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Exploring Our Solar System:
A Journey
By: Sarah Naeger
The 8 Planets
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Earth
Venus
Mars
Mercury
(largest to smallest)
Jupiter
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The largest planet
Famous for giant Red Spot
5th closest planet to the sun
Jupiter is so large that it
could hold 1,300 Earths!!
• Has the biggest moon in
the solar system
• Rotates (spins) faster than
any other planet
• It has rings you just can’t
see them
• Is a gaseous giant, made up
of mostly hydrogen and
helium
Saturn
• 2nd largest planet in the solar
system
• Known for its 7 beautiful rings
• It is a ball of gas, it has no core
• It’s largest moon, Titan, is the
only moon of Saturn with an
atmosphere and it larger than
Mercury
• A Saturn day last only 10 hours
and 14 minutes
• It poles are flattened due to its
extremely fast rotation
• Has a very low density and
if you put it in water it
would float
• It’s largest moon, Titan, is
the only moon of Saturn
with an atmosphere and it
larger than Mercury
• Its core is so hot that it
radiates more energy than
it receives from the sun
Uranus
• Seventh planet from the
sun
• Coldest planet in the Solar
System with surface
temperatures around -210
Celcius
• Axis of rotation is tilted
sideways may have been
from a collision with
another large planet
• It has a ring system as well
• The planet has clouds
which are thought to have
formed from methane
crystals
• The planet appears blue to
the naked eye because
methane absorbs light to
toward the red end of the
color spectrum. The only
light we see that is
reflected is green-blue
Neptune
• Eight farthest planet from
the sun
• Discovered through
mathematical prediction
not by observation
• Has the strongest winds of
any planet
• Primarily composed of ice
and rock
• Largest moon, Triton
• Despite its distance from
the sun, Neptune has very
strong winds up to nine
times stronger than on
Earth
• It has a Great Dark Spot
much like the Great Red
Spot on Jupiter but recently
scientists have not seen it
and wonder if it has
disappeared altogether
Earth
• Only known habitable
planet in the solar system,
aren’t we lucky!!!
• Earth is a relatively young
planet. The surface of the
Earth is estimated to only
be about 100 million years
old
• Most of the Earth’s mass, is
found in its liquid mantel
layer just below the crust
• Its magnetic field is much
larger than any other
planet due to its iron nickel
core spinning so fast
• The inner core is very hot
about 7,500 degrees Kelvin
VENUS
• Hottest planet in the
universe about 484 degrees
Celsius
• It has an extremely high
surface pressure, intense
enough to crush rocks on
the surface
• It spins in the opposite
direction of Earth and most
other planets. So the sun
rises in the west and sets in
the East
• The only water on the
planet is in the form of
water vapor that turns into
sulfuric rain
• 85% of Venus’s surface is
covered by volcanic rock
Mars
• Mars looks red in color
because it is rusty. There is
a lot of iron in the soil and
the atmosphere has
oxidized it.
• It has the tallest volcano,
Olympus Mons which is 15
miles high
• Mar’s surface is the only
planets surface who can be
viewed in great detail
from Earth
• Valleys and Canyons on the
planet suggest that it might
once have consisted of
large amounts of surface
water
• It gets very cold on Mars
with temperatures hitting as
low as -191 degrees
Farenheit
Mercury
• Smallest of the eight planets
• Mercury has no know
atmosphere or satellites
(moons)
• Planet closest to the sun but
surprisingly NOT the hottest
• It is slightly larger than our
Moon
• Mercury was once believed
to be two separate objects:
one visible only at sunrise,
'Apollo’, and the other
visible only at sunset, which
'Hermes'.
Solar System Quiz
Question 1
Why do Neptune and Uranus appear blue?
A) Because they are far away
B) Because of their methane
atmosphere
C) They are covered in ice which looks blue
from far away
D) They have clouds that are blue
Question 2
Which planet has the lowest density?
A) Jupiter
B) Uranus
C) Saturn
D) Earth
Question 3
Which planet has no satellites
(moons)?
A)Mercury
B)Earth
C)Venus
D)Jupiter
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Thomas, Chris. "The Solar Space Station - facts, information and
pictures about the Solar System, planets asteroids meteors
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pictures about the Solar System, planets asteroids meteors
comets etc. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.
<http://www.solarspace.co.uk/index.php>.
ScienceandSpaceHD. " YouTube - Our Solar System - Size Of
Planets and Stars to Scale ." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. .
N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.
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