At closest approach, New Horizons will be less than 12,500km above the dwarf planet's icy surface, but 4.5bn kilometres from Earth.
At closest approach on 28 November, it will be no more than 1.2 million km (800,000 miles) from our star's boiling surface.
At closest approach during the flyby, the resolution in Rosetta's pictures was about 60m per pixel, more than sufficient to pick out remarkable details on its surface.
The spacecraft had been commanded to first send back five photographs taken at closest approach, but because of a software glitch, it instead sent back the images in the order they had been taken, starting with faraway ones.
He witnessed the life of the circumscribed city dweller at closest range and registered his environment down to the reflections of the pigeons' feet in the puddles on the sidewalk.
Earth viewed from Mars would also be resplendent this summer, appearing first as a brilliant evening star at dusk, disappearing into the Sun at closest approach and reappearing as a morning star later in the fall.
