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English: This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows:

the Mercury image was taken by Mariner 10,
the Venus image by Magellan,
the Earth and Moon images by Galileo,
the Mars image by Mars Global Surveyor,
the Jupiter image by Cassini, and
the Saturn, Uranus and Neptune images by Voyager.
Pluto is not shown as it is no longer a planet, and no spacecraft has yet visited it when this montage was taken. The inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, and Mars) are roughly to scale to each other; the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are roughly to scale to each other. PIA 00545 is the same montage with Neptune shown larger in the foreground. Actual diameters are given below:
Sun (to photosphere) 1,392,684 km
Mercury 4,879.4 km
Venus 12,103.7 km
Earth 12,756.28 km
Moon 3,476.2 km
Mars 6,804.9 km
Jupiter 142,984 km
Saturn 120,536 km
Uranus 51,118 km
Neptune 49,528 km

Date

29 March 2001

Source

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03153

Author

NASA/JPL

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:19, 7 February 2019	4,500 × 5,600 (4.03 MB)	Kesäperuna	100% JPEG quality from full quality TIFF.
	13:55, 30 September 2006	4,500 × 5,600 (933 KB)	L.m.k	Same picture, higher resolutuion
	09:14, 6 October 2005	1,024 × 1,274 (113 KB)	Dodo	==Original caption released with image== This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Satu