A Beautiful Planet twisted, inverted; you can completely lose your spatial awareness about where you are and what your attitude is, and you can easily get tangled up in that safety tether if you're not cautious. Every single movement you make, you're making an effort to think [things] through." After spending almost the entire film scrutinizing the Earth and the ISS (with its astronauts) in low Earth orbit, one of the final scenes of "A Beautiful Planet" briefly examines an important extrasolar planet (a planet outside of our solar system) which was discovered in 2014. The planet, Kepler-186f, was the first approximately-Earth-sized planet
Pioneer Terra Pioneer Terra Pioneer Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Tombaugh Regio and east of Voyager Terra. It was discovered by the "New Horizons" spacecraft on 14 July 2015. It is named for the "Pioneer" program, which included "Pioneer 10" and "Pioneer 11", the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and explore Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the first to explore the outer solar system; "Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9", which formed an "interplanetary weather network"; "Pioneer 1" through "5", which explored the Moon in various ways; and the Pioneer Venus project, consisting