How our view of Pluto has changed over the years

Pluto was discovered back in 1930 and that precious dwarf planet has been a foggy gray pixelated object to us ever since . Though our sentiment of Pluto has have better ever so slightly over the years , we ’ve never seen it in detail until the New Horizons spacecraft flew by everyone ’s favorite former planet .

SpaceSciNewsroomput together this video express how much our view of Pluto has been improved :

The first human body is a digital zoom - in on Pluto as it appeared upon its find by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 ( epitome good manners Lowell Observatory Archives ) . The other range of a function show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA ’s Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA ’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 . The last chronological succession zoom in to a close - up soma of Pluto released on July 15 , 2015 .