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NASA/JPL – Our Solar System

Explore the planets, moons and dwarf planets of our solar system using scientific reference data and current ephemerides. The data come from various NASA/JPL data products and are prepared for profiles, distance comparisons and interactive visualisations.

Review pending

Data licence and terms of use

The licence and usage details are currently under review.

JPL Solar System Body Parameters – Planeten und ausgewählte Monde

Lokal kuratierte Stammdatenzusammenstellung für acht Planeten, Erdmond und vier Galileische Monde auf Grundlage der JPL-Tabellen Planetary Physical Parameters, Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters und Planetary Satellite Mean Elements. Deutsche Beschreibungen und didaktische Hinweise sind eigene redaktionelle Inhalte.

Review status
Review pending
Provider
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Solar System Dynamics Group / Caltech
Dataset identifier
JPL Planetary Physical Parameters; JPL Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters; JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
Licence
Not yet verified
Terms of use
Not recorded yet
API and data address
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/phys_par.html

Licence and usage rights

Commercial use: Unknown Storage: Unknown Modification: Unknown Redistribution: Unknown Public display: Unknown

Attribution and citation guidance

Not yet clarified: Empfohlene Quellenangabe: NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics Group; konkrete wissenschaftliche Referenzen gemäß den Fußnoten der verwendeten JPL-Parameter- und Mean-Elements-Tabellen.

Licence and usage rights have not yet been fully reviewed. Missing or unknown details are not permission, especially for commercial use, storage, modification or redistribution.

JPL Small-Body Database – ausgewählte Zwergplaneten

Maschinenlesbare SBDB-Objekt-, Bahn- und ausgewählte physikalische Daten für Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake und Eris. Der Import ergänzt kuratierte Seed-Werte, ohne fehlende SBDB-Werte künstlich zu ersetzen.

Review status
Review pending
Provider
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Solar System Dynamics Group / CNEOS / Caltech
Dataset identifier
JPL SBDB objects 1, 134340, 136108, 136472, 136199; phys-par=1; full-prec=1
Licence
Not yet verified
Terms of use
Open terms · SBDB API 1.3; Fair Use Policy accessed 2026-10-29
API and data address
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html · https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.api

Licence and usage rights

Commercial use: Unknown Storage: Unknown Modification: Unknown Redistribution: Unknown Public display: Unknown

Attribution and citation guidance

Not yet clarified: Empfohlene Quellenangabe: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB), Solar System Dynamics Group; zugrunde liegende Beobachtungsdaten unter anderem vom Minor Planet Center, soweit für das konkrete Objekt angegeben.

Licence and usage rights have not yet been fully reviewed. Missing or unknown details are not permission, especially for commercial use, storage, modification or redistribution.

JPL Horizons – allgemeine Sonnensystem-Ephemeriden

Tägliche aktuelle Observer- und Sonnenvektor-Snapshots für Merkur, Venus, Erde, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptun sowie Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake und Eris. Erdmond, Galileische Monde, Marsmonde, separate Erde-Sonne-Vektoren und DE440s sind nicht umfasst.

Review status
Review pending
Provider
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Solar System Dynamics Group / Caltech
Dataset identifier
Horizons targets 199,299,399,499,599,699,799,899,Ceres,999,20136108,Makemake,20136199; OBSERVER coord@399 Berlin; VECTORS 500@10
Licence
Not yet verified
Terms of use
Open terms · Horizons API 1.3 (2025 June); Fair Use Policy accessed 2026-10-29
API and data address
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/ · https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api

Licence and usage rights

Commercial use: Unknown Storage: Unknown Modification: Unknown Redistribution: Unknown Public display: Unknown

Required attribution

J.D. Giorgini and JPL Solar System Dynamics Group, NASA/JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/; tatsächliches Abrufdatum gemäß gespeichertem stored retrieval time des verwendeten Snapshots.

Licence and usage rights have not yet been fully reviewed. Missing or unknown details are not permission, especially for commercial use, storage, modification or redistribution.

