Transcript The Solar System

The
Solar
System
by 3H
Saturn
• 7 rings
• Moon-Iapetus is divided
into 2 halves,1 dark and
1 light
• Farthest planet from
Earth
• 800 Earths can fit inside
• 33 moons
The Sun
• Is about 260 times
around the United
States
• Been burning for 5
billion years
• The lighter spots are
hotter than the darker
spots
• People and plants
depend on the Sun
Venus
• Sapas Mons a mountain
is 2.5 miles long
• Venus is one of two
planets to rotate
clockwise
• Hottest planet in Solar
System
• Sometimes called
Earth’s twin
Jupiter
• 63 moons
• Europa has all
ingredients for life
• More than 1300 Earths
could fit inside Jupiter
• Jupiter may be a failed
star
• Covered in clouds
hundreds of miles thick
Mars
• Dust storms can cover the
entire planet
• Brightest object in the sky
• Average temperature 85
degrees F
• Orbits the sun in an oval
shaped path
The SUN
• Core temperature is 27
million degrees
• 8 minutes for its light to
reach Earth
• The sun is the only star
in our solar system
Mars
• 4rth planet from the
sun
• 2 moons
• 142 million miles from
sun
• Unbreathable
atmosphere
• Does not have rings
Neptune
• About the same size as
Uranus.
• The dark spots on
Neptune are large
storms.
• Mostly ice and gas.
Sun
• Made out of hot gases
• Core 270,000,000
degrees F
• Only star
Mercury
• Its biggest crater is 810
miles long!
• Its day is 176 Earth days
long.
• It seems to change
shape and size seen
through a telescope.
• Its year is 87,969 hour
long.
Saturn
• One day is 10 hr. and
45min.
• It takes it 30 years to
obit the sun
• Named after the roman
god of farming
• 33 moons
• Iapetus a moon is about
900 miles across
The Moon
• Does not give any light.
• Has a lot of craters,
some can be 50 miles
wide!
• The darker parts of the
moon are smoother.
• Eight phases.
Uranus
• Eleven rings
• Twenty seven known
moons
• Sixty three Earths fit
inside
• Mostly hydrogen and
helium
• Wind speeds up to 450
miles per hour
Neptune
• Cloud shape swirls give
it a blue color
• It’s named after a
Roman God of the Sea
• Its temperature is -391
degrees F
• It’s made of ice and gas
• It has thin rings of dust
Jupiter
• Your weight will double
(50-100)
• Looks like a star
• Clouds are made by
gases
• 4 thin rings
• Jupiter’s clouds are
orange, red, tan, yellow,
and white.
Saturn
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6th in the Solar System
Several rings
Ball of gases and clouds
Made of rock and ice
33 moons
Rings size of a car
The Sun
• Has loops and streams
of gas that extend tens
of thousands of miles
into space
• Larger than Earth
• 27 million degrees F
• If it was a beach ball
Earth would be pebble
• Earth rotates around it
The
Solar
System
by 3H