Posted on 02/02/2015 3:08:58 PM PST by BenLurkin
Lined up like familiar faces in your high school yearbook, here are images of the 33 largest objects in the Solar System, ordered in size by mean radius. Engineer Radu Stoicescu put this great graphic together, using the highest resolution images available for each body. Nine of these objects have not yet been visited by a spacecraft. Later this year, we’ll visit three of them and be able to add better images of Ceres, Pluto and Charon. It might be a while until the remaining six get closeups.
“This summer, for the first time since 1989,” Stoicescu noted on reddit, “we will add 3 high resolution pictures to this collection, then, for the rest of our lives, we are not going to see anything larger than 400 km in high definition for the first time. It is sad and exciting at the same time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Every round object in the solar system under 10,000 kilometers in diameter, to scale. Montage by Emily Lakdawalla. Data from NASA / JPL and SSI, processed by Gordan Ugarkovic, Ted Stryk, Bjorn Jonsson, and Emily Lakdawalla.
Larger:
http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Solar-System-Yearbook-V2.png
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/charts/every-round-object-under-10k.html
None of us would even be one year old yet if we lived on Neptune.
Where Earth was voted- "Most Likely To Support Life…"
Thomas Jefferson missed his shot at sending a probe to pluto last time around
Neptune was discovered in 1846, so it completed one circuit of the sun since its discovery about 2011. It moves a bit over 2 degrees a year relative to the fixed stars.
Neptune was discovered in 1846, so it completed one circuit of the sun since its discovery about 2011. It moves a bit over 2 degrees a year relative to the fixed stars.
On Neptunian FreeRepublic, we are all noobs.
I’m 392 in dog years...
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