10 Important Dates in Pluto History: Media
Planet or not, Pluto has made its mark.
Images
Pluto, discovery of
Pluto (denoted here by the arrows) was revealed to its discoverer, astronomer Clyde...
Lowell Observatory Photograph
Pluto; Charon
Pluto (centre) and Charon (lower left), as observed by the European Space Agency's...
From National Aeronautics and Space Administration/European Space Agency
Neptune
The spacecraft Voyager 2 flew for 12 years before it got close enough to Neptune...
NASA/JPL
Moons of Pluto
Pluto and three of its moons—Charon, Nix, and Hydra—as observed by the Hubble Space...
HST Pluto Companion Search/ESA/NASA
New Horizons liftoff
Liftoff of the New Horizons spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral...
NASA/KSC
Ceres: bright spots
The dwarf planet Ceres in a photograph taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on February...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DKLR/IDA
Pluto, image taken by New Horizons
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute