For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space. We knew it was there — even knew its size and gravity — but, without better images, we could not answer seemingly basic questions about it. Was it pocked by craters? What was its atmosphere like?
Our understanding of the orb has slowly improved (with the Hubble Space Telescope's help), but this week it takes a cosmic step forward. On Tuesday morning, NASA's New Horizons probe zipped by Pluto and its dwarf moon, Charon. After a nine-year journey from Earth, New Horizons took hundreds of images in mere hours on Tuesday — images that will fill textbooks and museum exhibits for decades, as well as help scientists figure out how our solar system came to support life. Read more...
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