Beyond the world we know is space;
a universe full of a million possibilities;
accompanying our exploration in this universe.
The silhouette of our solar system shows the orbits of the 8 planets...
...of our home system in the universe.
Today we are traveling to each of these 8 planets...
...to see the wildness of space in front of our house door.
Voyager delivered the first pictures of the planets of our solar system to earth in 1979.
Jupiter, a giant gas planet with Its deep colorful blears.
The Great red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
It was first detected in 1830.
Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter...
...and the sixth-closest to the planet.
Having a look at the tremendous ring system of Jupiter.
Ganymede is the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter...
...with a diameter greater than Planet Mercury.
Saturn’s largest moon, named Titan.
It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, Titan is primarily composed of ice and rocky material.
Another Saturn moon is Dione.
Discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684 and named after the Titaness Dione of Greek mythology.
This is Voyagers first look to the colorful rings of Saturn.
We are heading a first look to the rings of Uranus.
Uranus is the second last planet of our solar system.
Neptune is the last and farthest known planet of our solar system.
We have a look to Triton, the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune.
It was first discovered in 1846 by English astronomer William Lassell.
Triton is the only large moon in the Solar System whose orbit is in the opposite direction to its planet's rotation.
This is called a retrograde orbit.
After this short view to some highlights of our solar system,...
...we are now starting a complete journey to all planets of the solar system.
Mercury is within an equatorial radius of 2,439.7km which is considered the smallest and closest planet to our sun in the solar system.
With around 88 earth days, Mercury has the shortest orbit of all planets of the system.
Its name comes from the Roman deity, the messenger of the gods.
The second planet from sun is Venus.
Venus orbits the sun for an approximation of 225 Earth days and at a distance of 108 million km.
The planet rotates in the opposite direction (from east to west) within 243 Venus days...
...and has the longest rotation period in the solar system.
Welcome home!
Earth the third planet of our solar system and only known planet that Nurtures life.
Earth was formed over 4.5 billion years ago and is the largest of the four terrestrial planets.
According to nebular theory, earth took 10-20 million years to form.
The modern English word Earth developed from the variety of Middle English, Old English, Germanic language and proto-Germanic.
Moon was formed from material lost from Earth as an object of the size of Mars, which is named Theia, hit Earth.
Mars, the name of the Roman god of war is the fourth and the second-smallest planet of the solar system.
With a distance of 230 million kilometers to the sun and an axial tilt of 25.19 degrees, Mars is equal to Earth.
For the last 35,000 years, the orbit of Mars has been getting slightly more eccentric because of the gravitational effects of the other planets.
Mars is the last terrestrial planet in the solar system.
The dense of Mars is also lower and it got its red-orange surface from iron (III) oxide better known as rust.
In July 2005 the probes Mars express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found large quantities of water ice at the both poles.
The Phoenix lander sampled water ice in shallow Martian soil in July 31, 2008.
Mars lost its magnetosphere 4 billion years ago.
Jupiter, the fifth and largest planet of the solar system.
Its mass is two-and-a-half times of the mass of all other planets in the system combined.
Jupiter is one of two gas giants in our solar system.
Since ancient times Jupiter is known to astronomers.
Jupiter is mostly made of hydrogen; helium makes a quarter of its mass and it makes about a tenth in the number of the molecules.
The Jupiter atmosphere is signed by turbulences and storms.
The most famous storm seen before is the Great Red Spot.
Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system, has a powerful magnetosphere and 79 known moons.
This number includes the four largest so-called Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.
Jupiter’s gravitational influence helped to shape the solar system.
Jupiter was often called the solar systems vacuum cleaner,...
...because of its immense gravity well makes it a target of many bombardment of comets in the solar system.
Jupiter serves as a partial shield of the inner solar system.
The sixth planet, the second largest and the second gas giant in our solar system is Saturn.
With an average orbital speed of 9.68 km/s, Saturn takes about 29.5 years to finish one revolution around the Sun.
Twice in every Saturn year (around all 15 Earth years), the rings briefly disappear from view.
The next "disappearance" will occur in 2025.
Variations of radio emissions from the planet may result by geyser activities of Enceladus.
The Moon's water vapor emits into Saturn’s orbit.
The gas giant Saturn is mostly composed by hydrogen and helium.
His core is composed of iron-nickel and rock with compounds of silicon and oxygen.
Scientists suggesting rainfalls of diamonds within Saturn.
53 of 62 Saturn moons have formal names.
Titan, the biggest Moon, comprises more than 90% of the mass in Saturn’s orbit including the rings.
Pioneer 11 made the first flyby of Saturn in September 1979 follow by Voyager 1 in November 1980 and Voyager 2 in August 1981.
Uranus, the 7th planet in our solar system is an ice giant.
It orbits the sun every 84 earth years.
With the third-largest planetary radius and the fourth-largest planetary mass,...
...Uranus is similar to Neptune with his bulk chemical compositions.
Hydrogen and helium are the primary parts of its atmosphere but it contains more ices,...
...ammonia, methane and traces of other hydrocarbons.
With a minimum atmosphere temperature of -224 degrees Celsius Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system.
Future missions to Uranus are planned to lunch during 2020-2023 with a 13-years travel time to Uranus.
With Uranus Pathfinder, the ESA also evaluated a medium-class mission to Uranus.
Neptune, the eighth and last planet of our solar system is also the planet with the fourth-largest diameter in the system.
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a "dwarf planet" and made Neptune again to the last planet.
Named after the Roman god of the sea,...
...Neptune was the only planet in the solar system found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation.
After the calculation of Urbain Le Verrier, Johann Galle discovered Neptune with a telescope on the 23rd September 1946.
Out of our solar system, let us look to the next closed star system to ours.
The three star system Alpha Centauri with the stars Rigil Kentaurus, Toliman and Proxima Centauri.
Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman are also Named Alpha Centauri A and B.
The star system was already listed in the 2nd century star catalog of Ptolemy.
The star system is the third-brightest star in the night sky, outshone only by Sirius and Canopus.
With 4.24 light-years, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the sun.
The star system is inside the G-cloud.
In 2013, an exoplanet was found that orbits Toliman.
For manned or unmanned interstellar explorations, Alpha Centauri is likely to be the first target.
With current technology, a journey to the system would take several millennia.