Popular Science | Planets As Animals - To Scale 3D Mass Comparison @popularscience | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
If Earth is a labrador dog and Venus is a human child, then gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter must also match masses with their own animals… like an African forest elephant and a herd of 7 giraffes.
You can understand the real scale of vast celestial bodies by comparing their relative sizes to animals on Earth that we’re familiar with -- and then you can see them all in 360-degree 3D animation. We’ve paired the real scale of all the planets in our solar system to a range of small and large animals worldwide, like Pluto as a tiny black rat and Mercury as a kitten -- and of course, the Sun, which by comparison to the planets has a scaled mass of 78 blue whales.
The cosmos is everywhere, all around us, all the time… it just depends on your perspective.
See you in the future!
#nasa #space #comparison #solarsystem
If Earth is a labrador dog and Venus is a human child, then gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter must also match masses with their own animals… like an African forest elephant and a herd of 7 giraffes.
You can understand the real scale of vast celestial bodies by comparing their relative sizes to animals on Earth that we’re familiar with -- and then you can see them all in 360-degree 3D animation. We’ve paired the real scale of all the planets in our solar system to a range of small and large animals worldwide, like Pluto as a tiny black rat and Mercury as a kitten -- and of course, the Sun, which by comparison to the planets has a scaled mass of 78 blue whales.
The cosmos is everywhere, all around us, all the time… it just depends on your perspective.
See you in the future!
#nasa #space #comparison #solarsystem
