PV Gap

Jane Said:

Can any one provide me the web link to the picture of Solar system drawn to actual scale ?

We Answered:

Suppose that you draw the sun to a diameter of 1 inch (possibly 72 pixels across on your screen). Mercury's diameter is about 1/250 of the sun's, so Mercury on that scale would be 1/250 of an inch (meaning that even at 1 pixel, it's out of scale).

The earth on this scale is about 110 inches (9 feet) away from the sun and would also be represented by 1 pixel. Neptune on this scale is about 180 feet from the sun and is about 3 pixels across (maybe 10 pixels in total area). So to represent the solar system out to Neptune with both the objects and the distances to even rough scale, you'd need a picture about 360 feet wide.

If you're willing to ignore the sizes of the planets and just deal with distances, you could shrink the radius of Neptune's orbit to be about 2 feet (meaning that you'd need about a 4' by 4' area to show the entire orbit). On this scale Earth is 1 inch from the sun, with Venus and Mercury crammed inside that 1 inch.

Gene Said:

what did the early greeks picture the solar system?

We Answered:

Do you mean, HOW did they picture the solar system? You need to Google "astronomy" and "ancient Greece" and see what you come up with.

Priscilla Said:

looking for a picture of the solar system and information for a thirdgrader science project?

We Answered:

the solar system "family portrait"
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040214.…

images of individual bodies may also be found here
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod…

these pages also have descriptions of the images.

Curtis Said:

How true to reality are some pictures of our solar system and neighboring galaxies?

We Answered:

1. Virtually _every_ photograph you look at of _anything_ nowadays is "computer enhanced" to some degree.

2. Most astrophotographers go to great lengths to make the colours in their photographs as accurate as possible. The characteristic most commonly enhanced is contrast, to bring out fine detail. The detail is there in the image, it's just, well, enhanced to make it easier to see.

3 A few photographs use _false colour_ where images made in different colours of light are mapped in a special way to bring out detail not visible i the originals. Such photographs are almost always marked as "false colour."

Leo Said:

Where can I get a picture of our solar system planets to scale?

We Answered:

Can't be done. It'll be miles long if done to proper scale.

Tyler Said:

What does "The Bible" and a Picture of our "Solar System" share in common?

We Answered:

One is infinitely ridiculous and the other is infinitely infinite.

Lucy Said:

which website has a complete picture of the solar system?

We Answered:

I just typed solar system into google, then hit Images and within half a second got 17 million pictures like this one.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=ht…