Solar System Montage

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This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by theJet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top tobottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus and Neptune. The inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, and Mars) are roughly toscale to each other; the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, andNeptune) are roughly to scale to each other. Two other versions of thismontage exist,PIA01341 and PIA00545, which include data from earlier missions. Actual diameters are givenbelow:Sun 1,390,000 km,Mercury 4,879 km,Venus 12,104 km, Earth 12,756 km, Moon 3,475 km, Mars 6,794 km, Jupiter 142.984 km, Saturn 120,536 km, Uranus 51,118 km, Neptune 49,528 km, Pluto 2,390 km Posted on: 26 Sep, 2003

• Mariner 4 -- Mars
• Mariner 6 & 7 -- Mars
• Mariner 9 -- Mars
• Mariner 10 -- Mercury
• Viking to Mars
• Magellan to Venus
• Mars Pathfinder
• Deep Space 1
• Mars Climate Orbiter
• Mars Polar Lander
• Sputnik
• Explorer
• Vanguard
• Cassini/Huygens Mission
• Clementine Moon Mapping
• Galileo
• Genesis
• Giotto ESA
• Lunar Orbiter
• Lunar Prospector
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Mars 2001 Odyssey
• Mars 96 (Russian)
• NEAR
• Nozomi to Mars (JAPAN)
• Mars Phobos (Russian)
• Pioneer to Venus
• Pioneer 10
• Pioneer 11
• Ranger Lunar Mission
• Sakigake Comet Halley
• Suisei Comet Halley
• Surveyor Moon Mapping
• Ulysses
• Vega 1 (Russia)
• Vega 2 (Russia)
• Venera to Venus (Russian)
• Voyager
• Zond Soviet Lunar Missions
• Mars Exploration Rover - Spirit
• Mars Exploration Rover - Opportunity
• Mars Express
• Mars Rovers - Artwork
• Mars Rovers - Spacecraft
• Deep Impact
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Stardust
• Venus Express
• STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (HiRISE)
• New Horizons
• STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) 3-D Sun Images
• MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
• MESSENGER
• MODIS Image Of The Day Archive
• Phoenix Mars Lander
• Chandrayaan-1

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