Solar System Journey of the Planets

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A space flight from Neptune to the Sun in 8,5 minutes. 31 times the speed of light.
All the planets (and distances) are to scale and aligned to make it a straight, linear journey.

There's 1min35 seconds between Neptune and Uranus. At 5 minutes you pass Saturn (the rings are too thin to be visible). Jupiter at 6,30.
The four inner planets swish by in the last 30seconds.

So why should you sit and watch the first 5-6 minutes of wide open space?
Well I think it is a great way to take a break, to sit and wonder about the large scale of things, and perhaps put some of your little annoying everyday problems in the proper perspective.
I guess most things feel trivial if you could see things from a different view, and always be prepared to learn new things.

I have made the sun and the planets to scale. The distances are a scale of the approximate median distance to the sun. Facts taken from wikipedia. ( i know that the different orbits are not perfectly round or flat)
(and I know that there are other stuff in space that really isn't planets)

I really want to clarify this, because I just watched a dozen of similar "Solar Systems" here, that were not to scale, and some have put the planets in wrong order or position. And some have chosen to include items that are not planets. (How can you start with Jupiter and then follow with our moon?)

The things I know I could have worked more on is the individual rotations of the planets surfaces. and also the stars is just random scattered light dots, I wish there were some possibilities to show the speed.
But hey, I used pretty rough jpg-setting to make the film relatively small.
And the speed that was needed to pass close to everybody, so details isn't really that visible anyway.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Space
• Solar
• System
• Planets
• Journey
• Trip
• Tellus
• CGI
• Blender
• animation
• experimental

[beeDUB75]

so this is roughly 31 times the speed of light we are travelling at here

[JohanLatki]

I haven't calculated it like that . but if it is your rough estimate, i will take you on your word. Sounds abstract, and strange... those distances and speed and the sheer volume of dark space

[alimalpak]

Good job! I appreciate instructional videos that actually show some intellect as opposed to all the junk that is found on youtube

[wfly81]

@JohanLatki Yea, roughly 8 1/2 minutes vs 4 1/4 hours.

[stampede122]

@djmcpingu yea...... bet most people, including myself, is very annoyed with it

[djmcpingu]

uranus.....ur anus (yeah...that was stupid joke)

[MrsBlindStudios]

If all your planets are lined up that makes this the year 2012.. O.o

[MrsBlindStudios]

@beeDUB75 precisely its 30.047899762224538082406591286­277 times the speed of light.. Im really bored.. xD

[jhmoonman]

Different. /:-).  

[hippypower69]

what the fuck was that UF fukn O man sure it was it sure was man

[mung0jerry]

But then, I reckon you have to show something to indicate movement through the void b/w the planets and not just a static black screen ;).

[mung0jerry]

Very cool anim, otherwise, but if those points of light represent stars they'd not look like they're being "passed by" would they? They're way too far away from anywhere in the solar system. Ergo, I'd think that the stars seen ahead in the direction of travel as shown here would still be seen as relatively stationary points of light?

After all, even at the speed of light it would still take 4.2 YEARS to get to the nearest star Proxima Centauri at 3.97x10¹³ km.

[FeynmanMH42]

@HapinasuSuikun (continued) reflect the light of their parent star. Planets travel round stars, and all the planets in the Solar System travel round the Sun, which is the only star in the Solar System.

All the other stars are much, MUCH further than any of the planets or anything else in the Solar System. The nearest star outside our Solar System, Proxima Centauri, is over 7000 times further than Neptune!