"a trip around our solar system"

In our last day in Moscow, F and I went to the Space Museum. In it you can find all sorts of cosmonautic memorabilia: from the first dogs that came back from the space alive (stuffed) to models of the Soyuz spaceship to which you can take a look inside. This museum puts together very nicely the effort of many people: from scientists to technicians, and maybe even politicians throughout these decades. The achievements have been amazing and proof of that is this breathtaking post of Alan Taylor for The Atlantic in his section, "In Focus":

A Trip Around Our Solar System: "

Robotic probes launched by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and others are gathering information for us right now all across the solar system. We currently have spacecraft in orbit around the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn; several others on their way to smaller bodies; and a few on their way out of the solar system entirely. On Mars, a rover called Spirit has just been officially left for dead, after two years of radio silence from it -- but its twin, Opportunity, continues on its mission, now more than 2,500 days beyond its originally planned 90-days. With all these eyes in the sky, I'd like to take the opportunity to put together a photo album of our Solar system -- a set of family portraits, of sorts -- as seen by our astronauts and mechanical emissaries. [38 photos]

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite captures an image of the Earth's moon crossing in front of the Sun, on May 3, 2011. (NASA/GSFC/SDO) 

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