FIRST CLOSE-UP IMAGES of NASA’s New Horizons target Ultima Thule reveal a lumpy snowman.

These pictures are the first high-resolution ones we have of an object in the Kuiper Belt named Ultima Thule (2014 MU69). The images were taken on January 1st around 12:33AM ET, when the New Horizons spacecraft sped past the rock at a whopping 32,000 miles per hour.