The planets in 3D
Each planet is rendered with real mission imagery wrapped onto a correctly sized globe, turning at its real rotation rate and lit from the real direction of the Sun.
Open any of them to see where that planet is right now relative to Earth, how long its light takes to reach you, and how fast it is moving along its orbit.
The planets in 3D — all 10 objects
- Earth — The only known world with liquid-water oceans at its surface — and the only one known to harbor life.
- Jupiter — More massive than every other planet combined. Its Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth that has raged…
- Mars — A cold desert world with the solar system’s tallest volcano and a canyon that would stretch across the…
- Mercury — The smallest planet and the fastest, skimming the Sun at 47 km/s. With almost no atmosphere to hold heat…
- Neptune — The first planet found by mathematics before telescopes — its gravity’s tug on Uranus gave it away.
- Pluto — A world of nitrogen glaciers and water-ice mountains, with a heart-shaped plain photographed by New Horizons…
- Saturn — The rings are mostly water ice — 280,000 km across yet often just 10 meters thick. Saturn is the least dense…
- Sun — A middle-aged yellow dwarf holding 99.86% of the solar system’s mass. Light leaving its surface now took…
- Uranus — Knocked onto its side by an ancient collision, Uranus rolls around the Sun with its poles where its equator…
- Venus — Earth’s evil twin: nearly the same size, wrapped in a crushing CO₂ atmosphere with sulfuric-acid clouds.
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