9 crazy things we learned about Pluto in the past year - CNET

For years, Pluto was just a blue dot in diagrams of the solar system, but very recently a more colorful view of the former planet has come together thanks to one well-traveled robot.

It's been over a year since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft first sent back images of Pluto, leading up to its dramatic fly-by in July of 2015. Data is still streaming back to Earth for analysis, adding to the more complete picture of the dwarf planet that New Horizons is painting for us.

In this gallery we've highlighted the strangest, most surprising and just plain awesome things we've leaed about Pluto in the past year. For starters, it's super hazy on Pluto. In this image about 20 haze layers are visible extending over hundreds of kilometers of the dwarf planet.