After three years and around 14.5 billion kilometres, the icy dwarf planet known as Pluto has finally gotten its goddamn act together and begun showing itself off on Instagram, via its good buddy, NASA.
#AboutTime #IcyDwarfPlanetGoals
The below photo, the most detailed image ever captured of Pluto, shows the result of the New Horizons space craft’s closest approach to the planet. It was taken from around 12,500ks up, or three times the distance from Sydney to Perth. It has 293k likes:
By comparison this one from Kendall Jenner‘s recent Fendi shoot, posted around the same time as the Pluto pics, has racked up 953k likes and counting:
The historic images shared by NASA document the first ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. The below is the first time humanity has ever laid eyes on the surface of Pluto, from a distance of four million kilometres. It has 121k likes:
Here’s an image of Kendall Jenner’s recent Calvin Klein campaign, which brought in an instant 1.2 million likes when it was posted a few days back:
NICE TRY, PLUTO, BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE AS POPULAR AS KENDALL. The human race’s priorities are sorted, thank you very much.
In related news, space internet is apparently even worse than Australia’s. Per an NBC News report:
Ninety-nine percent of all the data from the encounter will be stored on solid-state recorders for transmission back to Earth over the course of 16 months … The transmission rate is expected to be 2,000 bits per second, which is slower than the modems that hooked up to the Internet 20 years ago. That rate is so slow because the data stream has to travel so far, from a plutonium-powered spacecraft that has only 200 watts of electricity at its disposal.
If nothing else, this mission to Pluto has taught taught us that there is a place where it takes even longer to download Game Of Thrones than the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
