How Sci fi Shaped Exploration and Vice Versa

Few ideas are nearly as tempting as setting foot on an alien planet that can be both explored and even brought to life by technology. And as the genre of science fiction has progressed, so have our ideas of what interstellar travel and (perhaps more importantly) planetary exploration would be like. And those planets, as time has shown, have proven to be anything but static lifeless bodies rolling through space. The planets themselves just as the stories about them have changed dramatically over time even if a few specific elements remain the same.