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 miliona km since Merkury.

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 miliona 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 Ziemia.

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

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

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

Ceres is still 79,6 miliona 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 Jowisz.

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

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

Jowisz is still 122 miliony 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 Jowisz to Saturn.

Still nothing. You have crossed 130 milionów km since Jowisz.

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

Saturn is still 389 milionów 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 Jowisz.

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

Still nothing. You have crossed 519 milionów km since Jowisz.

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

Uran is still 1,31 miliarda 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 Uran.

Still nothing. You have crossed 525 milionów 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 godz. 3 min ago.

Uran is still 525 milionów 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 Uran.

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

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

Neptun is still 1,33 miliarda km ahead.

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

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

Still nothing. You have crossed 740 milionów km since Uran.

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 godz. 37 min ago.

Neptun is still 444 miliony km ahead.

You could line up 104 519 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Uran.

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

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

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 godz. 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.

Pluton is still 906 milionów 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 Pluton.

Still nothing. You have crossed 906 milionów 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 godz. 15 min ago.

Pluton is still 129 milionów km ahead.