Earth 3D Model – NASA Solar System Exploration
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In Depth | Earth's Moon – NASA Solar System Exploration
Earth's Moon is the only place beyond Earth where humans have set foot, so far. Earth's only natural satellite is simply called "the Moon" because people didn't know other moons existed …
Pluto By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · Pluto was once our solar system's ninth planet, but has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. It's located in the Kuiper Belt.
The Sun By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · The Sun is the star at the heart of our solar system. Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything – from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris – …
Mars By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest. It’s the only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots.
In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration
It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star. Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet.
RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · Moons About Moons BY DESTINATION Earth (1) Mars (2) Jupiter (95) Saturn (83) Uranus (27) Neptune (14) Pluto (5) Asteroids, Comets & Meteors About Asteroids, Comets & …
In Depth | 1P/Halley – NASA Solar System Exploration
Halley was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986 and was met in space by an international fleet of spacecraft. It will return in 2061 on its regular 76-year journey around the Sun.
Jupiter - NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 13, 2026 · Unlike Earth’s Moon and our planet’s northern lights, the massive, shimmering auroras above Jupiter’s poles carry signatures that the planet’s largest moons leave in the …
(One astronomical unit, or AU, is the mean distance of Earth from the Sun: about 150 million kilome-ters or 93 million miles.) More than 1,300 KBOs have been iden-tified since 1992.