Pluto may be three billion miles away , but we can still conceive of what it ’d be like to stand on the icy dwarf earth ’s surface . That ’s because it ’s always Pluto Time somewhere . In fact , here on the East Coast , it ’s Pluto Time this very hour .
Pluto Time is a extra moment of interplanetary kinship that happen twice day by day , everywhere around the universe . It ’s that wink just before dawn and after sundown , when the sky on Earth is the same miniature as the airfoil of Pluto at twelve noon . For the last few weeks leave up to the historic New Horizons flyby , NASA ’s been boost everyone to get alfresco at Pluto Time , snap a photo , and post it on societal metier .
Here are a few of the highlight the space agency collected from around the world :
After New Horizons zoom past Pluto at a focal ratio of 30,000 mile per minute next week , it ’ll send back the best images to day of the month of the diminutive , distant , ice world . The New Horizons missionwill tell us a tremendous amountabout Pluto ’s atmosphere and surface composition as it explores the ball-shaped geology and morphology of Pluto and its moons .
If you missed this exceptional Pluto Time while reading this spot , do n’t palpate too regretful . Go have a drink for Pluto anyway . In a way , Pluto Time ’s just getting started for all of us .
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