Solar System

More NASA slop below.

Note the failure to include the price of the imaging systems, as usual.

The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows:

  • Mercury: Mariner 10,

  • Venus: Magellan,

  • Earth and Moon: Galileo,

  • Mars: Mars Global Surveyor,

  • Jupiter: Cassini, and

  • Saturn, Uranus and Neptune: Voyager.

Outer planets are shown 1/4th their actual diameters  relative to the inner planets. Actual diameters are:

  • Sun 864,000 mi./1,390,000 km

  • Mercury 3,032 mi./4,879 km

  • Venus 7,521 mi./12,104 km

  • Earth 7,926 mi./12,756 km

  • Moon 2,159 mi./3,475 km

  • Mars 4,221 mi./6,794 km

  • Jupiter 88,844 mi./142,984 km

  • Saturn 74,896 mi./120,536 km

  • Uranus 31,762 mi./51,118 km

  • Neptune 30,774 mi./49,528 km

  • Pluto 1485 mi./2,390 km

Below is a montage of planetary images taken by JPL spacecraft.
From top to bottom are images of Mercury, Venus, Earth
(and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Pluto is not included, as no spacecraft has yet visited it. 

NOT to scale.

Uranus | Sun | Satellites | Rockets

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