Paseo de Escala

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 millones km since Mercurio.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 min 5 s ago.

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

Mars is still 58,8 millones 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 4611 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Tierra.

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

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

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 min 6 s ago.

Ceres is still 79,6 millones 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 Júpiter.

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

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 min 8 s ago.

Júpiter is still 122 millones 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 Júpiter to Saturno.

Still nothing. You have crossed 130 millones km since Júpiter.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 min 5 s ago.

Saturno is still 389 millones 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 Júpiter.

You are 70% of the way from Júpiter to Saturno.

Still nothing. You have crossed 519 millones km since Júpiter.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 h 16 min ago.

Urano is still 1,31 mil millones km ahead.

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

You are 27% of the way from Saturno to Urano.

Still nothing. You have crossed 525 millones km since Saturno.

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 h 3 min ago.

Urano is still 525 millones km ahead.

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

You are 82% of the way from Saturno to Urano.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1,31 mil millones km since Saturno.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 h 48 min ago.

Neptuno is still 1,33 mil millones km ahead.

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

You are 36% of the way from Urano to Neptuno.

Still nothing. You have crossed 740 millones km since Urano.

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 h 37 min ago.

Neptuno is still 444 millones km ahead.

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

You are 91% of the way from Urano to Neptuno.

Still nothing. You have crossed 129 millones km since Neptuno.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 h 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.

Plutón is still 906 millones km ahead.

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

You are 55% of the way from Neptuno to Plutón.

Still nothing. You have crossed 906 millones km since Neptuno.

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 h 15 min ago.

Plutón is still 129 millones km ahead.