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Solar system information in json format. Distances and speeds are in km and km/hour.
{
"scale": 0.00000000938,
"speedOfLight": 299792458,
"sun": {
"name": "The Sun",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-sun-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "It is now about the size of a hot air balloon. Use the address input above to move it all to a location you are more familiar with. You can also drag around the Sun's map icon.<br /> <a href=\"https://free3d.com/3d-model/hot-air-balloon-54348.html\" style=\"font-size: 10px\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air Balloon Courtesy Of Iridesium</a>",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/thesun.png",
"didYouKnow": "The color of the Sun in space is actually mostly white, not yellow or orange. The reason it appears yellow or orange on Earth is due to atmospheric scattering, especially when it is low in the sky."
},
"radius": 695508000,
"distanceFromSun": 0
},
"planets": [
{
"name": "Mercury",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-mercury-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "The smallest and innermost planet is now only {{scaledDiameter}} wide and is {{scaledDistance}} from the sun. It's new scaled size is only a little bit bigger than a golf ball.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/mercury.png",
"didYouKnow": "Mercury is actually smaller than some moons of our solar system including Ganymede of Jupiter and Titan of Saturn."
},
"distanceFromSun": 57900000000,
"radius": 2439000
},
{
"name": "Venus",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-venus-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "The second brightest natural object in the sky after the moon, Venus is {{scaledDiameter}} in diameter which is now about half the size of a soccer ball and sits {{scaledDistance}} from The Sun.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/venus.png",
"didYouKnow": "While having the second hottest surface temperature in the solar system after The Sun, which is 450C (842F), its atmosphere is so dense that it actually crushes CO2 at the surface and turns it into an exotic material called \"super critical fluid\" which is neither a gas or a liquid but has properties of both. Humans could never live on the surface of Venus but some have proposed living <a href=\"http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus\" target=\"_blank\">up in the clouds.</a>"
},
"distanceFromSun": 108200000000,
"radius": 6051000
},
{
"name": "Earth",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-earth-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "Our beautiful <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pvxKdvuwIw\" target=\"_blank\">Pale Blue Dot</a> is only a little bit larger than Venus. Coming in at {{scaledDiameter}} wide it is about half the size of a soccer ball and is {{scaledDistance}} from The Sun.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/earth.png",
"didYouKnow": "Earth's first line of defense against harmful radiation from The Sun is its magnetosphere which extends much further out than the atmosphere. However, the magnetosphere is not perfectly round. On the north and south poles it plunges back down to the Earth making a funnel shape. Occasionally charged particles from The Sun will get trapped in the funnel and fall down to Earth and interact with our atmosphere. This is what causes the visual phenomenon called an <a href =\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora\" target =\"_blank\">aurora</a> or northern lights."
},
"distanceFromSun": 149600000000,
"radius": 6371000,
"moons": [
{
"radius": 1738000,
"name": "The Moon",
"distanceFromPlanet": 384400000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-moon-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "Our Moon is now around {{scaledDiameter}} wide which is about half the size of a pool ball. It orbits around the Earth from a distance of about {{scaledMoonDistance}}.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "assets/images/comparisons/moon.png"
}
}
]
},
{
"name": "Mars",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-mars-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "The fourth planet from the sun is now scaled down to {{scaledDiameter}} wide which is just a little larger than a pool ball. It now orbits The Sun at a distance of {{scaledDistance}}.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/mars.png",
"didYouKnow": "The largest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is found in the western hemisphere of Mars. It is two and a half times as tall as Mount Everest and is classified as a dormant shield volcano."
},
"distanceFromSun": 227900000000,
"radius": 3389000,
"moons": [
{
"radius": 4000,
"name": "Deimos",
"distanceFromPlanet": 23460000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"radius": 12000,
"name": "Phobos",
"distanceFromPlanet": 9270000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
}
]
},
{
"name": "Jupiter",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-jupiter-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "At {{scaledDiameter}} wide Jupiter is about as tall as an average eight year old child. Jupiter is orbiting The Sun from {{scaledDistance}} away.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/jupiter.png",
"didYouKnow": "NASA's observational satellite Juno was designed to get up close to the planet Jupiter to make detailed observations and take <a href =\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/index.html\" target =\" _blank\">high quality pictures</a> of the surface. Juno's orbit is highly elliptical because, in order to preserve the equipment and allow time to transmit the information back to Earth, it must minimize the amount of time it spends inside of Jupiter's intense radiation fields."
