Our Planets, The Sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Our Planets, The Sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

This postcard was postmarked in 2026 from Germany.

 

Planet Mercury in 3D

Mercury - Mercure - Mercurio

Mercury, Venus, Earth and mars are depicted at 5 times the scale of the Sun and other planets.  Main planet on the A side not to scale.

This 3D postcard was bought in Finland in 2017.  

Venus, Hemispheric View

A Hemispheric View of Venus
This view of Venus is the result of over a decade of radar investigations by the Magellan spacecraft, which revealed that the planet's surface is between three hundred and six hundred million years old.

This postcard was postmarked in 2018.

Artist's Consception Venus Mapper, Magellan Spacecraft

Artist's conception shows proposed spacecraft for the Venus Mapper (VM), which would use imaging radar to see through Venus' cloud cover to map 90 percent of the planet's surface.  Partially assembled from spare parts of past and future JPL spacecraft missions like Viking, Voyager and Galileo, the VM, if authorized for a new start in 1984, would be ready for launch from NASA's Space Shuttle in 1988.  It would arrive at Venus six months later.

Official NASA Photograph

The Terrestial Planets of Our Solar System in 3-D

The Terrestrial Planets of Our Solar System

The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
They are primarily composed of rocky materials.  The Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets and the only planet to support life as we know it.

Photos:
Mercury: U.S. Geological Survey
Mars / Venus NASA / JPL
Earth: NASA Earth Observatory

Our Solar System

Our Solar System
This postcard is from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

With the exception of Pluto, spacecraft have visited all the planets in our solar system.  The groups of the inner (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) are shown in perspective size on this composite image made of spacecraft images returned from five different missions between 1974 and 1993.

Planets of Our Solar System in 3-D

The Planets of our Solar System
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury
Data: NASA
in 3D

Note:  Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars are depicted at 5 times the scale of the Sun and the other planets.  Dwarf planets like Ceres, Pluto and Eris are not shown.