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● body · ◇ mission, on the outer ring by launch date — a place in the graph, not in space · — a recorded encounter, an order and never a path

System overview · schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →

Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris. Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley). An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.

Solar System · All Worlds

The Solar System

What Atlas holds of the Solar System, read through all Seven Worlds at once: every recorded object placed only where its record places it, and joined only where a relation was recorded.

A schematic, not an ephemeris. Distances are log-compressed and discs are ranked so bodies of very different size can share one figure; nothing here is a current position and no trajectory is drawn.

15on the figure

19missions

5listed, no position

50 recorded encounters. Illustrative scale · distances compressed · planet sizes enlarged · positions computed for the served date, not live. Listed without a figure position: JPL small-body orbital elements were not importable in this environment, and no position is invented.

Bodies

Elsewhere in Atlas

Ways in · on Earth

Journeys read through Earth records. Following one opens it on this scene’s terms; nothing here is placed in the Solar System.

The last crossing
Four ports, one week, and a course that ended between two of them — where does the record stop?
Earth to another body
A launch pad in Florida and a plain on the Moon — what does it take for one place to reach another?
The road that carried more than silk
Cities strung between two empires — what moved along them besides trade?

Timeline