ਸਕੇਲ ਵਾਕ

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 1.68 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਬੁਧ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 ਮਿੰਟ 5 ਸਕਿੰਟ ago.

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

ਮਾਰਚ is still 5.88 ਕਰੋੜ 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 ਧਰਤੀ.

You are 14% of the way from ਮਾਰਚ to ਰੇਡੀਅਸ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 5.31 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਮਾਰਚ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 ਮਿੰਟ 6 ਸਕਿੰਟ ago.

ਰੇਡੀਅਸ is still 7.96 ਕਰੋੜ 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 ਮਾਰਚ.

You are 17% of the way from ਰੇਡੀਅਸ to ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 12.2 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਰੇਡੀਅਸ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 ਮਿੰਟ 8 ਸਕਿੰਟ ago.

ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ is still 12.2 ਕਰੋੜ km ahead.

You could line up 23,846 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since ਰੇਡੀਅਸ.

You are 10% of the way from ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ to ਸ਼ਨੀ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 13 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 ਮਿੰਟ 5 ਸਕਿੰਟ ago.

ਸ਼ਨੀ is still 38.9 ਕਰੋੜ 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 ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ.

You are 70% of the way from ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ to ਸ਼ਨੀ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 51.9 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤੀ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 ਘੰਟਾ 16 ਮਿੰਟ ago.

ਯੂਰਨੀਸ is still 1.31 ਅਰਬ km ahead.

You could line up 20,605 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since ਸ਼ਨੀ.

You are 27% of the way from ਸ਼ਨੀ to ਯੂਰਨੀਸ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 52.5 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਸ਼ਨੀ.

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 ਘੰਟੇ 3 ਮਿੰਟ ago.

ਯੂਰਨੀਸ is still 52.5 ਕਰੋੜ km ahead.

You could line up 82,418 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since ਸ਼ਨੀ.

You are 82% of the way from ਸ਼ਨੀ to ਯੂਰਨੀਸ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1.31 ਅਰਬ km since ਸ਼ਨੀ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 ਘੰਟੇ 48 ਮਿੰਟ ago.

ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ is still 1.33 ਅਰਬ km ahead.

You could line up 34,840 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since ਯੂਰਨੀਸ.

You are 36% of the way from ਯੂਰਨੀਸ to ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 74 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਯੂਰਨੀਸ.

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 ਘੰਟੇ 37 ਮਿੰਟ ago.

ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ is still 44.4 ਕਰੋੜ km ahead.

You could line up 1,04,519 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since ਯੂਰਨੀਸ.

You are 91% of the way from ਯੂਰਨੀਸ to ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 12.9 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 ਘੰਟੇ 24 ਮਿੰਟ ago.

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

ਪਲਾਊਟੋ is still 90.6 ਕਰੋੜ km ahead.

You could line up 50,798 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ.

You are 55% of the way from ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ to ਪਲਾਊਟੋ.

Still nothing. You have crossed 90.6 ਕਰੋੜ km since ਨਿਊਟਰਾਨ.

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 ਘੰਟੇ 15 ਮਿੰਟ ago.

ਪਲਾਊਟੋ is still 12.9 ਕਰੋੜ km ahead.