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Orbit trails lengthen as time speeds up. Positions come from heliocentric JPL vectors. Planet sizes are exaggerated for readability, not for scale.
Vectors NASA/JPL Horizons
Textures Local public maps
Modes Top-down, focus, Pluto
KEYBOARD
  • T top-down solar-system view
  • P or 9 Pluto surface view toward the Sun
  • 0 Sun, 1..8 Mercury through Neptune focus, with 3 defaulting to Earth follow
  • A/Z or the up/down arrows move the camera in and out; in Artemis views use the arrows or Z so a can switch missions
  • </> narrow or widen field of view
  • + and - speed up or slow down time
  • D demo Artemis I, Artemis II, then Artemis I again, M Mars transfer, a Artemis I, Shift+A Artemis II, V Voyager 1 outbound, C closest-star perspective
  • Space reset 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.

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