An interactive study of our solar system

There is a universe to discover.

Eight worlds. One star. A different perspective on home.

• SolThe system's only star. A 1.4-million-kilometre photosphere of boiling plasma; every orbit in the catalog is a closed fall toward this mass.
• MercuryA cratered iron world with almost no sky. The terminator is a hard line — there is nothing to scatter the light.
• VenusA world wrapped in acid cloud. The surface is inferred; what we see is weather, rotating backwards against the orbit.
• EarthThe only body in the system confirmed to hold liquid water at the surface. Continents, weather, and a thin blue limb.
• MarsA cold desert world, red with rusted iron. Home to the tallest volcano and the deepest canyon in the system.
• JupiterA hydrogen ocean with no surface. Bands shear against each other; the Great Red Spot has been a storm for centuries.
• SaturnHydrogen, helium, and a ring system of ice. The rings are metres thick and 280,000 km across.
• UranusAn ice giant rolled onto its side. The poles take turns facing the Sun for 42 years at a stretch.
• NeptuneThe last giant. Dark storms, the fastest winds in the system, and a blue that is methane, not water.

Behind the experience

Illustrative scale · orbital distances compressed. Not an ephemeris.