Pluto comes into focus | Science News

Long out of reach, Pluto came into focus in this year with the New Horizons mission. The dwarf planet proved to be a world like no other. That's one reason why it's our top science story of 2015: http://ow.ly/VSO0z

Story: Chris Crockett

Production & Narration: Helen Thompson

Video: Bryan Bello, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)

Animations: NASA/JHUAPL (Pluto and New Horizons), NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Mark Showalter (Pluto’s Moons)

Music: “Cylinder Three” by Chris Zabriskie (CC BY 4.0)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/

Sound Effects: nemoDaedelus (CC BY 3.0)
https://www.freesound.org/peop....le/nemoDaedalus/soun

Images: NASA, JHUAPL, SwRI, Lowell Observatory Archives, ESA, ESO
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_p....ages/newhorizons/mai