Space exploration
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History of exploration
Main category: History of space exploration
First outer space flights
- Model of a Russian Vostok spacecraft
- Apollo Command Service Module in lunar orbit
Exploration of the Moon
Exploration of Mercury
- Self-portrait of Curiosity rover on Mars's surface
- A MESSENGER image from 18,000 km showing a region about 500 km across (2008)
Exploration of Mars
- Surface of Mars by the Spirit rover (2004)
Exploration of the asteroids
- Asteroid 4 Vesta, imaged by the Dawn spacecraft (2011)
Deep space exploration
- This high-resolution image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, are some of the most distant galaxies to have been imaged by an optical telescope.
