About This Solar System Simulator

This site is an interactive, 3D model of our solar system, built for anyone curious about the Sun and the 9 major planets that orbit it — from scorched Mercury to the icy edge of Pluto. Scroll your mouse wheel (or swipe on mobile) to travel between a wide view of deep space and a close-up view of the planets in orbit. Click on the Sun or any planet to fly in close and read its facts.

Where the data comes from

Every number on this site — temperature, day and year length, gravity, escape velocity, orbital eccentricity, distance from Earth and from the Sun — is sourced from NASA's published planetary fact sheets and mission data. Distances from Earth are given as a range rather than a single number, because Earth and every other planet are constantly moving along their own orbits, so the gap between any two planets is always changing.

How to use it

Scroll or pinch to zoom between the open universe view and the solar system.
Click the Sun or any planet to fly toward it and open its data panel.
Toggle the sound button for an ambient recording of real interstellar plasma waves captured by NASA's Voyager probes.
Click “Close” or click the same body again to return to the wide view.

Quick facts

Mercury

0.39 AU from the Sun · 0 moons

Venus

0.72 AU from the Sun · 0 moons

Earth

1.00 AU from the Sun · 1 moon

Mars

1.52 AU from the Sun · 2 moons

Jupiter

5.20 AU from the Sun · 95 moons

Saturn

9.58 AU from the Sun · 146 moons

Uranus

19.18 AU from the Sun · 28 moons

Neptune

30.07 AU from the Sun · 16 moons

Pluto

39.48 AU from the Sun · 5 moons

Built with Next.js, React Three Fiber, and Three.js. Planet and ring textures are licensed CC-BY 4.0 from Solar System Scope via Wikimedia Commons.