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English: The inner Solar System, from the Sun to Jupiter. Also includes the asteroid belt (the white donut-shaped cloud), the Hildas (the orange "triangle" just inside the orbit of Jupiter), the Jupiter trojans (green), and the near-Earth asteroids.
A composite image of Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System. This image was created from black-and-white imagery from the USGS's Mars Global Digital Image Mosaic and color imagery acquired from the 1978 visit of Viking 1.
English: This 10 billion to 1 scale model of the Solar system can be placed into hallways of most school buildings. The inner solar system can be placed inside, while some or all of the the outer planets are typically placed outside, with Neptune at a distance of 450 meters from the Sun. Students can copy the drawings by hand on index cards or cut them out and glue or tape to the cards.
Artists representation of the solar system with grid plane (not to scale) Image:Solar sys.jpg with Pluto removed to show only "Classic" planets This is an improved image, removing Pluto. This is my first nomination for any featured object on Wikipedia, so I hope I do this correctly.
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32 of those are found around the world, and 9 are among celestial bodies in the Solar System. This image is a combined world map and Solar System map showing the places where each of these 41 element names are connected to. If an element is named for an entire country, that country is represented with solid color.
The Sun in true white color. The Sun is the Solar System's star and by far its most massive component. Its large mass (332,900 Earth masses), [75] which comprises 99.86% of all the mass in the Solar System, [76] produces temperatures and densities in its core high enough to sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. [77]