Our Solar System - Hardeman School
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Our Solar System
By
Eric and Haley
The Sun
The Sun is like a huge star
The Sun is in the middle of our solar
system
The Sun is essential to all things
It makes energy that gives heat for all
things
It also makes fossil fuels
Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun
It only takes 88 earth days for Mercury to
orbit the Sun
A day on Mercury is 59 times longer than
an earth day
Mercury is very hot during the day and
very cold at night
Venus
Venus is called “The twin of earth”
because they are alike
In the day Venus gets four times hotter
than boiling water
Venus reflects sunlight making it the
brightest thing in the sky
Earth
Earth is the only planet with life
Which also means it is the only planet with
water
24 Earth hours is one Earth day and 365
Earth days is one Earth year
Our atmosphere protects us from the Suns
harmful rays
Our Moon
Our Moon is many times smaller than
Earth
Many scientists think the Moon used to be
a part of Earth
The Moon causes Earths ocean tides too
It reflects light from the sun
Mars
Mars is known as the red planet
The climate is much different than Earths
The climate changes from 86 F in the
summer to -202F
There is very little oxygen and water vapor
Jupiter
Jupiter is the biggest planet
It is mostly made up of gas
The high winds are all ways stormy
It is also as wide as three Earths
Saturn
Saturn is easy to recognize because of
its large rings
Saturn also has many moons
It weighs little for how big it is
Saturn spins very fast though
Uranus
Uranus appears blue green because of
methane gas in its atmosphere
Uranus seems to roll around the sun
Scientists think this might because it hit
another planet like thing
It takes Uranus 81 Earth years to go
around the sun
Neptune
Neptune and Uranus are called the twin
giants because their so much alike and big
Neptune has the fastest winds in our
universe ( 2000 kilometers per hour
Neptune has one moon and many smaller
moons
It takes Neptune 165 Earth years to go
around the sun
The End!
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