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Solar system
By aly whaley
The sun
• The sun is 9,940 degrees Fahrenheit. The
larger the object the more mass it has that’s
the same with gravity and that’s why our
planets orbit the sun
Mercury
• Even though it is the closet planet to the sun it
is 36 million miles away. Mercury moves at
107,373 miles per hour. Don’t you wish your
car went that fast.
Venus
• Venus is the brightest and hottest planet in the solar system. Venus is 67
million miles away. Venus has a temperature of 864 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Venus can be seen from earth in the day.
Earth
• Earth is the only planet that you can see with a
naked eye (if your in space ) that has bodies of
water on it. Earth is 93 million miles away from
the sun. Earth has 21% oxygen in its
atmosphere.
Mars
• Mars has the largest mountain in the whole
solar system Olympus mons is more than
fifteen feet high.
• mars is nicknamed the red planet
• Mars in Greek is named after the god of war
Jupiter
• Jupiter is the first of the gas giants
• There is a permanent (but always changing)
whirlpool of storms bigger the earth.
• Jupiter is composed of helium, hydrogen,
ammonia and methane
Saturn
• Saturn's rings are composed with ice.
• Saturn’s temperature is -270 degrees
Fahrenheit.
• Saturn has the slowest orbit so Saturn was
named after the god of time.
Uranus
• Uranus is the smallest of the gas giants
• The center Uranus contains frozen mass of
methane and ammonia which gives Uranus its
blue-green color
• Its axis is tipped so it orbits on its side.
Neptune
Neptune's temperature is -353 degrees
Fahrenheit .
The distance from the sun is 2.8 billion miles
Neptune is named after the god of the sea
Poseidon.
Earths moon
• 12 humans have walked the moon
• The moon makes a complete orbit around
earth in 27 earth days.
• The first lunar probe attempt was on the 17th
august in 1958.it was not successful it blew up
after 77 seconds.
Asteroids
• There are 670,452 in the whole entire solar
system.
• There has been 11 missions about asteroids
• Before pioneer 10, people thought nobody
can survive the asteroid belt… till February
1973
Other moons
1. There are 178 known moons in our solar
system.
2. Titian is the biggest of all 53 of Saturn's
moons
3. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger than
Titan
Meteoroids
• Meteoroids are also called shooting stars
• 48.5 tons of meteoroid fall on earth every day.
• Meteoroids were a comet but broke off.
Comets
• The first comet fly by was in sept 11th 1985
• The earliest record of seeing a comet was in
240 BCE
• In 2014, the Rosetta was the first drone to
land on a comet.
Stars
• Stars could be millions of millions of miles
away and you could still see them.
• Stars are not just two feet away they're
thousands of miles away .
• There is a star that is bigger than the sun and
hotter
Black holes
• Nothing can escape a black hole not even
light.
• You cannot see a black hole.
• Black holes are formed from dying stellar stars
Pluto
Pluto was a planet till 2008
Pluto has a mass of 1.305±0.007 x 1o²² kg
Pluto is a dwarf planet cause he is much smaller
Thank you for watching
• All photos found from Shutterstock and nasa