Our favourite planetoid Pluto is in the news again. The United States Postal Service has released two beautiful stamps showing the eternal pair, the New Horizon space craft, and one of its wonderful pictures of Pluto, in fact every one's Valentine picture of Pluto, with the heart shaped region, the Sputnik Planum, featuring prominently.
The USPS has added to the bonanza by releasing a set of 8 stamps each one with its own planetary member of the solar system. Pluto, which got bounced from its status as a planet, and demoted to being a dwarf planet, a while ago, has been consoled by giving it its own stamp, together with that of its intrepid explorer.
Neither planets nor planetoids have ever looked more gorgeous, albeit thanks to digital enhancement. Now that NASA and USPS have done their bit, we look forward to our own pair, ISRO and India Posts, to give us our own set of stamps from ISRO's space explorations.
This blog post is by Neelima Gupte and Sumathi Rao.
The USPS has added to the bonanza by releasing a set of 8 stamps each one with its own planetary member of the solar system. Pluto, which got bounced from its status as a planet, and demoted to being a dwarf planet, a while ago, has been consoled by giving it its own stamp, together with that of its intrepid explorer.
This blog post is by Neelima Gupte and Sumathi Rao.
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