JPL Horizons – Moon Ephemerides

Numerische Mond-Ephemeriden aus JPL Horizons für Ziel 301. Der Mondimport übernimmt geozentrische Vektordistanzen in Kilometern; der allgemeine Sonnensystemimport nutzt zusätzlich Beobachter- und Vektortabellen für Entfernung, Lichtlaufzeit, Position, Beleuchtung und Phasenwinkel.

Review status
Review pending
Provider
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Solar System Dynamics Group
Dataset identifier
JPL Horizons target 301 – Moon; geocentric vector and observer ephemerides
Licence
Not yet verified
Terms of use
Open terms
API and data address
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/ · https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api

Licence and usage rights

Commercial use: Unknown Storage: Unknown Modification: Unknown Redistribution: Unknown Public display: Unknown

Required attribution

Ephemeriden: J.D. Giorgini and JPL Solar System Dynamics Group, NASA/JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/ (Datenabruf: jeweiliges Abrufdatum).

Licence and usage rights have not yet been fully reviewed. Missing or unknown details are not permission, especially for commercial use, storage, modification or redistribution.

NASA/JPL Horizons – Galileische Jupitermonde

Serverseitig abgerufene und lokal gecachte JPL-Horizons-Ephemeriden für Io (501), Europa (502), Ganymed (503) und Kallisto (504): geozentrische Observer-Ephemeriden, Jupiter-zentrische geometrische Zustandsvektoren sowie allgemeine aktuelle Horizons-Snapshots. Nicht umfasst sind lokal gepflegte didaktische Fakten, Bilder, der separate DE440s-Kernel oder andere astronomische Kataloge.

Review status
Review pending
Provider
NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics / Caltech
Dataset identifier
JPL Horizons targets 501–504; OBSERVER center 500@399; VECTORS center 500@599; general solar-system snapshots also use Horizons
Licence
Not yet verified
Terms of use
Open terms
API and data address
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/ · https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api

Licence and usage rights

Commercial use: Unknown Storage: Unknown Modification: Unknown Redistribution: Unknown Public display: Unknown

Attribution and citation guidance

Not yet clarified: J.D. Giorgini and JPL Solar System Dynamics Group, NASA/JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/

Licence and usage rights have not yet been fully reviewed. Missing or unknown details are not permission, especially for commercial use, storage, modification or redistribution.

Provider

NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics / Caltech

Portal use

Explore the planets, moons and dwarf planets of our solar system using scientific reference data and current ephemerides. The data come from various NASA/JPL data products and are prepared for profiles, distance comparisons and interactive visualisations.

Data used

NASA/JPL Horizons, JPL Planetary Physical Parameters, JPL Small-Body Database.

Didactic processing

Planetensteckbriefe mit physikalischen Stammdaten Aktuelle Entfernungen von Erde und Sonne Vergleich von Planeten und Zwergplaneten Monddaten und Lichtlaufzeiten im Sonnensystem

Planetensteckbriefe mit physikalischen Stammdaten Aktuelle Entfernungen von Erde und Sonne Vergleich von Planeten und Zwergplaneten Monddaten und Lichtlaufzeiten im Sonnensystem

Related module blocks

solar_system_overview planet_profile planet_distance_now solar_system_compare vis3d_solar_system newton_gravity_orbit_simulator

Status & capabilities

Status: active overview bodies body ephemeris current compare moon status

Default parameters

mode=overview

Source & attribution

NASA/JPL Horizons, JPL Planetary Physical Parameters, JPL Small-Body Database.

API modes

overview → featured bodies → items body → body ephemeris → items current → items compare → items moon → moon status → import_status

Learning modules

Auf den Spuren Galileo Galileis – die 4 Monde des Jupiter Demo: Jupiter und galileische Monde Der Mars Der Mars und seine Monde Die 8 Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem Mars - Demobausteine Unser Nachbarplanet der Mars 2 Unser Nachbarplanet der Mars 3 Warum hat Mars zwei so seltsame Monde? Wie schnell rast die Internationale Raumstation um die Erde?