Planets
A diagram of the Solar System. Choose a planet to see photographs and its moons. Distances and angles on the drawing are only a guide. They are not where the planets stand in the sky right now.
The inner orbits are stretched and the outer ones are squeezed so every body fits on one drawing.
Earth
Planet · Semi-major axis 1 AU
A rocky planet with oceans, continents, and an atmosphere that holds liquid water.
Earth
When: 2012-01-30
Photographed by: NASA
Description: Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created. This Blue Marble Earth montage shown above -- created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the new Suomi NPP satellite -- shows many stunning details of our home planet.
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