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Relative masses of the Solar planets. Jupiter at 71% of the total and Saturn at 21% dominate the system. Relative masses of the solid bodies of the Solar System. Earth at 48% and Venus at 39% dominate. Bodies less massive than Pluto are not visible at this scale. Relative masses of the rounded moons of the Solar System.
Original – Solar system planets size comparison. Largest to smallest are pictured left to right, top to bottom: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury. Reason Though not of the minimum size required, but highly encyclopaedic illustrating the sizes of the planets with good quality Articles in which this image appears
The sizes are listed in units of Jupiter radii (R J, 71 492 km). This list is designed to include all planets that are larger than 1.7 times the size of the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter. Some well-known planets that are smaller than 1.7 R J have been included for the sake of comparison.
Thus, the Sun occupies 0.00001% (1 part in 10 7) of the volume of a sphere with a radius the size of Earth's orbit, whereas Earth's volume is roughly 1 millionth (10 −6) that of the Sun. Jupiter, the largest planet, is 5.2 AU from the Sun and has a radius of 71,000 km (0.00047 AU; 44,000 mi), whereas the most distant planet, Neptune, is 30 AU ...
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
Terrestrial planet size comparisons The four terrestrial planets of our solar system, from left to right: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars Edit 1 tripled horizontal resolution, and superimposed over the old globes the images Image:Reprocessed Mariner 10 image of Mercury.jpg Image:Venus globe.jpg Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg Image:Mars Valles Marineris.jpeg
It seems to me that the most important point to be made about planet sizes is just how small the rocky planets are relative to the gas giants (let alone the sun). Redquark 21:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC) Support What I understood was that this picture focuses mainly on the terrestrial planets, not the gas giants. In that context, I believe this ...
Sizes of the planets and stars Edit 1 Original - An illustration of the comparative sizes of planets and stars.Starting with the planet Mercury at the top left we follow a growing sequence of planets and then a growing sequence of stars until we reach the second largest known star VV Cephei in the bottom right.