Illustrations not to scale. Spirit rover became trapped in sand after roaming Mars for six years. Spiraling Through Space. The only planet we know of with life ... and lots of it. Luna 24 was the last of many successful Luna missions. The twin ARTEMIS spacecraft study Earth’s magnetosphere. Mars Orbiter Mission, also called MOM or Mangalyaan, is India’s first mission to another planet. Genesis caught solar wind particles and crashed them back to Earth. It omits the Apollo missions, most spacecraft launched before Pioneer 10 in 1972, many Soviet moon and Venus missions and some recent microsatellites. Our solar system's planetary hot spot. The black spots formed because the craters exposed cleaner material beneath the dusty surface. Kepler tallied planets until it shut down in 2018. The comments section is closed. Only the Sun has more influence on our solar system. Parker Solar Probe skims the edge of our star. Explorer 49 was the last American mission to the moon for two decades, until Clementine in 1994. Akatsuki studies slow-spinning Venus, and launched with the IKAROS solar sail. Chandrayaan-2 studies the lunar surface. King of the planets. Hayabusa sent dust from asteroid Itokawa back to Earth in 2010. Note: This graphic includes spacecraft currently operating beyond Earth orbit, as well as many crashed or inactive spacecraft from recent decades. Amanda Barnett It communicates with Earth through the Queqiao relay satellite. Perseverance launched July 30 to roam a dry lake and release the Ingenuity helicopter. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter sniffs for methane and released the doomed Schiaparelli lander. Stardust flew past an asteroid, returned a sample from comet Wild 2 and took a second look at Tempel 1. Solar Orbiter launched in February to study the sun and its poles. Planck and WMAP probed the cosmic microwave background. Chang’e-1 mapped the moon. Postal Service issued these Exploring the Solar System commemorative stamps on July 11, 2000 in Anaheim, CA. The only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots. Pioneer 11 was first to pass Saturn in 1979, followed by Voyager 1 in 1980 and Voyager 2 in 1981. Selene followed to study the evolution of the moon. TESS hunts for planets and orbits in resonance with the moon. Venera 7 was first to land softly. Looking beyond to worlds around other stars. This sheet of five 1-dollar stamps, designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, AZ, are based on different images of the earth's sun and are the first pentagonal stamps ever issued by USPS. Deep Space 1 passed asteroid Braille in 1999 and comet Borrelly in 2001. Chang’e-2 orbited and then left for the L2 Lagrangian point. ACE studies particles from the sun and beyond. Giotto, Suisei, Sakigake, Vega 1 and Vega 2 converged on Halley’s comet in 1986. Magellan mapped the planet and plunged through its clouds. 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