Tuesday, July 14, 2015

First Photo of Pluto from New Horizons, After 9-Year Journey

The New Horizons spacecraft traveled nine years and three billion miles to take this picture of Pluto. Some of us were taught Pluto is a planet. These days, it is not a planet. Sometime later in 2015, perhaps Pluto again will be declared a planet

Perhaps Ceres (orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter) will get the appellation as well. 

Pluto

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