The Mars Rover has been on the ground for over a decade. Here is a time lapse video which shows all of its wanderings, in eight minutes.
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Wanderers
This short video was featured as the Astronomy Picture of the Day for December 8, 2014, where you can find more information. The film is comprised of a series of visualizations of what it might be like for humans to wander the solar system. All the background features are accurate artist’s renderings of what we know about the planets and moons of the outer solar system. The imagination of the film maker inserts the humans, and the narration is Carl Sagan.
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Black Marble
The ‘Black marble’ video shows composite images of the Earth at night:
Here is a NASA application called Eyes on Exoplanets that allows you to explore the exoplanet database, including all the Kepler discoveries. (Requires a download and install to run.)
Here is a beautiful visual summary by astrophysicist Alex Parker of over 2,000 high-quality planet candidates identified by the Kepler Space Telescope, visualized as if they are orbiting a common parent star. This gives you a sense of the wide diversity in size and orbital characteristics.
Source: ESO
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) runs a set of infrared telescopes in the Atacama Desert of Chile. This array is called the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). These infrared telescopes can be configured to run like one large telescope, meaning they are capable of measuring with an angular resolution previously unavailable to astronomers. This new configuration has now resolved gaps in the protoplanetary disc of a star 450 light years away. Astronomers interpret these gaps as areas swept out by new planets. If confirmed, this would be the first such observation.
Thanks to Pablo Yanez for bringing this to my attention.