50 Years of Space Travel In One Beautiful Solar System Map

[tekisui]

Source: Gizmodo

Most missions through space are lonely. Solitary probes arc through the solar system, charming us with their photos and data, and eventually—quietly—fade into disrepair, or out of range. But witnessed together, they form something sublime.

National Geographic has combined mankind's nearly 200 manned and unmanned exploratory space missions into one infographic. It's not nearly to scale, and it doesn't even try to follow the actual paths of the various chunks of metal we've tossed into the ether.



interactive scrollable map: http://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/

poster size map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/sizes/o/

link: http://gizmodo.com/5380618/50-years-of-space-travel-in-one-beautiful-solar-system-map

[Fumesucker]

1. Nice, thanks for sharing.. n/t

[G_j]

2. awesome!

thanks

[blondeatlast]

3. That is gorgeous. Thanks. nt

[sailor65]

4. A Rec for what I already know

will be the coolest post today

[lunatica]

5. kick

[tekisui]

6. bump

[Razoor]

7. really nice!

thanks for sharing

[JVS]

8. Kicking space's ass since 1957!

[Bichonpups]

9. very nice thanks n/t