This chart shows the average distance of each planet in the Solar System from the Sun, measured in astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU equals the Earth-Sun distance of about 150 million kilometers. Distances range from Mercury at 0.39 AU to...
About: Planets by Average Distance from the Sun
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The Solar System's scale is wildly uneven: the four rocky planets are packed within 1.52 AU of the Sun, while the four giants are spread across a span twenty times wider. Jupiter, the nearest giant, is already more than three times farther out than Mars. The jumps grow with each step - Saturn is nearly twice Jupiter's distance, Uranus doubles Saturn's, and Neptune sits at 30 AU, thirty times the Earth-Sun distance. This spacing explains why light reaches Earth in 8 minutes but takes over 4 hours to reach Neptune, and why the Voyager probes needed 12 years to fly there. The emptiness between the outer planets is the dominant feature of our planetary neighborhood.
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Planets by Average Distance from the Sun
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Average Distance from the Sun (AU) · All Time| # | Category | All Time |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Neptune | 30.05 |
| 🥈 | Uranus | 19.20 |
| 🥉 | Saturn | 9.58 |
| 4 | Jupiter | 5.20 |
| 5 | Mars | 1.52 |
| 6 | Earth | 1 |
| 7 | Venus | 0.72 |
| 8 | Mercury | 0.39 |
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