Photographs from the spacecraft that have explored the Solar System, and the places and people in Britain who helped us understand it.
The SunA handle-shaped prominence erupting from the Sun, seen by SOHO.ESA/NASA/SOHOMercuryMercury photographed by MESSENGER during its first flyby.NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Carnegie Institution of WashingtonVenusA global view of Venus built from Magellan radar data, with the clouds stripped away.NASA/JPLEarthEarth, the only world known to host life.NASAMarsA daily global image of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor.NASA/JPL/MSSSJupiterJupiter imaged by the Juno spacecraft.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSSaturnSaturn and its rings, photographed by Cassini.NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteUranusUranus as seen by Voyager 2 in 1986.NASA/JPL-CaltechNeptuneNeptune's last full-planet portrait from Voyager 2.NASA/JPLThe MoonThe Moon photographed by the Galileo spacecraft as it passed Earth on its way to Jupiter.NASA/JPL/USGSEarthriseEarth rising over the Moon, photographed by Bill Anders from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968 during Apollo 8.NASA/JSCTranquility BaseBuzz Aldrin on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11 in July 1969.NASA/JSCPale Blue DotEarth is the speck in the sunbeam, photographed by Voyager 1 from about 6 billion km away in 1990.NASA/JPL-CaltechAurora from orbitAn aurora glowing beneath the International Space Station.NASA/JSCPhobosPhobos, the larger moon of Mars, photographed by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaValles MarinerisValles Marineris, a canyon system that stretches a fifth of the way around Mars, in a Viking orbiter mosaic.NASA/JPL/USGSPerseverance and IngenuityNASA's Perseverance rover takes a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter in Jezero Crater, April 2021.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSThe Great Red SpotJupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm wider than Earth, seen by the Juno spacecraft.NASA/JPLIoIo in true colour. Its yellow and red patches are sulphur from hundreds of active volcanoes.NASA/JPL/University of ArizonaEuropaEuropa's cracked ice shell, which hides a salty ocean, reprocessed from Galileo images.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI InstituteGanymedeGanymede, the largest moon in the Solar System, photographed by Juno in June 2021.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSCallistoCallisto, one of the most heavily cratered worlds known, in colour from Galileo.NASA/JPL/DLRA Splendour Seldom SeenSaturn backlit by the Sun, photographed by Cassini from the planet's shadow.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe HexagonThe six-sided jet stream around Saturn's north pole, seen in infrared by Cassini.NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteTitanTitan wrapped in its orange haze. Beneath lie seas of liquid methane.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteEnceladusEnceladus, with the blue 'tiger stripe' fractures that vent its hidden ocean into space.NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteMimasMimas and its huge crater Herschel, named after William Herschel, who discovered the moon from Slough in 1789.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteMirandaMiranda's patchwork surface of canyons and cliffs, photographed by Voyager 2 in 1986.NASA/JPL-CaltechTritonTriton's frozen surface in a Voyager 2 colour mosaic. It was discovered by the Liverpool astronomer William Lassell.NASA/JPL/USGSCeresCeres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, with bright salt deposits in Occator crater, from NASA's Dawn.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDAVestaThe giant asteroid Vesta, a protoplanet left over from the formation of the Solar System, from Dawn.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDAPlutoPluto in enhanced colour from New Horizons, with the pale heart-shaped plain Sputnik Planitia.NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research InstituteCharonPluto's largest moon, Charon, in enhanced colour, with its dark red north pole.NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research InstituteEdmond HalleyThomas Murray · sourceIsaac NewtonGodfrey Kneller · sourceJohn FlamsteedT. Gibson · sourceWilliam HerschelLemuel Francis Abbott · sourceCaroline HerschelM. F. Tielemanm · sourceJohn Couch AdamsHubert von Herkomer · sourceMary SomervilleThomas Phillips · sourceHerschel Museum of Astronomy, BathNveitch at English Wikipedia · sourceRoyal Observatory GreenwichJulian Herzog, CC BY 4.0 · sourceThe Lovell Telescope, Jodrell BankMike Peel; Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, CC BY-SA 4.0 · sourceArmagh ObservatoryCsyogi, CC BY-SA 4.0 · sourceKielder ObservatoryPhil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
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