Our Solar System
Our Solar System is much more than a star and eight planets. Explore the many worlds — planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, and asteroids — that orbit the Sun. Drive a rover that's examining the surface of Mars or shoot projectiles into a soft surface to size up the craters they leave behind.
Location: Upper Level (see map)
Appropriate for: All ages
Exhibition Tour
Feel a piece of an actual meteorite that crashed into the Earth and created a huge crater in Arizona, make your own crater with our Crater Maker, and explore Mars through a life-size model of one of the Mars rovers. In the gallery you can try driving the rovers and see two meteorites from Mars.
Find out how much you would weigh and how old you would be on Io, Venus, Saturn and Halley’s Comet.
What Planet Would You Go To?
- Around the Adler
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Join Big Bird and his friends on a lunar adventure in One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure.
- Did you know?
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The twelve zodiac signs are represented by sculptures around the building. Can you find yours?
- Get involved
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Have an out of this world birthday party at the Adler this year.
