Artistap impression of how the surface of Pluto might look near midday. (SwRI/Alex H. Parker)
For a brief moment during dawn and dusk every day, the sunlight on Earth matches that three billion miles away on Pluto.
Basically, it’s always Pluto Time somewhere.
It’s always #PlutoTime somewhere. (NASA)
NASA and the New Horizons team today launched a new widget that estimates when Pluto Time will hit your neck of the woods. It’s called, aptly, “Pluto Time,” and it even will remind you when to go outside to experience conditions as bright as the surface of Pluto at noon.
Pluto Time was created by the awesome planetary scientists of the .
Pluto Time in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NASA)
In perhaps one of the most delightfully nerdy sentences uttered, Alan Stern, New Horizons’ principal investigator, said Friday that his team “wrote code to figure out what time of day after sunset that the lighting will be analogous to that on Pluto.”
Check out and hashtag your Pluto Time selfie with , and share it on social media. The goal is to have worldwide participation in advance of the July 14 New Horizons fly-by of Pluto.
Get creative, have fun, maybe even pretend you’re on the surface the furthest planet in our solar system…
(Yes, I said planet. . Please accept this and all will be okay.)
It’s so easy that even people who don’t think Pluto is a planet can do it! (Screenshot)
