NASA - A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out

A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out

02.18.11

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecraft’s Wide Angle Camera on Nov. 3 and 16, 2010.
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Jupiter's Galilean satellites (Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io)
Credits: NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington What would our solar system look like if visitors from other worlds took a series of pictures?

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft did just that by piecing together the first portrait of our solar system from the inside looking out. Comprised of 34 images, the mosaic provides a complement to the solar system portrait--from the outside looking in--taken by Voyager 1 in 1990.

via nasa.gov

Here is an interesting article about what our solar system would look like if we were outside of it and looking in.