Image:Gas giants and the Sun (1 px = 1000 km).jpg

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Description

The gas giants against the Sun's limb, at 1 px = 1 Mm

The diameters are to scale. The limb of the Sun is in the background. From left to right, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Source

Image prepared by myself from NSSDC (National Space Science Data Centre) images

Date

8 August 2004

Author

Urhixidur, successive modification by Jrockley

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hereby donated to the public domain.


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History on English Wikipedia

  • (Delete all revisions of this file) (cur) 01:05, 19 August 2006 . . Jrockley (Talk | contribs | block) . . 1046×561 (30,109 bytes) (the same planets, replaced yellow circle with Image:The Sun w920607.jpg. Still to scale)
  • (del) (rev) 07:18, 8 August 2004 . . Urhixidur (Talk | contribs | block) . . 750×241 (18,858 bytes) (The gas giants against the Sun's limb, at 1 px = 1 Mm)

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