KEYBOARD
Ttop-down solar-system viewPor9Pluto surface view toward the Sun0Sun,1..8Mercury through Neptune focus, with3defaulting to Earth followA/Zor the up/down arrows move the camera in and out, all the way toward nearby stars</>narrow or widen field of view+and-speed up or slow down timeDdemo flight,MMars transfer,RArtemis I mission,VVoyager 1 outbound,Cclosest-star perspectiveSpacereset to Artemis I at normal flow
CURRENT SYSTEM
WHY PLUTO STILL COUNTS
Pluto is round, layered, atmospheric, season-bearing, and moon-bearing. That is planet-grade behavior. The IAU downgrade turned on orbital dominance, not on Pluto ceasing to be a world.
Respectfully to Neil deGrasse Tyson: the dispute is not whether Pluto is interesting. It is whether “planet” should track internal world-ness or mostly orbital context.
SOURCE LOG
- NASA/JPL Horizons API for heliocentric vectors.
- Solar System Scope textures for public planet and Milky Way maps.
- NASA: What is a Planet? for the continuing definition debate.
- AMNH Pluto card for the Tyson quote context.