Our Planetary Neighborhood

For an image of our home planet, see Climate

The Transit of Mercury

The Sun with Mercury in front. Mercury can be seen as a dot below dead center and slightly to the right.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_transit_2.jpg
Brocken Inaglory

Transit of Venus

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012_Transit_of_Venus_from_SF.jpg

Brocken Inaglory

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Venus in front of the Sun. Venus is near the top right.

Mars True Color

Mars is slightly smaller than Venus or Earth.

ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSIRIS_Mars_true_color.jpg

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/11476/saturn-earth-comparison/

NASA

Published: December 16, 2004

Saturn with Rings

Jupiter

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collision_Leaves_Jupiter_Bruised.jpg
NASA Hubble

Uranus

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/next-generation-nasa-instrument-advanced-to-study-the-atmospheres-of-uranus-and-neptune
Credits: NASA

Neptune