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Solar system setup. The planets, relative sizes and characteristics had to be accurate.
Venus, usually gas enveloped. Getting a bit further from the sun.
Our home, the third rock from the sun.
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Our nearest nieghbour, Mars. Still a few years flight time though.
The first of the gas giants, and technically a star, Jupiter.
Not the only planet in our solar system with rings, but the most obvious - being visible from earth.
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If you look very closely Neptune has four rings.
The second giant jewel in the sky, and the one with the name that makes kids giggle, Uranus.
And now it seems Pluto (two bodies Pluto and Charon) number nine of ten planets in our system.
From the 1990 BBC Television Series The Planets. Along with numerous shots virtuallydone was appointed the task of setting up the Solar System, texturing and lighting the nine major planets.