Planet Collection (#3)

Pixellated Earth from space, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Pixellated Earth from space, c1980s

Earth from Apollo 15, 26 July 1971. Creator: NASA
Earth from Apollo 15, 26 July 1971. Planet Earth photographed by the Apollo 15 crew, from between 25, 000 and 30, 000 nautical miles away

Earth from space - Africa, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth from space - Africa, c1980s. Planet Earth showing Africa and part of the Middle East, with Europe at the top

Earth with Venus rising, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth with Venus rising, c1980s. The planet Venus with Earth in the foreground, seen from space

Earth from space, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: NASA
Earth from space, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Planet Earth showing the land mass of Africa, seen from the Apollo II spacecraft

India-Pakistan boundary seen from aboard the second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. The border between India and Pakistan stretches from the Arabian Sea to the foothills of the Himalayan

Earths atmosphere, view from Apollo II spacecraft, July 1969. Creator: NASA
Earths atmosphere, view from Apollo II spacecraft, July 1969. Apollo 11 was the fifth manned Apollo mission, and was the first to land on the Moon

The Himalayas between China and Tibet, seen from aboard the second Space Shuttle flight, 1981
The Himalayas between China and Tibet, seen from aboard the second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. A lake in the Himalayan mountain range

The Tibetan Plateau seen from aboard the first Space Shuttle flight, April 1981. Creator: NASA
The Tibetan Plateau seen from aboard the first Space Shuttle flight, April 1981. View of the Tibetan or Himalayan Plateau (known in China as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau or the Qing-Zang Plateau)

Baja California and the Sea of Cortes, seen from aboard the first Space Shuttle flight, April 1981. The Baja California Peninsula, a state in western Mexico, which protrudes into the Pacific Ocean

Lieut. Evans Observing An Occultation of Jupiter, 8 June 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Lieut. Evans Observing An Occultation of Jupiter, 8 June 1911, (1913). Lieutenant Edward Teddy Evans (1881-1957) using a telescope

The Giant Planet and His Great Red Spot, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

The Glory of the Sun When Eclipsed, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 1, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London, ]

Immense Eruption of a Solar Prominence 140, 000 Miles High, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume I, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

The Red Planet Studied Through The Modern Telescope, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Mercurys Eternal Night, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Mercurys Perpetual Day, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Commander Evans observing an Occulation of Jupiter, Antarctica, 1910-1912. Artist
Commander Evans observing an Occulation of Jupiter, Antarctica, 1910-1912. Edward Evans (1881-1957) was second in command of Captain Scotts Antarctic expedition of 1910-1913

Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. The Ptolemaic or geocentric model has the Earth at the centre of the Universe with all the other bodies, including the Sun, orbiting around it

Map of Christian contellations, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Map of Christian contellations, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius, published by Johannes Janssonius

The conjunction of the planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
The conjunction of the planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius, published by Johannes Janssonius

Map showing Tycho Brahes system of planetary orbits, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, (1660-1661). Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, (1660-1661). Detail from a map showing the Copernican system of planetary orbits (the Planisphaerium Copernicanum )

Map showing Tycho Brahes system of planetary orbits around the Earth, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica)

Map charting the movement of the Earth and Planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Map charting the movement of the Earth and Planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Chart describing the movement of the Planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Chart describing the movement of the Planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

An astronomer, detail from a map of the planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
An astronomer, detail from a map of the planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Four moons of Jupiter. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, 1979. Four separate pictures of these moons taken from Voyager 1

Pluto as seen from New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. Creator: NASA
Pluto as seen from New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476

An ancient storm in the Jovian atmosphere, 1999. Creator: NASA
An ancient storm in the Jovian atmosphere, 1999. The Great Red Spot in Jupiters atmosphere is a vast storm, spinning like a cyclone

Viking 2 image of Mars Utopian Plain, September 3, 1976. Creator: NASA
Viking 2 image of Mars Utopian Plain, September 3, 1976. The boulder-strewn field of red rocks reaches to the horizon nearly two miles from the Viking 2 spacecraft

Jupiter, from Planets, plate 2, 1530-70. Creator: Giulio Bonasone
Jupiter, from Planets, plate 2, 1530-70

Mercurius, from Planets, plate 6, 1530-70. Creator: Giulio Bonasone
Mercurius, from Planets, plate 6, 1530-70

Nearly full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979. Taken from Voyager this moon was named the pizza moon because of its mottled appearance

Full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979. Taken from the Voyager 1, this moon was named the pizza moon because of its mottled appearance

Jupiter and Io, one of its moons, 1979. This picture was taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 20 million kilometres. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the planets in the outer

The planet Jupiter, 1979. Taken from Voyager 1 at 20 million kilometres this pictures shows the Great Red Spot, a storm that has been raging for hundreds of years

Great Red Spot on Jupiter, 1979. Voyager 1s image of a close up of the turbulent region around the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, a storm that has been raging for hundreds of years

Copernican (heliocentric / Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1708
Copernican (heliocentric/Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1761. Illustration showing ecliptic and the orbit of the Earth and the planets

Mars, Roman god of war, 1569. Mars (Greek Ares) riding in his chariot pulled by dogs (the dogs of war). Mars was regarded as a male planet, hot and fiery

Allegorical Representation, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Allegorical Representation, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Planeten - Fig. 2. Saturn, c1902
Planeten - Fig.2. Saturn, c1902. From Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, c1902

Planeten - Fig. 1. Jupiter, c1902
Planeten - Fig.1. Jupiter, c1902. From Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, c1902

Sir Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel, German-born British astronomer and composer, 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
Sir Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel, German-born British astronomer and composer, 19th century. Herschel (1738-1822) became famous for discovering the planet Uranus

Sir William Herschel, German-born British astronomer. Artist: E Scriven
Sir William Herschel, German-born British astronomer. Holding a diagram of planets and their planetry rings. Herschel (1738-1822) constructed his own telescope after taking up astronomy as a hobby

Series of observations of the planet Saturn, 1656. These observations made by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), latinized name of the German astronomer Jan Hewel or Hewelcke

Geocentric or Earth-centred system of the universe, 1528. At the centre is the world showing Aristotles (384-323 BC) four elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, surrounded by the spheres of the Sun

Keplers explanation of the structure of the planetary system, 1619. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) used the five regular polyhedra between the spheres of the planets in the diagram of his explanation

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