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Ok, we are about to embark on a complete tour of our solar system, but before we set off, I have a question for you... How do you want to travel?
I ask because if we were to simulate a real-time journey aboard a spacecraft... well, I'm afraid it would take us more than 50 years to chase all eight planets as they orbit, with the risk of reaching Pluto when we're already in our eighties... or worse!
So, let's settle for using our trusty and incredibly fast steed of imagination and begin our exploration from the center of it all, the Sun!
Mercury is the first planet we encounter after leaving the Sun.
Let's fly over it at a distance of 300 kilometers from the surface, and as we get closer, we have the impression of observing a fireball split in half... blazingly bright on the side facing the Sun and pitch-dark on the other.
So, let's keep our distance... and instead, let's try heading towards Venus: the planet of love, beauty, and so on. Will we have better luck?
We're sorry to disappoint you even before we arrive... It's true that Venus, being the brightest planet in Earth's sky, has been associated with beauty since ancient times. It's also true that in terms of mass and size, it can be considered a twin of Earth.
By chance! Our Earth owes all its fortune - unique among all the planets - to the fact that it has trillions of cubic meters of water freely flowing on its surface. And this is due to its orbiting at just the right distance from the Sun, right in the heart of that famous habitable zone that guarantees the existence of water in the form of ice, vapor, and liquid.
The Moon is the only natural satellite of our planet. And it is more than enough!
In fact, it is quite large compared to its parent planet, with a diameter of 3,450 km... over a quarter the diameter of Earth.
It's Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, the ultimate alien world, the scientific dream of generations of astronomers and enthusiasts alike: an icon forever ingrained in everyone's imagination. It is the second smallest planet in the solar system, with a diameter just over half that of Earth and barely double that of the Moon.
The distance from the Sun is quite variable, as the planet moves along a rather eccentric orbit, but the average is 228 million kilometers, equivalent to 12.7 light minutes.
So off we go, embarking on a rather long and challenging journey to reach Jupiter!
Long, because there is a distance of 550 million kilometers between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, which almost doubles when considering that it's difficult to travel in a straight line in a gravitational field like that of the solar system. And challenging, because we'll have to cross the asteroid belt.
We're talking about Saturn, of course!
This leg of the journey from Jupiter to Saturn will be the longest so far, but there will be even longer ones later on... So let's go! But first, some information about the planet we're about to reach...
Our next destination is Uranus, a gas giant that orbits 1.5 billion kilometers further...
Uranus is perhaps the strangest planet in the solar system.
Neptune orbits the Sun at an average distance of 4.5 billion kilometers (equivalent to 278 light minutes) and takes 164 years to complete one orbit. It is slightly smaller than Uranus, measuring 49,500 kilometers in diameter, but it is more massive than Uranus.
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00:00 Intro
6:25 Reaching Mercury
9:12 ReachingVenus
12:28 Reaching Earth
14:08 ReachingMoon
15:40 Reaching Mars
19:03 Reaching Jupiter
23:10 Reaching Saturn
29:24 Reaching Uranus
33:20 Reaching Neptune
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