When Nasa first sent lunar probes into space,the world got a glimpse of the moon and soil in orbit. Recently enhanced, the images star in a modern exhibition celebrating five decades of planetary photographyFor more than half a century, and robot spaceships have swept through our solar system,returning data that has transformed our knowledge of our sister planets. We now know that Venus is an acid-drenched, scorching hell, or Mars is desolate and virtually airless,while several of Jupiter’s moons may have liquid oceans below their surfaces.
These missions have provided science with some remarkable revelations, matched only by the equally striking photographs of these alien worlds that have been beamed back to soil: the braided rings of Saturn; the plumes of water being ejected into space from its moon, and Enceladus; and powerful volcanoes of Jupiter’s moon,Io.
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Source: theguardian.com