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Venus
Earth
Mercury
Mars
ALL ABOUT THE PLANETS
and a few other things
By:James Cooper Elsberry
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Mercury
First I will start off with Mercury. Mercury is
extremely difficult to observe from Earth's
surface. Also, the gravitational pull is seventeen
times stronger than the moon's pull on Earth.
Mercury will sometimes get tidal budges. A tidal
budge is a gravitational tide that happens
because it isn't uniform across it's diameter.
Lastly, it's surface is similar to the moon's.
Picture of the side of
Mercury facing the Sun.
This is a picture of the side
that is not facing the Sun.
The next planet closest
to the sun is Venus. It
can reach a
temperature over 800
degrees Fahrenheit.
That is a normal
Arizona day times
eight! As you can tell,
since this planet is so
hot it is the hottest
planet in our solar
system. About 65% of
Venus is just smooth
plains. On this burning
hot planet, the
pressure is intense. Did
you know that if you
stood on Venus you
would feel the same
amount of pressure as
if you where three
thousand two hundred
feet underwater!
Venus
Picture of this blazing hot planet.
Earth
The next planet in the solar system is very easy to find information on. That is
because it is the planet that we live on. Called planet Earth. As we know of right now,
Earth is the only planet with life. Researchers know that Earth was made up of rocks
and dust. For this to happen gravity pulled space rocks together to form Earth.
Before humans ever walked the Earth, it was a boiling ball of liquid and rock. The
temperature was over 2,000 degrees F. This planet is perfect for us because it the
right atmosphere. Our atmosphere has lots of oxygen so we can breathe and survive.
Also, it is not too far from the sun. Which is good because if we where too far away,
our water would freeze. Then, it is good that we don't live too close to the sun because
if we did our water would evaporate. Clearly, we know a lot about this planet.
Picture pf our planet Earth.
Mars
The next planet closest to the sun is Mars.Mars is the fourth planet
from the sun. Mars is referred to as the red planet because of all
the rust on it. The red color comes from the iron oxide on the
surface of the planet. Mars has mountain ranges, volcanic fields,
valleys, ice caps, canyons, and deserts. Interestingly, Mars has the
largest impact crater ever discovered on it's surface. Many Mars
rovers like Curiosity, have been sent to the this Martian surface so
that we can learn more about this planet.
Picture of this Martian planet.
Jupiter
Next there is Jupiter. Jupiter, is by far is the largest planet. It is also the
very first of the gas giants. Since Jupiter is a gas giant, this planet has no
surface. Meaning that we would not be able to land on it. Scientists are
thinking that Jupiter might have a rocky core. Even though Jupiter is big, it
is only 1/1,000th as massive as the sun. Jupiter has a faint set of rings.
These rings can't be seen with just the naked eye, you would need a
telescope to see these rings. Those rings wrap around Jupiter horizontally.
The notable red spot on Jupiter is a gigantic storm. This storm is so
humongous that it is bigger than Earth! This storm has gusts over 400mph.
Scientists are thinking that the big storm is actually shrinking.
This is the comparison size of
Jupiter compared to Earth.
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. It is also one of the four
gas giants. Saturn's rings were first discovered by Galileo in
1610. Saturn is the second largest planet. Saturn is also 764
times the volume of Earth. Saturn takes 29.46 Earth years to
orbit the sun.
Picture of Saturn and it's beautiful rocky
rings.
Uranus
Uranus is a very cold and frigid planet. From our planet Earth
Uranus looks like a blue ball. When scientists first discovered
Uranus they were convinced it was just a star. It was not until
1781that Uranus become known as a planet. It also a gas gian
like it's fellow relatives Jupiter and Saturn. It is 7.78 million
miles from the sun. It takes Uranus 84 Earth years to orbit the
sun. Even though the planetary year is so long, it only takes 18
hours to fully rotate on its axis and complete a whole day.
Picture of this frigid
planet.
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It the fourth and
the last gas giant. Five of Neptune's moons weren't
discovered till the 21st century. Also, this planet wasn't
discovered till 1846. This planet wasn't found by a telescope
but by mathematical operations. Neptune is 17 times the
mass of Earth. This planet is 27 million miles away from the
sun.
Photograph of this blue ball.
PLANET 9
When most people think of our solar system, they think of eight
planets, and our sun. But not the astronomer Mike Brown. Brown is
interested into the region of space beyond these eight planets.
"There's this huge part of the solar system that we're only just
beginning to learn about." he says. This a hypothetical in planet our
solar system. It is in the farther part of our solar system. It's orbit
period expands from 10,000 years too 20,000 years. The gravitational
effects which would explain the improbable orbital configuration of
transNeptunian objects that orbit mostly around the Kuiper belt. The
Kuiper belt is home to icy, rocky objects; billions of comets; and a few
dwarf planets ( objects to small to be considered planets) such as
Pluto. In a 2014 letter to the journal Nature, astronomers Chad Trujillo
and Scott S Sheppard inferred the possible existence of a massive
transNeptunian life form. It's semi major axis is 700 AU (est.).
Astronomers hunting for this mysterious planet have found some 50
new, may reveal more about this mysterious planet.
Picture of this mysterious, frigid, and strange planet.
APOLLO SATURN V ROCKET
The Saturn V (spoken as Saturn five) was an American human rated expandable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973.
NASA also built this rocket to send man to the moon. This rocket was
called an heavy lift vehicle. This was a very large rocket. It reached
about 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36 story
building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Fully fueled for lift off, the Saturn V weighed 2.8 million
kilograms(6.2 million pounds), the weight of about 400 elephants.
The rocket generated 34.5 newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust at
launch, creating more than 85 Hoover Dams. A car that gets 45
kilometers (30 miles) to the gallon could drive around the world 800
with the amount of fuel the Saturn V used for a lunar landing
mission. It could launch about 118,000 kilograms (130 tons) into
Earth's orbit. That is about as much weight has 10 school buses. The
Saturn V could launch 43,000 kilograms ( 50 tons) to the moon. That
is about the same has 4 school buses. The Saturn V was developed at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. It was three
types of rockets NASA built. Two smaller rockets, the Saturn 1 and
Saturn 1B, were used to launch humans into Earth orbit. The Saturn
V sent them beyond Earth orbit to the moon. Lastly, it was launched
at the LC - 39 Kennedy Space center. My grandfather helped build
Saturn V. He also has a model of at it's launching site.
Picture of Saturn V ready to launch off.
Picture of SaturnV launching off at
LC - 39