PARIS: Earlier this year, NASA made history by sending the first unmanned spacecraft to one of the farthest worlds in our solar system: Pluto.
Now, the agency has released this incredible video, made from real images of the spacecraft’s journey, where you can experience what it would have been like to fly over Pluto as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft did last July.
This video isn’t the first to take us on a wild trip to Pluto, but it’s the first produced by NASA.
You can find the video in the latest addition to NASA’s amazing Instagram account, which is packed with stunning images of far-off gas clouds and not-so-distant planets, like Mars.
The first shot — shown below — in the video was taken in early July, just days before New Horizons reached its closest approach to Pluto on July 14. You can see Pluto on the right with its largest moon, Charon, on the left.
Pluto wasn’t the only target on New Horizons’ list. Charon, which was discovered in 1978 by astronomer Jame Christy, is equally alluring and mysterious. That’s why New Horizons spent some time snapping pictures of this enigmatic moon in addition to Pluto.
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