From size to mass to density and more, each world in our Solar System is unique. When we compare them, the results are truly shocking.
Within our Solar System, it’s hard to appreciate just how big, massive, and well-separated our planets, moons, asteroids, and more are.
These 5 counterintuitive facts can help put things in perspective.
1.) Earth is more massive than all the other rocky planets, combined.
Adding together:
- Mercury,
- Venus,
- Mars,
- the Moon,
- plus the asteroid and Kuiper belts,