University College London (UCL) has released a set of photos collected from periods throughout the history of space exploration, from the first map of the Moon's surface to the Soviet Union's missions to Venus. UCL says that these images have never been published online in high resolution before; for some of them, it's their first time on the Internet at all.

These images were collected and published as part of the Festival of the Planets and the European Planetary Science Congress 2013. They will be in a public exhibition at the congress on September 10 and 12. Very high-quality scans are available at UCL's website for the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

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