Then and Now: Our Earliest Close-Ups of the Planets Compared to Today's Best Shots

For centuries, astronomers were limited to ground-based observations of the planets, but now we use spacecraft to capture close-up views of our neighboring worlds. Excitingly, our views of solar system planets have been getting progressively better over the decades, as these images attest.

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