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Oh, the Places We’ve Been: 21 Spacecraft Trajectories Plotted in One Picture

Monday, December 16, 2013 11:52
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One image from an infographic showing trajectories of 21 different unmanned spacecraft. Click for full image. Credit:  Kevin Gill.

One image from an infographic showing trajectories of 21 different unmanned spacecraft. Click for full image. Credit: Kevin Gill.

Want to know the orbital paths where different spacecraft have traveled and where they are now? A great new infographic put together by Kevin Gill is a visualization of where 21 different unmanned spacecraft have traveled through the Solar System. “The spacecraft data and planet orbital data is derived from NASA/JPL Horizons ephemeris,” said Gill on G+. “The image was rendered using a modified version of my Orbit Viewer WebGL application and put into infographic form using Photoshop. Body and spacecraft positions are as of December 15, 2013.”

See the full infographic below or on Kevin’s website here:
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