Solar System Video - The Best Planet Video for Educational Purposes

Solar System Video showing the 8 planets of the Solar System orbiting the Sun. As we move out from Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, towards the gas giant planets of the outer Solar System, each of the planets take longer to orbit the sun.

This video "How big is the Universe?" will blow your mind!

The planets in order of size are;

Mercury
Mars
Venus
Earth
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter

When listed in terms of distance from the Sun, the order is as follows;

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune.

All of the planets orbit the Sun in an anti-clockwise direction. Most also rotate on their axis in an anti-clockwise direction. The exceptions to this rule are;

Uranus - Which rotates on it's end like a bowling ball

Venus - Which rotates clockwise, but very slowly.

Venus rotates so slowly that a day on planet Venus is longer than a year!

The planet with the fastest rotation in Jupiter, which rotates every 10 hours. So fast that it causes the planet to flatten out a little.

In this Solar System video, the distance between the planets is not to scale. In the real Solar System the distances are vast.

The size of the planets in this Solar System video is also just an indication of their relative size. In reality Jupiter is many more times the size of the Earth.

The planets would also not create shadows on each other as they do in this video.

Other bodies that exist in the Solar System but are not included in this Solar System video include, The Dwarf Planets (of which Pluto is one), The asteroid belt (which sits between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter), and the Ort Cloud (which sits beyond the orbit of Neptune)

I hope you find this Solar System useful. Feel free to use it for educational purposes in your classroom when teaching kids about the Solar System.

[Foreverne]

This is oddly relaxing yet terrifying at the same time.

[Gamerlife-cvtn]

I've always been extremely attracted to the solar system. The universe is so fascinating that I could never get bored of it. I've been wishing to travel in space since I was 8 or 9 years old, as soon as I found out that planets exist. I am 28 now, and I still have that dream, and I still hope that one day I will do it. Knowledge and thinking are the most precious gift of humanity, and getting to know the universe is beyond anything that a human can dream of.

[MrYohan]

I spent almost 3 minutes watching hundreds of years passing by.

[tsqgmne]

We haven't seen this video since Primary School. It's been seven years since we last watched this video. And still to this day, it's amazing. Keep up the good work.

[mengdi]

This video is exactly what I wanted! I have searched and most have talkings in it. This really gives a clear and nice memory of how the Solar System works.

[elijaguy]

Very good sound. I remember from my spaceX trip this soundtrack all around me, and am delighted to hear it so faithfully reproduced here.

[elbowtoe]

🌺اَللّٰه اَكْبَرْ 🌺 🌺اَللّٰه اَكْبَرْ 🌺 🌺اَللّٰه اَكْبَرْ 🌺

[narrash_a]

It would be nice to correct the information about the directions of planets' rotations, since it seems a lot of people use this video for educational purposes. Venus rotates on its axes backwards and Uranus spins on its side. Good video overall!

[fsadek]

The time direction switches at around 1:40, when we start following Earth. You can tell by the shape of Earth's continents that we are always looking "down" from north pole, and before 1:40, orbits and rotations are counterclockwise, after 1:40 they are clockwise. Aside from this oversight, very cool video!

[blm]

Im pretty sure Uranus and Venus are in retrograde motion relative to the sun

[utubemtk]

BACKWARDS? Brilliant video, love how you hold the Earth still and let the SS orbit around the Earth. However, notice that the Sun seems to be rising in the West, setting in the East. No? Yes!
Seeing the Universe from a different perspective is valuable and difficult. I think you got it wrong.

[nathanjazielbagatsolon]

Im watching this 10 years later so just want to say, great video

[JSB]

It says in this video that our Solar System planets rotate counterclock-wise around the Sun, but that perception would change if you looked at the Solar Systen from the oposite side of the general planetary orbital plane, from where it would look to the observer as if the planets were rotating clockwise around the Sun.

[k-zappy]

Recently I have been starting to get into how our solar system works, I like the models in this video very much!

[jamesjoshua]

This is da best video a human Being Can Watch... at least Top 24

[santoshbpatil]

This video really makes this nice a clear in terms of how the planets orbit the sun. Many thanks! Will be useful for teaching kids about the Solar System.

[aminaurten.]

Thank you for this everyone involved! It was beautifully done and fascinating.

[jamesjoshua]

LuvvTheVideo.. I Could Watch This All Day... Definitely...

[PeaceChanel]

Thank You for All that you are doing for World Peace and for our Planet...
Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. La Paz.. Namaste ..
🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ ☮️ ❤️ 🕊

[muradjamil]

Great video - brings so much clarity - yet if they had shown the days - time - seasons and distance of the orbiting Earth around the Sun then it would have been much more knowledgeable.