The history of animation goes back even farther than Mickey Mouse and steamboats, but they’ve entered a completely new era of interactivity thanks to HTML5, jQuery, and Javascript.

This theory is difficult to understand, for while the flat retro design calls to mind some of the hipper cartoons of the ’50s, the script does not exactlyblossom, bubble or buttercup with wit.

The wild and immense scale of the planets, with their inhospitable but awe-inspiring climates, are better understood through this animated tutorial from German design trio Kurzgesagt.