Solar System Planet Size Comparison Chart

How to use the planet size comparison chart.

Solar system planet size comparison chart.

Discovered exoplanets each year with discovery methods as of 5 march 2020. Jupiter for example is approximately 11 times the diameter of the earth. Size comparison of solar system planets sun and some stars that are near to us and well known. It was once expected that any icy body larger than approximately 200 km in radius was likely to be in hydrostatic equilibrium he.

This site is maintained by the planetary science communications team at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory and goddard space flight center for nasa s science mission directorate. When it comes to their measurable sizes in diameter the planets vary greatly. Outward from the sun the planets are mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune followed by the dwarf planet pluto. Change between km mi in settings.

Jupiter s diameter is about 11 times that of the earth s and the sun s diameter is about 10 times jupiter s. Planetary size and distance comparison planetary size and distance comparison students use metric measurement including astronomical units au to investigate the relative size and distance of the planets in our solar system. Click on a planet or the sun for details on composition mass gravity and number of moons. You can compare them side by side or with the smaller object positioned on the surface of the larger one.

Use the buttons at the top to sort the planets by their order from the sun or by. Mercury on the other hand is 2 6 times smaller in diameter than the earth. Director nasa planetary science division. The planets in our solar system are each very unique for various reasons.

You can also zoom in and out on the planets or the sun using the plus and minus buttons. Then they use scale to model relative distance. Press the left button and move the mouse to rotate. Size of planets in order.

After you have selected two objects. List of objects by mean radius larger than 400 km. A simple way to compare the sizes of our solar system s planets the sun and the moon. According to nasa this is the estimated radii of the eight planets in our solar system in order of size we also have included the radii sizes relative to earth to help.

This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets relative to each other.