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Outer planets

This animation shows the motion of Mars and the remaining outer planets. You can see the tiny dot of Mars swinging round the Sun and then the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn.

At 20 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun we reach Uranus and further out still is Neptune (30 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun), the last of the major planets.




 
 
 
© Keith Gibbs and John Bourne 2016