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- In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration
While our planet is in some ways a mere speck in the vast cosmos, we have a lot of company out there It seems that we live in a universe packed with planets – a web of countless stars accompanied by families of objects, perhaps some with life of their own
- Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
- Pluto By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration
Pluto was once our solar system's ninth planet, but has been reclassified as a dwarf planet It's located in the Kuiper Belt
- Mars By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest It’s the only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots
- Jupiter - NASA Solar System Exploration
Facts About Jupiter Jupiter is the largest and oldest planet in our solar system If Jupiter was a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit inside But the "King of Planets" is no lumbering giant — Jupiter has the shortest day in the solar system, taking about 9 9 hours to spin around once on its axis
- In Depth | Triton – NASA Solar System Exploration
Like our own moon, Triton is locked in synchronous rotation with Neptune―one side faces the planet at all times But because of its unusual orbital inclination both polar regions take turns facing the Sun
- In Depth | Phobos – NASA Solar System Exploration
It orbits Mars three times a day, and is so close to the planet's surface that in some locations on Mars it cannot always be seen Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of six feet (1 8 meters) every hundred years; at that rate, it will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring
- RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration
DWARF PLANETS Pluto Ceres Makemake Haumea Eris HYPOTHETICAL Planet X Moons About Moons BY DESTINATION
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