Surveying the Solar System.(Brief Article)

This photo shows Neptune, currently the farthest planet from the sun. Neptune is more than 30 times as far from the sun as is Earth. In 1999, Pluto will cross Neptune's orbit. Then Pluto will remain farthest from the sun for 248 years.

To understand the vast distances between planets in our solar system, use the information on the chart at the bottom of the page to make a distance model of our solar system. Each inch will represent 1 million miles in space.

 
Travel in Space   Mercury     Venus       Earth       Mars 
 
Avarage Distance  36,000,000  67,000,000  93,000,000  141,000,000 
From Sun 
 
Scale Distance 
From Sun 
 
Travel in Space   Jupiter      Saturn       Uranus         Pluto 
 
Avarage Distance  483,000,000  886,000,000  1,783,000,000  3,666,000,000 
From Sun 
 
Scale Distance 
From Sun 
 
Travel in Space   Neptune 
 
Avarage Distance  2,792,000,000 
From Sun 
 
Scale Distance 
From Sun 
 
The planets in our solar system are very far from one another. 

* what to observe

How far from the sun and one another are the planets in our solar system?

* what you need

* ten round balloons