle colour differences between Pluto's distinct regions.

The image data were collected by the spacecraft’s Ralph/MVIC color camera on July 14 at 11:11 AM UTC, from a range of 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometres).

Because it is 149.6 million kilometers away from Earth, the images reach us months later.

A cornucopia of color, just in time for #Fall. Check out this psychedelic #Pluto pic from our July 14 #PlutoFlyby. pic.twitter.com/vxiQcsbVxc

— NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) November 12, 2015

This image was presented by Will Grundy of the New Horizons’ surface composition team on November 9th at the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in National Harbor, Maryland.

There, researchers also revealed Pluto's South Pole may contain giant ice volcanoes, according to new 3D images from NASA's New Horizons probe.

'We're not yet ready to announce we have found volcanic constructs at Pluto, but these sure look suspicious and we're looking at them very closely,' said Jeff Moore, a planetary scientist at NASA.

The nine-year mission to Pluto reached its climax in July when New Horizons flew close to the dwarf planet before journeying into the Wild West of space - the Third Zone.