Transcript Planets
The Mars One Mission is trying to colonize Mars. If you go you won’t be returning to Earth. Would you still go? Review Space Distance • Measure in Astronomical Units • 1 AU = the distance from the Sun to Earth • 1 AU = 150 million kilometers = 93,000,000 miles. Mercury • 0.4 AU from the Sun • Marked with craters from meteorite impacts. • 88 days to orbit the Sun. Venus • • • • 0.7 AU from the sun Surrounded by thick clouds Hottest planet 470*C (880*F) 225 days to orbit the sun Earth • 1 AU from the sun • Only planet with life in our Solar System • Allows water to exist as solid, liquid, and gas. • 365 ¼ days revolution Mars Named after the Roman god of war! • 1.5 AU from the Sun • Seasons & polar ice caps • Once had H2O • Red color=iron oxide • 687 days revolution Asteroid Belt • located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter and has many irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. • • • • 5.2 from the sun Largest planet in the solar system Great Red Spot- HUGE storm 12 years to orbit the Sun Jupiter • • • • 9.5 AU from the Sun Rings are made of dust, ice, and rock 29.5 years revolution Titan- Saturn’s largest moon is larger than Mercury! Saturn Uranus Uranus • 19.2 AU from the Sun • Ring system, many moons. (27 so far) • Spins horizontal • 84 years revolution It is the only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than Roman mythology like the other planets, from the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Neptune • 30.6 AU from the sun • Methane gas gives the planet a blue-green color • 165 years revolution • Strongest winds up to 1,300mph • Usually 38.5 AU from the sun • Small, rocky “dwarf planet” with a frozen crust. • 248 years revolution • Our Moon is larger • Eris is larger Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFx iBzDTsD0 Pluto PLUTO Planet Research Project (Summative) Due May 11 (B) or May 12 (A) • You may use technology - Must bring hard copy to class! • No slide shows! • • • • Brochure Text book page Info-graphic Flip Flap Book or Other Foldable Brochure Text Book Page Info-Graphic Flip Flap or Other Foldable • Follow ALL directions on your lab sheet! MUST work together!! Mapping our Solar System Work on Homework! Study Your NOTES!