Watching this video makes it feel like you're exploring Pluto
Have you ever wanted to zoom billions of miles away from Earth and explore our controversial celestial-body-formerly-known-as-a-planet Pluto?
Thanks to a new 360° interactive video by The New York Times, now you can.
The video splices together images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it passed by Pluto on July 14, 2015, and is set to eerie, sparse vocal soundtrack.
Your journey starts with a flyby, revealing the dwarf planet's sweeping brown-and-red mountain ranges, as well as the large plains of ice that form Pluto's "heart." Then you touch down on a computer-generated (yet scientifically accurate) surface location at edge of the al-Idrisi mountains, which run along the heart's northwestern curve.
Take a few minutes to take it all in, but don't just sit there and watch - click, drag, and look around. It's amazing.
As the narrator points out: "You are standing where no known creature has ever stood."
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