The Digital Museum of Planetary Mapping houses some 2000 examples of humankind’s best attempts to map our solar system, from the earliest pre-telescope hand-drawn maps to NASA’s latest high-resolution offerings.
Examples:
400 years ago: “The oldest map available on the website is a sketch made between 1600 and 1603 of the moon’s surfaces, drawn without the aid of a telescope…”
Today: NASA, 1979:
More info:
https://planetarymapping.wordpress.com/
http://universalnewsupdate.com/travel-through-space-and-time-with-400-years-of-planetary-maps/
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