},
"distanceFromSun": 778300000000,
"radius": 69911000,
"moons": [
{
"name": "Io",
"radius": 1818100,
"distanceFromPlanet": 421800000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Europa",
"radius": 1560700,
"distanceFromPlanet": 671100000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Ganymede",
"radius": 2634100,
"distanceFromPlanet": 1070000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Callisto",
"radius": 2408400,
"distanceFromPlanet": 1882000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Amalthea",
"radius": 83450,
"distanceFromPlanet": 181400000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Himalia",
"radius": 67000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 11461000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Elara",
"radius": 43000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 11741000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Pasiphae",
"radius": 30000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 23624000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Sinope",
"radius": 19000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 23939000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Lysithea",
"radius": 18000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 11717000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Carme",
"radius": 23000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 23404000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Ananke",
"radius": 14000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 21276000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Leda",
"radius": 10000,
"distanceFromPlanet": 11165000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
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"name": "Thebe",
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Metis",
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"distanceFromPlanet": 128000000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Callirrhoe",
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Themisto",
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Megaclite",
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Chaldene",
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "Harpalyke",
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
{
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
{
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
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"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
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}
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}
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}
},
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}
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}
},
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}
},
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}
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}
},
{
"name": "Mneme",
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}
},
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"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
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}
},
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}
},
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}
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
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}
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{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
"name": "S/2017 J 1",
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"distanceFromPlanet": 23483000,
"mapData": {
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"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
"name": "S/2003 J 3",
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"mapData": {
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}
},
{
"name": "S/2003 J 2",
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
"name": "S/2003 J 10",
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}
},
{
"name": "S/2003 J 12",
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}
},
{
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}
},
{
"name": "S/2003 J 19",
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}
},
{
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"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
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"mapData": {
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"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
}
]
},
{
"name": "Saturn",
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-saturn-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "From here Saturn is {{scaledDiameter}} wide which is about as tall as an average five year old child. It orbits The Sun from {{scaledDistance}} away.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/saturn.png",
"didYouKnow": "While scientists have yet to prove the exact origin of Saturn's rings there are two competing hypothesis. One is that the rings were formed by a moon that was either crushed by Saturn's gravity or destroyed by some other means. The other hypothesisis that the rings are the leftover remnants of the nebular material from which our solar system was formed."
},
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"radius": 58232000,
"moons": [
{
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"distanceFromPlanet": 185540000,
"mapData": {
"iconUrl": "assets/map/map-icon-no-image.png",
"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
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"mapData": {
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"infoWindowContent": "{{scaledDiameter}}"
}
},
{
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"mapData": {
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}
},
{
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"mapData": {
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}
},
{
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},
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]
}
],
"dwarfPlanets": [
{
"name": "Pluto",
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"iconUrl": "/assets/map/map-icon-pluto-new.png",
"infoWindowContent": "Former planet Pluto is now {{scaledDiameter}} wide and orbits The Sun from about {{scaledDistance}} away.",
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/pluto.png",
"didYouKnow": "Pluto, which has roughly the same surface area as Russia, has been <a href =\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-top-10-pluto-pics\" target =\" _blank\">photographed in detail</a> only recently in July of 2015 by New Horizons. Before then the only images we had of Pluto were very low resolution and blurry."
},
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}
],
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{
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"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/voyager1.jpg",
"infoWindowContent": "Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, was one of two satellites sent on a <a href =\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program\" target =\" _blank\">Grand Tour</a> of the outer planets of our solar system. On August 25th, 2012 Voyager 1 became the first man made object to exit our solar system. In our scaled model it is currently {{scaledDistance}} away from the sun and traveling at a rate of {{scaledSpeed}}. Its communication dish is about 34 nanometers wide which is roughly 1 / 3000th the width of a human hair.",
"didYouKnow": "On February 14th, 1990 the Voyager 1 satellite was on its way out of the solar system. At the request of of astronomer, author, and public figure Carl Sagan the satellite was commanded to turn around and take one last picture of the Earth. What came back was a picture of a tiny blue dot floating in a giant cosmic ocean, referred to as the Pale Blue Dot photograph. Sagan was moved by the significance of this picture and it inspired him to write <a href =\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pvxKdvuwIw\" target =\" _blank\"> these words.</a>"
},
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}
],
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{
"name": "Proxima Centauri",
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"iconUrl": null,
"infoWindowImageUrl": "/assets/images/comparisons/earth-moon-sun-proxima.png",
"infoWindowContent": "The Sun's closest neighbor is a whopping {{scaledDistance}} away from The Sun. It can't even be placed on this map because that is about the same distance as the actual distance between the Earth and the Moon.",
"didYouKnow": "The fastest speed a man made object has achieved so far is 58,536 km/h by New Horizons. If we scale that down to our model that is only traveling around 13 meters per day. Now imagine how long it would take to go to the actual Moon traveling at 13 meters per day. This is why interstellar travel is not likely with our existing technology."
}
}
]
}
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