Scale Walk

Keep scrolling. Every picture you have seen of the solar system squeezed this emptiness out.

Mercury is ahead, where sunlight is almost seven times stronger than on Earth.

Still nothing. You have crossed 16,8 Millionen km since Merkur.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 Min. 5 Sek. ago.

Earth is ahead. Watch how small home turns out to be.

Mars is still 58,8 Millionen km ahead.

A radio message from Earth takes between 3 and 22 minutes to reach Mars, depending on where the two planets are.

You could line up 4.611 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Erde.

You are 14% of the way from Mars to Ceres.

Still nothing. You have crossed 53,1 Millionen km since Mars.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 Min. 6 Sek. ago.

Ceres is still 79,6 Millionen km ahead.

You are inside the asteroid belt. Did you hit anything? On average the asteroids are about a million kilometres apart.

You could line up 12.497 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Mars.

You are 17% of the way from Ceres to Jupiter.

Still nothing. You have crossed 122 Millionen km since Ceres.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 Min. 8 Sek. ago.

Jupiter is still 122 Millionen km ahead.

You could line up 23.846 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Ceres.

You are 10% of the way from Jupiter to Saturn.

Still nothing. You have crossed 130 Millionen km since Jupiter.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 Min. 5 Sek. ago.

Saturn is still 389 Millionen km ahead.

Voyager 1 took about 20 months to fly from Jupiter to Saturn.

You could line up 30.529 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Jupiter.

You are 70% of the way from Jupiter to Saturn.

Still nothing. You have crossed 519 Millionen km since Jupiter.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 Std. 16 Min. ago.

Uranus is still 1,31 Milliarden km ahead.

You could line up 20.605 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Saturn.

You are 27% of the way from Saturn to Uranus.

Still nothing. You have crossed 525 Millionen km since Saturn.

Uranus orbits twice as far from the Sun as Saturn. The farther out you go, the emptier it gets.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 Std. 3 Min. ago.

Uranus is still 525 Millionen km ahead.

You could line up 82.418 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Saturn.

You are 82% of the way from Saturn to Uranus.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1,31 Milliarden km since Saturn.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 Std. 48 Min. ago.

Neptun is still 1,33 Milliarden km ahead.

You could line up 34.840 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Uranus.

You are 36% of the way from Uranus to Neptun.

Still nothing. You have crossed 740 Millionen km since Uranus.

Voyager 2 needed about three and a half years to cross this gap, from Uranus in 1986 to Neptune in 1989.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 3 Std. 37 Min. ago.

Neptun is still 444 Millionen km ahead.

You could line up 104.519 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Uranus.

You are 91% of the way from Uranus to Neptun.

Still nothing. You have crossed 129 Millionen km since Neptun.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 Std. 24 Min. ago.

The Kuiper belt: a ring of icy worlds so spread out that after Pluto, New Horizons flew close to just one of them.

Pluto is still 906 Millionen km ahead.

You could line up 50.798 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Neptun.

You are 55% of the way from Neptun to Pluto.

Still nothing. You have crossed 906 Millionen km since Neptun.

New Horizons, one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched, took nine and a half years to reach Pluto. Sunlight gets to Pluto's average distance in about five and a half hours.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 Std. 15 Min. ago.

Pluto is still 129 Millionen km ahead.