Visual map of space exploration

[agentgonzo]

National Geographic has made a really cool map of 50 years of space exploration.

Unfortunately they've embedded it in a really stupid flash thing so that you can only see a tiny postage stamp of it at a time. Fortunately someone extracted it and put it on flickr so that you can see it much more easily:

Really really cool!

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Though looking at it, it seems to imply that New Horizons enterred orbit around Jupiter, then did/will do swingbys of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - none of which it did/will do. And there's a part of the diagram in the bottom right corner where the paths of the two Voyagers and Pioneer 10 are missing.

 

[tl8]

That is pretty cool. Interesting to see that 99% of missions are to our 3 closest neighbours

 

[tblaxland]

Nice. Reminds me somewhat of Minard's 1869 Carte Figurative.

 

[dougkeenan]

That's trippy. I'd like to see a time-lapse version.

 

[Arthur Dent]

I like it

It's a candidate for my office wall. Next to the Saturn V diagram and the "The Onion" moon landing cover

 

[Wolfer]

Nice!
But I thought Mars was the planet where the most probes were sent. Well, I guess they just forgot to mention the Russians in all those documentaries I saw :lol:.