Solar system Artwork of the eight planets orbiting the Sun upper right as seen from the orbit of Saturn lower left The orbits of the planets are shown as blue lines Distances and sizes are not to scale In their order from the Sun the planets are Mercury Venus Earth Mars the small rocky inner planets Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune the outer gas giant planets Apart from Saturn the outer planets are at top right In August Pluto not shown became a Dwarf planet The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is seen and the Milky Way galaxy is in the background
