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General characteristics. Astronomers sometimes divide the Solar System structure into separate regions. The inner Solar System includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the bodies in the asteroid belt. The outer Solar System includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the bodies in the Kuiper belt. [32]
A Cosmic History of the Solar System; A Tediously Accurate Map of the Solar System (web based scroll map scaled to the Moon being 1 pixel) NASA/JPL Solar System main page. NASA's Solar System Simulator; Solar System Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration
Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed relative sizes, these models were usually not built to scale.
Pre-telescope[edit] See also: Planet § History, History of astronomy, Timeline of Solar System astronomy, and Historical models of the Solar System. Map of Anaximander 's universe (circa 560 BCE) The first humans had limited understanding of the celestial bodies that could be seen in the sky.
Historical models of the Solar System. Approximate sizes of the planets relative to each other. Outward from the Sun, the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter's diameter is about 11 times that of the Earth's and the Sun's diameter is about 10 times Jupiter's.
Earth is rounded into an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light-minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution.
