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Прокрутите от Солнца до Нептуна в реальном масштабе, с указанием времени путешествия света по пути.
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Everything here is at true scale: sizes and distances in the same proportion. Each pixel you scroll carries you 3 000 km.
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 миллиона km since Меркурий.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 мин 5 с ago.
Earth is ahead. Watch how small home turns out to be.
Mars is still 58,8 миллиона 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 Земля.
You are 14% of the way from Mars to Церера.
Still nothing. You have crossed 53,1 миллиона km since Mars.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 мин 6 с ago.
Церера is still 79,6 миллиона 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 Церера to Юпитер.
Still nothing. You have crossed 122 миллиона km since Церера.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 мин 8 с ago.
Юпитер is still 122 миллиона km ahead.
You could line up 23 846 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Церера.
You are 10% of the way from Юпитер to Сатурн.
Still nothing. You have crossed 130 миллионов km since Юпитер.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 мин 5 с ago.
Сатурн is still 389 миллионов 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 Юпитер.
You are 70% of the way from Юпитер to Сатурн.
Still nothing. You have crossed 519 миллионов km since Юпитер.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 ч 16 мин ago.
Уран is still 1,31 миллиарда km ahead.
You could line up 20 605 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Сатурн.
You are 27% of the way from Сатурн to Уран.
Still nothing. You have crossed 525 миллионов km since Сатурн.
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 ч 3 мин ago.
Уран is still 525 миллионов km ahead.
You could line up 82 418 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Сатурн.
You are 82% of the way from Сатурн to Уран.
Still nothing. You have crossed 1,31 миллиарда km since Сатурн.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 ч 48 мин ago.
Нептун is still 1,33 миллиарда km ahead.
You could line up 34 840 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Уран.
You are 36% of the way from Уран to Нептун.
Still nothing. You have crossed 740 миллионов km since Уран.
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 ч 37 мин ago.
Нептун is still 444 миллиона km ahead.
You could line up 104 519 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Уран.
You are 91% of the way from Уран to Нептун.
Still nothing. You have crossed 129 миллионов km since Нептун.
The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 ч 24 мин ago.
The Kuiper belt: a ring of icy worlds so spread out that after Pluto, New Horizons flew close to just one of them.
Плутон is still 906 миллионов km ahead.
You could line up 50 798 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Нептун.
You are 55% of the way from Нептун to Плутон.
Still nothing. You have crossed 906 миллионов km since Нептун.
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 ч 15 мин ago.
Плутон is still 129 миллионов km ahead.
Scroll down inside the frame to fly outward, or start the autopilot below.
Journey's end
Look back. That bright star is the Sun.
Таблица данных (альтернативный текст)
| Мировой | Диаметр | Расстояние от Солнца | Время путешествия света от Солнца | px |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Меркурий | 4 879 km | 0,387 au | 3 мин 13 с | 19 303 |
| Венера | 12 104 km | 0,723 au | 6 мин 1 с | 36 070 |
| Земля | 12 742 km | 1 au | 8 мин 19 с | 49 866 |
| Mars | 6 779 km | 1,52 au | 12 мин 40 с | 75 981 |
| Церера | 939 km | 2,77 au | 23 мин 0 с | 137 907 |
| Юпитер | 139 822 km | 5,2 au | 43 мин 16 с | 259 447 |
| Сатурн | 116 464 km | 9,54 au | 1 ч 19 мин | 475 555 |
| Уран | 50 724 km | 19,2 au | 2 ч 40 мин | 956 886 |
| Нептун | 49 244 km | 30,1 au | 4 ч 10 мин | 1 499 465 |
| Плутон | 2 377 km | 39,6 au | 5 ч 29 мин | 1 974 125 |
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