The surface of… what?

I’m glad I snapped this cos I have a feeling Lawrence will soon get very tired of people pointing his error out to him and delete this. I did see him replying “typo” to a few of the commenters doing that, but, my brother in cosmology, a typo is when you go to write “Pluto” and it comes out as “Pulto” or something. When you go to write “Pluto” and it comes out as “Jupiter”, that’s… I don’t know what but I’m sure there’s a technical term for it, makes you look like a bit of a dickhead anyway…

Anyway, here’s the video he linked to:

Some prat responded to him by basically asking what purpose these photos serve and what do we learn from them. I mean… there’s a ton of stuff NASA learned from these pictures cos they’re professionals who know how to do that, but for the rest of us, isn’t it enough that the photos look amazing? That we can look at the surface of a (dwarf) planet whose very existence was only confirmed less than a century ago and that we can’t even see from here on Earth without considerable technological assistance? I find that head-spinning enough without considering the meteorology, geology, etc of the place; sometimes “beauty is truth” is indeed all ye need to know…