On this page you can select two measures for the 8 planets of our solar system. They are compared in a 2D Scatterplot.

So you can find out if there are interesting combinations of measures and you can think of explanations for the visualized results.

Rank correlation:

Resources for the values

• Marcus Chown: Das Sonnensystem - Eine Entdeckungsreise zu allen Planeten, Monden und anderen Himmelskörpern, die um die Sonne kreisen. Fackelträger Verlag, Köln 2012, ISBN 978-3-7716-4501-4
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• Astronomie - Eine Entdeckungsreise mit aktuellen Aufnahmen unseres Sonnensystems. Parragon Books Ltd., Bath 2011, ISBN 978-1-4454-4169-6
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• For differing values the Wikipedia pages of the planets have been checked to verify the correct values. (For the known satellites the Wikipedia pages are the only resources that are really up to date.)

Resources for the images

• Sun - Resource: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
• Mercury - Resource: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
• Venus - Resource: NSSDC Photo Gallery
• Earth - Resource: NASA
• Mars - Resource: NASA/JPL
• Jupiter - Resource: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
• Saturn - Resource: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
• Uranus - Resource: NASA/JPL
• Neptune - Resource: NASA