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Nine places to land

Each one is a fall from orbit to the surface, or as near to a surface as that world has. Scroll down a page and you go with it.

1. centreThe SunDrift a few thousand kilometres over the boiling surface, towards a sunspot.
2. 0.387 au88 days round the SunMercuryStand on a crater rim near the north pole, the Sun low on the horizon.
3. 0.723 au225 days round the SunVenusSink through the acid cloud to the orange ground the Venera landers saw.
4. 1 au365 days round the SunEarthCome down through the cloud to open sea off O‘ahu.
5. 1.52 au687 days round the SunMarsLand in Gale crater, under Mount Sharp, where Curiosity is working.
6. 5.2 au11.9 years round the SunJupiterSkim the cloud tops beside the Great Red Spot, with Io overhead.
7. 9.54 au29.4 years round the SunSaturnHang in the haze at 40° north, under the arch of the rings.
8. 19.2 au84 years round the SunUranusMidnight at 45° north. The Sun is still up, and five moons sit in a row.
9. 30.1 au165 years round the SunNeptuneRide above the blue at 29° north, where white streaks cast their shadows.

Distances are the average from the Sun, in astronomical units (1 au is the Earth’s distance, about 150 million km). The model above draws every planet hundreds of times too big so you can see it at all. Figures from NASA’s planetary fact sheets and JPL; the full list is on the sources page.