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| Viking Lander on Mars 1976 |
We humans have come a long way, evolving into a technologically advanced species. Over the past 60 years we have mastered the ability to send robotic spacecraft throughout the Solar System, getting a close up look at all of the worlds, even landing on some of them. As a young person in Los Angeles in the 1970s, I would regularly ride my bicycle to the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and pick up the latest pictures from the Solar System, from the
first landing on Mars in 1976, throughout the entire
Voyager missions and fly-bys in the late 70s through the end of the 80s. I am personally moved to watch and learn as we (NASA,
ESA, other space agencies) push the frontier and travel farther and wider in our own home solar system.
I recently recorded a podcast for the Translunar series talking about Planetary Exploration. You can listen here. And for those of you in and around Munich, Germany, I will be delivering talks in English and in German at the Volkssternwarte München on the same topic in November 2024.
NASA and the Planetary Society have amazing stories, reports and photos from these missions. If you like learning about our Solar System, you will be happy to find endless resources on their websites.
Image courtesy of NASA.
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