Let's pretend that we can travel at the speed of light, and start our trip from the Sun, the center of the solar system. The first part of our journey is full of stops: after only 3 minutes and 2 seconds we fly by the first planet, Mercury; after 6 minutes we encounter the second planet, Venus; after 8 minutes and 3 seconds we reach our home, the Earth, along with its orbiting Moon; after 12 minutes we reach Mars, the red planet, the passion of science fiction writers. Continuing beyond Mars, the stops on our trip become few and far between: in fact, we must travel for a half an hour before reaching Jupiter, but the time moves quickly because we will cross a very "panoramic" zone, the asteroid belt, a swath of space filled with rocky fragments of all shapes and sizes. Leaving Jupiter behind, we continue moving through the absolute darkness for 40 minutes before arriving at Saturn, the most beautiful planet in the entire solar system, with rings that sparkle against the background of the cosmos. After Saturn, we must travel for another hour and twenty minutes before reaching Uranus. We will arrive at Neptune only after another half an hour and then Pluto after another hour and twenty minutes, exactly five and a half hours from when we left the Sun.
Let's pretend that we can travel at the speed of light, and start our trip from the Sun, the center of the solar system. The first part of our journey is full of stops: after only 3 minutes and 2 seconds we fly by the first planet, Mercury; after 6 minutes we encounter the second planet, Venus; after 8 minutes and 3 seconds we reach our home, the Earth, along with its orbiting Moon; after 12 minutes we reach Mars, the red planet, the passion of science fiction writers. Continuing beyond Mars, the stops on our trip become few and far between: in fact, we must travel for a half an hour before reaching Jupiter, but the time moves quickly because we will cross a very "panoramic" zone, the asteroid belt, a swath of space filled with rocky fragments of all shapes and sizes. Leaving Jupiter behind, we continue moving through the absolute darkness for 40 minutes before arriving at Saturn, the most beautiful planet in the entire solar system, with rings that sparkle against the background of the cosmos. After Saturn, we must travel for another hour and twenty minutes before reaching Uranus. We will arrive at Neptune only after another half an hour and then Pluto after another hour and twenty minutes, exactly five and a half hours from when we left the Sun.
