Solar Model
The solar system is the Sun and everything that circles it: eight planets, their moons, and many asteroids and comets.
The facts
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play, in the Playground
Tap to line up the planets and watch Mercury cross the Sun.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Line up the planets | Tap | ||
| Line up | Button |
About it
The solar system is the Sun and everything that circles it: eight planets, their moons, and many asteroids and comets. All the planets go around the Sun the same way, in orbits that lie nearly in one flat plane. The inner planets go around fastest: Mercury takes 88 days, Neptune about 165 years.
This is a model, not to scale: sizes and distances are squeezed so no two planets touch. Tap it and every planet swings into one row. The model tips until you look along its plane, and Mercury passes in front of the Sun as a small dark dot, which is called a transit. Then the planets spread out again. Real transits of Mercury happen about 13 times a century.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 32,536 at Low, and up to 640,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
