Solar System Live Map

Explore the planets in near real time

View the Sun, planets, Earth’s Moon, and orbit paths using close-to-live solar system position data. Time controls will let you move from real time into accelerated solar-system motion.

3D solar system live view

The map opens from the current live planetary positions. Time controls can then accelerate the solar system forward from that real starting point.

3D Live View

Selected: Solar System

Click a planet or spacecraft to focus it. Drag to orbit around the selected object. Scroll to zoom. Click the Sun to reset the solar-system view.

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Display controls

Use these controls to reduce clutter when zooming into planets or deep-space missions.

Time controls

Multiplier91x

1x slow365x year / minute

Real Time+1 year

Real Time

Viewing date: Sep 20, 2026

91x preview speed is running. Default is 91x, which previews about one Earth year every four minutes. 365x previews about one Earth year per minute.

Real Speed keeps the live position steady. Default runs at 91x, which previews about one Earth year every four minutes. The multiplier slider can increase the map up to 365x.

Information

Select a planet, moon, or deep-space mission in the 3D map.

Position source

Live Horizons objects

Fallback objects

Live missions

Missions total

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Viewing: Sep 20, 2026

Deep Space Missions

These markers use the same Sun-centered Horizons coordinate system as the planets. This layer intentionally leaves out normal Earth-orbiting satellites so it stays focused on deep-space missions.

Display note

Mission positions are directionally based on live Horizons data, but deep-space distances are visually compressed so Voyager, New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe, JWST, and the planets can be viewed together in one readable scene.

Earth season view

Northern Hemisphere

Summer

Southern Hemisphere

Winter

late summer in the Northern Hemisphere

Earth is tilted about 23.4°. The Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.

The lit side of Earth faces the Sun and the dark side is night. Sunlight reaches the north more directly while the south receives lower-angle sunlight.