Pluto Flyby Anniversary: The Most Amazing Photos from NASA's New Horizons

[Judi Lynn]

By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | July 14, 2017 07:24am ET

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history. It became the first probe ever to fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons. We're celebrating the epic feat with some of the most amazing images from the Pluto encounter, even as New Horizons looks ahead to an even more distant rendezvous at the edge of the solar system. Click the arrows to see the best photos from (at Pluto and on Earth) from New Horizons' encounter.


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[Canoe52]

1. Wait Pluto has moons and isn't considered a planet?

Wtf? It works for me, what's everyone else's problem?

[Grown2Hate]

3. Well stated. Pluto is sentimental, but as our

discoveries in the Kuiper Belt have expanded, unless we want to name the upwards of 1500 Plutinos as individual planets, we're done here.

A famous astronomer (name escapes me) said, "Let's not get upset that Pluto is no longer a planet. Let's get excited about the new discoveries of the dwarf planets and what it means for astronomy" (paraphrasing).