Transcript The Solar System

Solar System Exploration
The Space Shuttle
• “Nasa” stands for National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. It has been
the United States official of launching
man into outer space.
• The Space Shuttle is made to transport
astronauts to all the different planet in
outer space.
Sun
• Our Solar System
star, the Sun, is
the closest star
to earth at a
mean distance
from our planet
of 149.60 million
kilometers.
Mercury
• The small, rocky
planet, Mercury,
is the closest
planet to the
sun.
• It speeds around
the Sun in a
wildly elliptical
orbit.
Venus
• At first glance,
if the Earth had
a twin it would
be Venus.
• The two planets
are similar in
size, mass,
composition,
and distance
from the sun.
Earth
• Earth, our home
planet, is the
only planet in
our solar system
known to harbor
life that is
incredibly
diverse.
Moon
• The moon has
guided timekeepers
for thousands of
years.
• More than 70
spacecrafts have
been sent to the
moon and 12
astronauts have
walked on its
surface.
Mars
• The red planet
Mars has a
small rocky
body that is
very earthlike.
• It has inspired
wild flights of
imagination
over the
CENTRIES.
Jupiter
• The most
massive planet
in our solar
system with
four planet –
sized moons,
Jupiter forms a
kind of
miniature solar
system.
Saturn
• Saturn is the
most distant of
the five planets.
• It is made mostly
of hydrogen and
helium.
• It has thousands
of rings made up
of billions of ice
and rock
particles.
Uranus
•Uranus, like
Saturn, is
encircled by
five narrow
rings which
are named
Alpha, Beta,
Gamma, Delta,
and Epsilon.
Neptune
• The eighth planet
from the sun,
Neptune, was the
first planet located
through
mathematical
predictions rather
than observations of
the sky.
Pluto
• Our smallest,
coldest, and most
distant planet
from the sun.
• Pluto has a dual
identity, not to
mention being
enshrouded in
controversy since
its discovery in
1930.
A Nasa Astronaut
• A career as an astronaut requires vasts
amounts of education and training. To
become an astronaut it takes two years of
training and over twenty skills to learn.
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Resources
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