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Fifty Years of Space Exploration

By John Farrier in Pictures, Science & Tech on Oct 13, 2009 at 9:40 am



Image: National Geographic

The above image is a selection and compression of an enormous interactive map of the almost two hundred manned and unmanned exploratory missions in our solar system over the past fifty years. It was created by graphic designers Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for National Geographic. Click on the link and use the box in the upper-right corner of the screen to choose what area you’d like to see, and zoom as needed.

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  1. OddNumber
    Oct 13th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Sweet graphic. I had no idea there have been more missions to Venus (43) than to Mars (40). I was also not expecting that we have only sent 9 missions to the sun.

    I wish they had a key for the colors though.

  2. gg
    Oct 18th, 2009 at 1:18 am

    This would be really amazing if only it was full screen!

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