Transcript TC`s planet project

TC’s Space project
A Tour Through Space
Sun
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The sun is a star.
Because it’s much
closer to us it looks
very hot and bright.
The sun is a huge ball
of gases.
The two main gases
are hydrogen and
helium.
Planet Mercury
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Mercury was known
to the Romans as the
Messenger to the
Gods.
Mercury is the planet
closest to the sun, but
it is not the hottest.
Of all the nine planets
in our solar system,
only Pluto was
smaller than Mercury.
Planet Venus
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Venus is the second
planet from the sun.
It is the hottest planet
in the solar system.
It is 67.2 million miles
away from the sun.
It has no moons.
Planet Earth
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Earth is the only one
that can support
human life out of all
the planets.
Earth is a average
planet.
It is bigger than four
of the planets and
smaller than the other
four.
Planet Mars
Mars is smaller and
colder than Earth.
 In August 1996 Mars
was found.
 Mars is more like
Earth than any other
planet, but it is still
very different.
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Planet Jupiter
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Jupiter is the largest
planet in the solar
system.
It is 54,000 degrees
Fahrenheit.
It is 30,000 degrees
Celsius.
The pressure of Jupiter’s
atmosphere will crush
any human or machine
that falls through the
clouds.
Planet Saturn
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Saturn is the famous
ringed planet.
Saturn’s rings are made
of ice and rock.
Saturn’s ring span is
about 600,000 miles.
They are not solid, but
consist of small chunks of
frozen material in a layer
of a few thousand feet
thick.
Planet Uranus
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Uranus was
discovered in 1781.
Many sky watchers
recorded Uranus.
Uranus has a side
ways spin.
Uranus has a
sideways spin.
Planet Neptune
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Neptune is the fourth
planet in the solar
system.
It was discovered in
1846.
Neptune has eight
moons.
Neptune’s moons are
colder than the planet
itself.
Asteroids
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Most asteroids lie
between Mars and
Jupiter.
One of the asteroids
may have caused an
extinction to
dinosaurs 65 million
years ago.
Comets
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Comets can decorate our
night skies in spectacular
fashions.
Comets are sometimes
described as dirty
snowballs.
As comets reach the sun
they start to dissolve.
The closer they get to the
sun the more they
disolve.
Meteors
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Meteors are small
pieces of dust and
rock.
Some of them end up
as shooting stars.
Most of the meteors
we see at night come
from comets.