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Family Portrait - Solar Orbiting Worlds

harbingerdawn

Published: Jun 15, 2017

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Description

A family portrait of the 10 largest worlds orbiting the Sun to have been explored so far. Based on a concept by NovaSilisko.

Image sources (spacecraft; processing credit):

Mercury - MESSENGER; NASA / JHU-APL / Gordan Ugarkovic / HarbingerDawn

Venus - Mariner 10; NASA / JPL / Mattias Malmer / HarbingerDawn
Earth - DSCOVR; NASA EPIC Team / HarbingerDawn
Mars - Rosetta; ESA / MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / Gordan Ugarkovic / HarbingerDawn
Ceres - Dawn; NASA / JPL-Caltech / MPS / DLR / IDA / Daniel Macháček
Jupiter - Cassini; NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic
Saturn - Cassini; NASA / JPL / SSI
Uranus - Hubble; NASA / ESA / M. Showalter (SETI Institute) / HarbingerDawn
Neptune - Voyager 2; NASA / JPL-Caltech / Björn Jónsson
Pluto - New Horizons; NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI / Alex Parker

UPDATE - 6 February 2022: More natural color and contrast for Venus, new more natural photo of Earth.

UPDATE - 8 May 2021: Improved color of Mars.

UPDATE - 25 April 2020: Updated Mercury with a real photo with greater accuracy.

UPDATE - 12 March 2019: Updated colors of Uranus and Neptune.

UPDATE - 4 August 2018: Updated Pluto and Mars to be more natural looking.

Image size

4096x4096px 1.2 MB

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