We've gotten used to seeing Martian landscapes, but sometimes I remember how CRAZY it is that we can see the surface of a planet that's not Earth.
Image: NASA
Image: NASA
We also have a photo of a the surface of nightmarish Venus, taken by the valiant Soviet probe Venera.
Image: Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk
Image: Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk
And most mindbogglingly, here's the surface of Titan, a moon of SATURN. We landed something on a moon a billion miles away from us, it took a photo, and sent it back to us through a billion miles of space. How do we possibly know how to do that.
Image: ESA
Image: ESA
Just cause we're on a roll.
TRUE COLOR image: NASA/JPL/Björn Jónsson
TRUE COLOR image: NASA/JPL/Björn Jónsson
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