Beyond: Visions of the interplanetary probes by Michael Benson, Abrams, £38/$55, ISBN 0810945312 Reviewed by Hazel Muir
ON 5 March 1979, Voyager I snapped the Pele volcano erupting on Io, Jupiter’s fifth satellite (right). This is one of nearly 300 stunning pictures in Beyond, a collection of images beamed back from space over the past 40 years.
The photographs come from early pioneers such as the Mariner missions of the 1960s as well as high-tech ventures like SOHO, which is still operating today. They capture everything from rippling sand dunes defrosting in the Martian spring to dumpy little asteroids…
