[OC] Aktuelle Entfernungen (erwarteter) interstellarer Raumsonden von der Sonne (lange x-Achse, daher habe ich sie in die Galerieansicht aufgeteilt)

I made this for my kids, and it’s heavily inspired by Valentina D’Efilippo’s visualizations in Britannica’s Encyclopedia Infographica. It’s long on purpose, to really accentuate the hugeness of the distance. We view it by stretching it across three monitors. I split it up to share in the gallery format, but [here’s a copy of the full-width original](https://imgur.com/a/69JXss0).

Most of this was made in Excel using a scatterplot. The space probe series uses the error bar hack to make a lollipop, which I thought paired well with the concept of probes ‘moving away’ from the solar system. The arrangement of the categorical axis is merely aesthetic.

Sources:

Spacecraft distances come from Heavens Above, an astronomy website hosted by the German space contractor of the same name together with the German Aerospace Center: [https://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEscape.aspx](https://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEscape.aspx)

Planet distances come from NASA’s planetary factsheet: [https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/](https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/)

Dwarf planet distances also come from NASA, found in the Small-Body Database: [https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html)

Let me know how I can improve this for future iterations or projects!