A scroll through the solar system
The Sun
Every story here begins with a star. Scroll to fall away from it — past eight worlds, out to the edge of the map.
- Type
- G2V yellow dwarf
- Diameter
- 1,392,700 km
- Surface
- 5,505 °C
- Age
- 4.6 billion years
The Sun holds 99.86% of the solar system's mass and fuses about 600 million tonnes of hydrogen every second.
01 · The messenger
Mercury
Small, scorched, and in a hurry.
- Distance
- 57.9M km
- Diameter
- 4,879 km
- Year
- 88 days
- Moons
- 0
A single sunrise-to-sunrise day lasts 176 Earth days — twice as long as Mercury's year.
02 · The morning star
Venus
Beauty with a crushing secret.
- Distance
- 108.2M km
- Diameter
- 12,104 km
- Year
- 225 days
- Moons
- 0
Beneath 90 atmospheres of carbon dioxide, the surface is hot enough to melt lead — and the Sun rises in the west.
03 · The blue marble
Earth
The only address we've ever had.
- Distance
- 149.6M km
- Diameter
- 12,742 km
- Year
- 365.25 days
- Moons
- 1
Seventy-one percent ocean, one magnetic shield, and the only known life in the universe.
04 · The red planet
Mars
Rust, dust, and our next footprints.
- Distance
- 227.9M km
- Diameter
- 6,779 km
- Year
- 687 days
- Moons
- 2
Olympus Mons rises 22 km above the plains — two and a half times the height of Everest.
05 · The giant
Jupiter
The heavyweight that shields us all.
- Distance
- 778.5M km
- Diameter
- 139,820 km
- Year
- 11.9 years
- Moons
- 95
The Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth that has raged for at least three centuries.
06 · The ringed one
Saturn
The showpiece of the solar system.
- Distance
- 1.43B km
- Diameter
- 116,460 km
- Year
- 29.4 years
- Moons
- 274
The rings span 280,000 km, yet in places they are barely ten meters thick.
07 · The sideways world
Uranus
The planet that rolls through its year.
- Distance
- 2.87B km
- Diameter
- 50,724 km
- Year
- 84 years
- Moons
- 28
Knocked onto its side long ago, each pole gets 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night.
08 · The last giant
Neptune
Far, dark, and furiously windy.
- Distance
- 4.50B km
- Diameter
- 49,244 km
- Year
- 164.8 years
- Moons
- 16
Predicted by mathematics before any telescope found it, with winds that top 2,000 km/h.
One star · Eight worlds
The family portrait
From a scorched rock 58 million kilometers out, to an ice giant 4.5 billion kilometers from home — one line of light around an ordinary star.
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