Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space

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Interplanetary missions

Planet / dwarf planet
Star
Asteroid / comet
Successful missions
Failed missions
Ongoing missions

* Not to scale. This graphic is a representation of every mission to a body other than the Moon. The order of planned arrival is shown by successively larger circles around the object in question. The colours indicate if the mission returned data or not. Many of the early missions to Mars and Venus failed either on the launch pad or en-route. Some spacecraft have visited multiple objects; often using flybys to reach their final destination. To reduce complexity, the only missions we have shown returning to Earth are sample-return missions; Earth flybys/gravitational assists are not included.

Visualisation based on data compiled for Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space / Stuart Lowe & Chris North