Transcript Slide 1

♫First planet from the sun.
♫There are no rings on
Mercury.
♫88 days in a year.
♫There are no moons on
Mercury.
♫59 days to rotate on it’s axis.
☼ Mercury’s surface is filled
with craters.
☼ Mercury is a small rocky
planet.
☼ It is closest to the sun.
☺Second planet from the sun.
☺There are no moons on Venus.
☺224.7 days in a year.
☺There are no rings on Venus.
☺To orbit the sun it takes 243 day’s.
♥Venus is called earth’s
sister because both are the
same size and have the
same mass.
♥The surface of Venus is
incredibly hot as much as
900° F day and night.
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Third planet from the sun.
One moon.
Earth has no ring’s.
365.3 day’s in one year.
To orbit it takes 24 hours.
♦ The Earth is not the only
planet that travels around
the sun.
♦ Earth is like a giant
magnet. The space
around a magnet is
called a field.
♣Fourth planet from the
sun.
♣Mars has 2 moon’s.
♣Mars does not have a
ring.
♣To orbit it takes 24.5
hours.
♣684 days in one year.
• Mars has long been
called the red planet.
• The red color is
caused by iron
oxides [rust] in rocks
on it’s surface.
♠ 778 million km from the
sun.
♠ At least 16 moons.
♠ 2 rings.
♠ 12 earth years in one
year.
♠ 98 hours for it to rotate.
☻It’s rocky.
☻Jupiter is very different
from the other planets.
♪ 1,427 million km. from the
sun.
♪ At least 17 moon’s on Saturn.
♪ Many rings.
♪ 10.7 days in a year.
♪ 10.7 hours to rotate.
►Has a lot of
rings.
►Rings are
►Saturn’s equator.
The planet 12,870 million km
from the sun.
At least 15 moons.
10 rings
27.5 days in a year.
17 hours to rotate the sun.
↔To a telescope on
earth Uranus looks
like a small green
disk without any
features.
↔One or another of
it’s poles is
pointing at the sun.
> 4,500 million km. from the
sun.
> 8 moon’s.
> 4 rings.
> 84 hours to rotate.
> 84 days to revolve.
• Neptune is a hazy
blue planet.
• It’s 30 times farther
from the sun than
earth.