The Solar System
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The Solar System

Fly through the Solar System in 3D: the Sun, all eight planets, the dwarf planets, every known moon, the asteroid and Kuiper belts, comets and the Oort cloud. Each world is drawn from NASA mission maps with its real facts, and every lesson has hands-on 3D tasks and a short quiz. Free for everyone.

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What you will learn

  1. 1. Our Solar System
  2. 2. The Sun
    • Our star12 min
    • Explore the Sun in 3D8 min
    • The Sun quiz6 min
  3. 3. Mercury and Venus
    • Mercury: the swift planet10 min
    • Explore Mercury in 3D6 min
    • Venus: Earth's scorching twin10 min
    • Explore Venus in 3D8 min
    • Mercury and Venus quiz6 min
  4. 4. Earth and the Moon
    • Earth: the living planet12 min
    • Explore Earth in 3D10 min
    • The Moon12 min
    • Explore the Moon in 3D10 min
    • The Moon's orbit6 min
    • Earth and the Moon quiz8 min
  5. 5. Mars
    • Mars: the red planet12 min
    • Explore Mars in 3D10 min
    • Phobos and Deimos6 min
    • Mars quiz6 min
  6. 6. The asteroid belt and Ceres
    • Leftovers from the beginning12 min
    • Explore the asteroid belt in 3D10 min
    • Ceres up close6 min
    • Asteroid belt quiz6 min
  7. 7. Jupiter
    • Jupiter: the giant12 min
    • Explore Jupiter in 3D8 min
    • Galileo's moons12 min
    • Jupiter's moons in 3D10 min
    • Jupiter quiz8 min
  8. 8. Saturn
    • Saturn: lord of the rings12 min
    • Explore Saturn in 3D8 min
    • Saturn's moons12 min
    • Saturn's moons in 3D10 min
    • Saturn quiz8 min
  9. 9. Uranus
    • Uranus: the tilted giant10 min
    • Explore Uranus in 3D6 min
    • Uranus's moons in 3D8 min
    • Uranus quiz6 min
  10. 10. Neptune
    • Neptune: the windy blue world10 min
    • Neptune in 3D6 min
    • Neptune's moons in 3D8 min
    • Neptune quiz6 min
  11. 11. Pluto and the Kuiper belt
    • Pluto and its family12 min
    • Explore Pluto in 3D8 min
    • Pluto and Charon6 min
    • The Kuiper belt in 3D10 min
    • Pluto and the Kuiper belt quiz8 min
  12. 12. Comets and the Oort cloud
    • Comets: dirty snowballs12 min
    • Comets and far orbits in 3D10 min
    • Comets quiz6 min
  13. 13. How we discovered the Solar System
    • From stargazing to spacecraft14 min
    • A timeline in 3D8 min
    • Discovery quiz6 min
  14. 14. Final assessment
    • Solar System final assessment15 min