File:Solar-system.png
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A model of the Solar System that shows sizes to scale as well as distances to scale, using distance and radius details from NASA's Solar System Exploration website. But it is critical to note that this image should not be considered a "scale model" as it does not depict both sizes and distances at the same scale. With planetary distances at this scale shown, the sizes of all of the planets and even the Sun would be less than one pixel. Another distortion needing to be clarified is that the location of the Sun would be where the surface edge of the Sun nearest to Mercury is. In order to show the Sun-Neptune distance (30 AU) to scale with the size of the Sun (0.0093 AU) at 1 pixel wide, the image has to be 6250 pixels wide. While the image shown above is 6808 pixels wide, it actually presents a Sun-Neptune distance of less than 4600 pixels because the Sun-Neptune distance, as stated above, is represented from the surface of the the Sun-sphere that is shown. So even for this image at its full width, the Sun's size if shown to scale would be only two-thirds of a pixel wide. |
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| Source | http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/ |
| Author | Dave Jarvis |
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I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of The Solar System: Full Scale Model [1]. I agree to publish that work under the free license GFDL. I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the image in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my image, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the image will not be attributed to me. I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in violation of another law such as trademark restrictions, libel, or geographically-specific restrictions. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the image may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. October 22, 2006, Dave Jarvis |
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. |
  
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| current | 13:05, 14 August 2021 | | 6,808 × 2,260 (3.86 MB) | Artem S. Tashkinov (talk | contribs) | Optimized (100% identical) |
| 20:35, 22 October 2006 |  | 6,808 × 2,260 (4.39 MB) | Thangalin (talk | contribs) | The Solar System: Full Scale Model {{Information |Description=Full scale model of the Solar System using distance and radius details from NASA's Solar System Exploration website. |Source=http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/ |Date=October 22, 2006 |Author= |
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