SolarExplorer
Explore the planets and the Sun in a beautifully minimal, responsive layout. Click the button below to begin your journey through our cosmic neighborhood.
ExploreCosmic Discoveries
Explore mind-blowing facts about our solar system that showcase the incredible scale and wonder of space.
Light Speed Journey
Light from the Sun travels 149.6 million km to reach Earth in just 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
Stellar Scale
The Sun contains 99.86% of all mass in our solar system. You could fit 1.3 million Earths inside it.
Diamond Rain
Extreme pressure on Neptune and Uranus is thought to compress carbon into literal diamond rain.
Venusian Greenhouse
Venus maintains a surface temperature of 464°C, making it hotter than Mercury due to a runaway greenhouse effect.
Eternal Storm
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm larger than Earth that has been raging for over 350 years.
Floating Giant
Saturn's density is so low (0.687 g/cm³) that it would float in a large enough body of water.
Martian Giant
Mars is home to Olympus Mons, a shield volcano that is the tallest in the solar system, standing nearly three times the height of Mount Everest.
Cosmic Snowballs
The Oort Cloud is a theoretical massive sphere of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun, thought to be the origin of most long-period comets.
A Fractured Moon
Uranus's moon Miranda has a bizarre, patchwork surface, suggesting it may have been shattered and reassembled multiple times in its history.