14 DAY TRIAL // Unless you reside in a cave at the bottom of the Pacific and only surface for Christmas and other special occasions, odds are you've at least heard that, this past July 14, NASA's New Horizons probe made space exploration history when it zoomed past dwarf planet Pluto and its moons.
Now, for those of you who don't have the time to read exhaustive studies in a desperate attempt to brush up on your knowledge of the Solar System and figure out what NASA scientists are going on about with their Pluto mission, here's an infographic detailing pretty much everything there is to know about this alien world.
The infographic, put together by Chris Jones of Space Facts, includes information on Pluto's size, its makeup, its address in our cosmic neighborhood. It even includes the moons orbiting it, i.e. Hydra, Kerberos, Nix, Styx and Charon, so you can get a better idea of what the Pluto system looks like.
In case you were wondering, the infographic is based on New Horizons data concerning the actual size of dwarf planet Pluto. Thus, it was the NASA probe that revealed that, contrary to the not-so-nice things said about it over the years, Pluto is, in fact, the largest dwarf planet thus far documented within the borders of our Solar System.
As the New Horizons spacecraft continues to communicate with base and more of the data it collected during its flyby of the Pluto system reaches scientists at NASA, we can expect new insights into the anatomy of this distant celestial body and the world around it will follow.
