Five years ago today, our New Horizons mission reached Pluto. The spacecraft revealed that what we once knew only as a tiny dot is a complex and beautiful world: solarsystem.nasa.gov/pluto | NASA Solar System Exploration

The notorious dwarf, Pluto. #NowAndThen Using actual @newhorizonsmission data and digital elevation models of Pluto, mission #scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the #Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself. This dramatic Pluto flyover begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally na

Pluto has a thin atmosphere with a blue tint. Find out what else makes the "King of the Kuiper Belt" interesting. Stream "The Planets: Ice Worlds" online or on the @PBS app now: https://to.pbs.org/2YztewN | NOVA l PBS