Exploring the Planets

1979 - Permanent

Museum: Air and Space Museum

Location: Gallery 207, 2nd Floor, West Wing

This exhibition highlights the history and achievements of planetary exploration, both Earth-based and by spacecraft.

Highlights include:

Voyager: full-scale replica of the spacecraft that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the 1970s and 1980s
A Piece of Mars? A meteorite fragment discovered in Antarctica in 1979 and thought to be from Mars (placed on view 6/16/1990)
Surveyor 3 television camera: retrieved from the surface of the Moon by the Apollo 12 astronauts
Mars Exploration Rover

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