A Solar System Photo Gallery

• The inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and their moons

• Asteroids, Earth-approaching

• Asteroids, main belt and others

• Jupiter and its moons

• Saturn and its moons

• Uranus and its moons

• Neptune and its moons

• Pluto, Charon, and comets

The above pages collect an illustrative image of each planet, satellite, and minor body in the solar system that has been imaged to date. As much as possible, the images selected are visible light true color (or visible black and white), although in most cases the images are contrast enhanced and adjusted in brightness.

This compilation includes images of 79 objects: 8 planets, 2 dwarf planets, 44 planetary satellites, 1 dwarf planet satellite, 18 asteroids, 2 asteroid satellites, and 4 comet nuclei.

Copyright © 2003-2006, 2011 by Wm. Robert Johnston. All rights reserved.
Last modified 15 August 2011.
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