We all know rockets are fast, and space is big. But sometimes when we're talking about how long it takes for us to get to distant parts of solar system (eight months to get to Mars,are you kidding me?) It can feel like our spacecraft are just crawling along out there
This gif shows just how wrong that idea is by comparing the speed of the New horizons probe, which flew past Pluto last year, to a747 and SR-71 Blackbird.