The Inner and Outer Planets
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Transcript The Inner and Outer Planets
Terrestrial
High
temperatures
Closer to the Sun
Closer to each other
Closest
to the Sun
Only 88 days to orbit
Many craters
Temperature
extremes
• 400C during day, -180
at night
Basically
no
atmosphere
Earth’s
sister planet
Morning and evening
star
Thick atmosphere of
CO2 and Sulfur
Longer day than year
Spins opposite than
other planets
Over 500C all the
time
Home
sweet home
Only planet with
sustained life
Hydrosphere (water)
Atmosphere made up
of N, O, CO2
Comfy temps
Frozen
polar CO2
caps
Smaller than Earth
Slightly longer day
and year
Very cold
Largest mountain in
solar system
• Olympus Mons
Thin
atmosphere
Separates
the inner
and outer planets
Possibly an
annihilated planet
Most asteroids hang
out here
Gas
giants
No solid surface, just thick atmosphere
All very large
Very far apart from each other
All have rings
Could hold 1300
Earths
Almost big enough to
be a star
12 EY = 1 Jovian year
1 Jovian day = 12 EH
Huge storms
Great red spot
“hurricane” larger than
Earth
Some moons may
have water
29
years to orbit
Large rings made of
ice and dust
10 hour day
Possibly still forming
Tilts itself
Blue
in color due to
methane gas
84 years to orbit
Rotates sideways
Very cold
• -250C
Methane
atomosphere
164 years to orbit
-250c temps
30 times farther from
the sun than Earth