If you missed the New Horizons Pluto flyby, here's what the whole epic approach looked like
At 7:49 a.m. EDT on Tuesday morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto. It was a moment for the history books.
But if you missed it, there's good news.
Thanks to this awesome "Eyes on the Solar System" app developed by NASA, you can watch a simulation of the historic moment based on the New Horizons programmed flight plan.
Once you download the app and launch it, you'll see a New Horizons feature in the top right corner:
In the bottom left there's a countdown window that shows how many miles and hours to go until the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto:
The live mode won't do you much good right now. But the preview mode shows the whole flyby path trajectory, complete with the latest images of Pluto and Charon. The NASA visualization team is updating them in the app as New Horizons continues to beam back more detailed images.
NASA will be live streaming Pluto coverage most of today leading up to the confirmation.
If you missed the flyby you can watch what the last eight hours of New Horizon's final approach looked like sped up into this one-minute video using the NASA app: