HUMAN CURIOSITY, SENT FURTHER
The journeys that changed our view
Meet the spacecraft, observatories and people behind some of our most remarkable discoveries.
01NASA · 1969
Apollo 11
The first mission to land people on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.
Human exploration02NASA / ESA / ASI · 1997Cassini–Huygens
An orbiter and a lander revealed an astonishing system of rings, icy moons and a world with methane rain.
Saturn system03NASA / ESA · 1990Hubble Space Telescope
A telescope above the atmosphere that changed how we see distant galaxies and the evolving universe.
Space observatory04NASA / ESA / CSA · 2021James Webb Space Telescope
An infrared observatory looking through dusty stellar nurseries and back toward early galaxies.
Infrared astronomy05NASA / JPL · 2020Perseverance
A Mars rover investigating ancient environments and collecting carefully documented samples.
Mars exploration06NASA / JPL · 1977Voyager
Two spacecraft transformed our view of the giant planets and continued outward into interstellar space.
Outer solar systemA solar system to get to know.
SOLAR SYSTEM LABOpen the calculated sky
Earth
Our ocean-covered home world.
- Approximate orbital period
- 365.25 days
This teaching model uses circular orbits and illustrative starting angles. Sizes and distances are compressed; positions are not ephemerides. Use the sky explorer for calculated positions.