SOLAR SYSTEM TO SCALE

The image below is a photo of the exhibit poster. A text transcript follows.

Photo of the poster from the exhibit.

Poster from Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories (Copyright 2002)
This poster shows the scaled Solar System
Scaled Planets: 1 millimeter (mm) = 1000 kilometers (km)
Scaled Distance: 1 millimeter (mm) = 2,000,000 kilometers (km)
(1 AU = 1.496 x 108 km, or 1 Earth-Sun distance)

Transcription of poster from Sun to Outer Solar System:

MERCURY Distance from Sun: 0.387 AU

VENUS Distance from Sun: 0.723 AU

EARTH Distance from Sun: 1.000 AU

MARS Distance from Sun: 1.524 AU

ASTEROID BELT Distance from Sun: 2.7 AU

JUPITER Distance from Sun: 5.203 AU

SATURN Distance from Sun: 9.554 AU

URANUS Distance from Sun: 19.22 AU

NEPTUNE Distance from Sun: 30.11 AU

PLUTO Distance from Sun: 39.54 AU

IMAGE CAPTIONS

  • Selected Spacecraft in the Solar System: (spacecraft are not drawn to same scale)
    A: SOHO; B: Genesis; C: Map; D: Stardust; E: NEAR; F: Ulysses; G: Mars Odyssey; H: Mars Global Surveyor; I: Galileo
  • Selected Spacecraft Orbiting the Earth: (spacecraft are not drawn to same scale)
    A: International Space Station; B: Hubble ST; C: HETE-II; D: FUSE; E: COBE; F: Chandra; G: NAVSTAR; H: GOES-M
  • Earth-Moon Scaled Orbit: Distance between = 384,000 km
    50 centimeters (cm) = 100,000 kilometers (km)/li>
  • Kuiper Belt and the Solar System
    The solar system is traveling through the interstellar medium at 220 km/sec.
    Relative sizes of the recently discovered Kuiper belt objects compared with Pluto and Pluto's moon Charon
    Interstellar Medium, Bow Shock, Heliopause, Termination Shock, Solar Wind, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Kuiper Belt, Solar Winds, Termination Shock, Cosmic Rays, Solar System, Pluto's Orbit, Orbit of first Kuiper belt object/li>