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“Exploration is in our nature.” - Carl Sagan

Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Every round object in the solar system, to scale (widescreen)

Every round object in the solar system, to scale (widescreen) — Every round object in the solar system, to scale (widescreen) Global views of round worlds across the solar system taken by a dozen different spacecraft. The boundary between round and not-round occurs between around 400 and 600 kilometers' diameter, depending on the composition of the world. The trans-Neptunian objects in lower right corner are represented by artworks except for Pluto and Charon. Montage © 2011 Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society. Image data courtesy NASA/JPL and JHUAPL/CIW. Image processing by Bjorn Jonsson; Mattias Malmer; Ted Stryk; Gordan Ugarkovic. TNO artwork by A. Feild (STSCI)

This montage was updated in January 2020 to include New Horizons images of Pluto and Charon.

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