Solar System Scope

Solar System Scope, an interactive 3D exploration of our solar system

Some fun sites for exploring and learning about our solar system.

• http://www.solarsystemscope.com/  A site that lets you explore and examine planets in our solar system.  My two favorite aspects of this site is that it displays the current locations of all the planets according to the current time.  Something that used to annoy me in school was they would always have charts showing the solar system, but the size and distances (from the sun) would always be incorrect because to make an accurate depiction of our solar system with distances taken into account the planets would only be small pinpoints on the map.  On the left side of the interface there is a gear that will bring up these options and allow you to set it up so the planets are easier to see, or to make it all accurate with size and distances.  Of course if you do slide the bars over to accuracy all the planets shrink down to small pinpoints because our solar system is that vast.
• http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ Is the main page of Solar System Scope and lets you zoom into different planets where it will give you a detailed explanation of what makes up each planet and allows you cut away the layers to see what the planet's core looks like. 

Hope you have some fun with the exploring the solar system.