Solar system Artwork of the nine 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 Neptune the outer gas giant planets and Pluto a Dwarf planet of rock and ice Apart from Saturn the outer planets are at top right The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is also seen and the Milky Way galaxy is in the background
