We’re having a Pluto party, we didn’t even planet 🥳 Six years ago NASASolarSystem New Horizons spacecraft made history with the first up-close exploration of the Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. Zipping by at more than 30,000 miles per hour during its historic flyby on July 14, 2015, the spacecraft gathered some of these sharp images and topographic data: 📸View the rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges and deep reds that make up Pluto’s Surface, evidence of a complex history scientists have only begun to decode. 📸 Peer into Pluto's blue haze, a high-altitude layer that likely involves sunlight initiating chemical reactions of nitrogen and methane and leading to small soot-like particles that settle towards the surface. 📏Famously petite, Pluto is about 5.5 times smaller than Earth. Side by side, both Pluto and Charon would barely span the United States. Charon, with a diameter of 753 miles, is the largest moon relative to its parent planet – Pluto has a diameter of 1,477 ...