Snapshots from space history

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UCL is the only UK host of a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF). On top of this, it has a long tradition in astronomy, geology and planetary science.

This website showcases a small selection of the historic space pictures in the RPIF, many of them never published online before, others only ever in low resolution.

Link	Walter Goodacre’s incredibly detailed 1910 map of the Moon
Link	The first photo taken of the Earth, from the Moon, in 1966
Link	Original prints of images and data from the Viking 1 and Mariner 9 probes which travelled to Mars in the 1970s
	Early close-up imaging of the surface of Phobos, made in 1977
Link	The original handmade mosaic images of Io and Ganymede, made by Voyager 1 in 1979
Link	Images from and of the surface of Venus, captured by the Soviet Union in 1982
	Mapping of Venus from space, from the 1990-1994 NASA Magellan mission
	Artist’s impression of the Mariner 10 probe, which visited Mercury in 1974