Wonder of ScienceSolar system objects to scale.
Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue
Ramin Honary@wonderofscience this video even scales rotational velocity, that is nice!
StarkRG@wonderofscience I've seen things like this before, but showing the comparative rotation rates was a nice touch. In order to be able to see Venus, Mercury, and the Moon rotating, the others would have to be a blur. Also, Venus would be going in the opposite direction to most of the others.
I AM BANKSY โ / ๐โ๐ฅ@StarkRG ah, that makes sense. I thought maybe parts of the image were tidally locked ;) @wonderofscience
@xinit @wonderofscience I'm pretty sure I can see the Moon rotate a teensy bit, but the others are probably static images. The Moon should make a full rotation for every 28ish rotations of Earth, but Mercury would take over twice as long, almost 59 Earth days, while Venus would take 243 Earth days, which is slightly longer than its year. Also, as I said, it's backwards (or upside-down, since the definitions of North and South are usually based on the direction of rotation). Venus is an odd goat.
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@wonderofscience @briankrebs itโs really something, how many Earths you could fit inside Uranus if it were empty.
Sterling@wonderofscience
That is so awesome
That is so awesome
Mastodon MigrationLove this. Really great. Also, the solar system is really big, and planets are relatively really small. If the solar system where the size of a football stadium, the Sun would be the size of a pea, and the earth the size of a speck of dust.
econads@mastodonmigration
I was expecting it to spread the planets out at the end to get a sense of the distances, but I guess you wouldn't be able to see them.
MegatronicThronBanks@wonderofscience Uranus and Neptune are so close in size. And Saturn isn't that much smaller than Jupiter.
Timo@megatronicthronbanks @wonderofscience And yet all the other planets would fit inside Jupiter. ๐ฏ
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Daniel Casanueva@wonderofscience At the end, my mind went: "Sephirot!"
Supertapani@wonderofscience I was fortunate enough to have lived in Boston, around year 2000, when there was a solar system scale model.
We cannot really picture how tiny the planets are in the vastness of space.
In that model, Sun at the center had a diameter of 3.5 meters.
Earth would be about the size of a soccer ball, 400 meters from the sun.
You'd have to drive 15km to see Pluto, which was about the size of a baseball.
Veronica Olsen@Supertapani @wonderofscience The University of Oslo used to have an Astro Festival each year. The campus is fairly long with a walkway in the middle, and they always had a line-up of planets to scale and with the correct distance, starting with the Sun at the physics building.
รlvaro G. Molinero ๐ @KimeraGupta
Zฬoรฉ@wonderofscience this made me curious so I checked: turns out Marsโ surface area is only 3% less than the total land area of Earth
not that any of that will ever make usable farmland but itโs interesting to put into relation
Luca Leonardi@wonderofscience it would be interesting to compare them without their atmosphere
Levy@wonderofscience
Jupiter's mass is bigger than the sum of all the others combined, including Saturn.
Jupiter's mass is bigger than the sum of all the others combined, including Saturn.
PIPA_jep77@wonderofscience
For God's sake..... and here a few billionaires and an orange guy think they are the rulers of the entire universe...๐
For God's sake..... and here a few billionaires and an orange guy think they are the rulers of the entire universe...๐
MinaThe spinning of Jupiter makes me all whoozy.
Our little (in comparison with the sun and the outer planets) Earth is the biggest rocky thing in the Solar System.
Barbara Monaco@wonderofscience Beautiful representation of the grandeur of our home solar system.
lonely extrovert@wonderofscience omg i read that as "objects to" as in "disagrees with" LOL๐คฃ
William B Peckham@wonderofscience Physics is Phun!
Winnie ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Selected solar system objects to scale in size, rotation speed and axial tilt
Lilly Hunter@wonderofscience Our tiny blue dot in perspective.
MemphisDaPlaya ๐ฒ๐ฒAmazing!
Uranus almost as gigantic as...
Trumpanus.