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Family portrait of the solar system, at the scale 1 px = 1 Mm
The diameters of the objects (400+ km) are to scale. The limb of the Sun is in the background. From left to right, Mercury, Venus (radar image of the surface), the Earth (and the Moon), Mars, the four largest asteroids (1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea), Jupiter (and its galilean moons), Saturn (and Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan and Iapetus), Uranus (and Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon), Neptune (and Proteus and Triton), Pluto (and Charon). The other large trans-neptunians are not shown. The smallest objects (Mimas, Proteus, Miranda, the asteroids other than 1 Ceres) are slightly exaggerated (instead of 0.4 pixel, they occupy 1 pixel !).
Image prepared by myself from NSSDC (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/) (National Space Science Data Center) images; hereby donated to the public domain.
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