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Seeing Pluto like never before Seeing Pluto like never before Updated: Updated: March 08, 2021 11:58 IST Twenty five years ago, on March 7, 1996, the first image-based surface map of Pluto was released. Sixty six years after it had been discovered, astronomers finally saw details on its surface directly. While we have had better images of the dwarf planet since, A.S.Ganesh takes a look at these first images and how they helped us understand Pluto better... Share Article AAA The first image-based surface map of Pluto that was released on March 7, 1996.   | Photo Credit: NASA Twenty five y...

NASA/KSC To explore the Pluto-Charon system, NASA designed the small New Horizons probe and put it on one of the largest rockets, the Atlas V. When it left Earth, New Horizons was the fastest spacecraft ever, zooming to the end of the solar system at a speed of more than 58,000 km (36,000 miles) per hour. With the exploration of Pluto, NASA probes would have visited every planet, but before New Horizons even got past Jupiter… August 24, 2006: Pluto Demoted to Dwarf Planet The dwarf planet Ceres in a photograph taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on February 19, 2015, from a distance of nearly 4...