Finally getting a glimpse of our favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, has been an incredible thrill, but seeming to fly by it is even better.
Bjorn Jonsson painstakingly stitched together shots taken by New Horizons to create this enchanting animation, which he notes will be updated as more data comes in from the mission.
A few more notes from the description:
Pluto’s atmosphere is included and should be fairly realistic from about 10 seconds into the animation and to the end. Earlier it is largely just guesswork that can be improved in the future once all data has been downlinked from the spacecraft. Light from Pluto’s satellite Charon illuminates Pluto’s night side but is exaggerated here, in reality it would be only barely visible or not visible at all.
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