How do Spacecraft Photograph the Planets & get the Images Back to Earth?

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Ever wondered how we can take those amazing images of the planets from spacecraft and get them back to earth for scientific study and just to see what they really look like.
Well in this video we do just that and see how they developed and some of the challenges they have to solve in order to do so.

This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid

Presented by
Paul Shillito

Written & Researched
By Paul Shillito

Images and Footage
NASA, ESA, RosCosMos, historicspacecraft.com, Richard Kruse