Solar System Almanac
A wikipedia-style demo: an almanac of planets, moons, and the missions that visited them, as linked articles.
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Saturn
The gas giant whose rings would span most of the Earth-Moon distance.
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Jupiter
More massive than every other planet combined, with a storm older than any nation.
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Pluto
The dwarf planet that turned out to have mountains of water ice and a heart-shaped glacier.
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Neptune
The windiest world in the solar system, found by arithmetic before telescopes.
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Mercury
The smallest planet: airless, cratered, and swinging 600 degrees between noon and midnight.
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New Horizons
Nine years to Pluto for one unrepeatable flyby.
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Voyager 2
The only spacecraft to visit all four giant planets — still calling home from interstellar space.
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Apollo 11
The first crewed landing on another world.
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Cassini
Thirteen years orbiting Saturn, ending in a deliberate dive into the planet it studied.
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Perseverance
A rover caching rock samples for a return trip nobody has scheduled yet.