Pluto Информационное агентство ТАСС
Task
The main purpose is educational. We wanted to tell the story of the discovery and study of Pluto, as well as explain the causes and consequences of its reclassification. We touched upon the issue of the Solar System scale in this special project. As a result, we consistently told the story of the study of Pluto, provided it with expert comments and illustrated our story with interactive elements.
Ideas and solutions
A multimedia educational longread about the discovery of Pluto and different reasons why its status was downgraded to that of a «dwarf planet». This special project, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the discovery of the celestial body, is divided into four chapters. Some key features of this project are infographic diagrams and schemes. In particular, you can observe an interactive timeline of people's perceptions about the Solar System since the time of Claudius Ptolemy. Another infographic portrays the estimates of the diameter and the mass of Pluto over the past century — from the hypotheses of the initiator of the search for the ninth planet to the results of the study, which was conducted thanks to the New Horizons probe. In addition, you can study the 3D model of the device itself, which was launched to Pluto in 2006, and see a diagram with the real scale of the Solar System.
