This exhibition will help you to discover the main components of the Solar System as they are known to scientists today. Are emphasized the latest scientific results, the unresolved questions, the space missions designed to study them ...

Le Système solaire
Public
  • General public
  • Schoolchildren from 4e.
  • An alternative version of this exhibition is also available for young people from the end of elementary school.
Language

Texts translated into English

Description

The exhibition consists of 12 panels broken down as follows : Introduction, The Sun, Mercury, Venus, The Earth, Mars, Small objects, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, The outer reaches of the solar system.

Practical information

The panels are printed on canvas, in kakemonos 600 by 750 mm format.

The exhibition is accompanied by a DVD “1, 2, 3, planètes !”*, a quiz and a dossier d’accompagnement.

Conception

This exhibition was created by Observatoire de Paris with the support of the French Ministry of Education’s “Sciences à l’Ecole” program.

It is the travelling version of a permanent exhibition created in 2007 in the gardens of the Meudon site of the Paris Observatory, where the Solar System is represented on a scale of 1 meter for 10 million kilometers.

Pilotage : Sabrina Thiéry, Direction de la communication
Relecture : Christine Etienne, Frédérique Auffret
Comité scientifique : Alain Doressoundiram, Thierry Fouchet, Emmanuel Lellouch, Jean-Marie Malherbe, Laurent Pagani, Thérèse Encrenaz, James Lecqueux, Patrick Boumier
Graphisme : Emmanuel Vergnaud
Réalisation Technique : Juan Quintanilla
Traduction anglaise : John Leibacher, National Solar Observatory, Tucson (USA)

Le parcours pédagogique Système solaire à l’Observatoire de Paris
Sabine Lemaitre
Modifié le 16 mai 2025