Download Document

BY: Lorena arvayo
The Sun Planets!!
The sun
• The sun contains 99.86% of the mass of the
entire solar system.
• It powerful gravity attracts everything else in
the solar system towards it.
• The sun has dark areas called sunspots .
• The sunspots are cooler than the rest of the
sun.
Mercury
• Mercury is 36 million miles away from the
sun!
• Mercury moves at 107,373 miles per hour!
• Mercury is much like Earth’s moon with it’s
craters and rocky surface.
Venus
• Venus is so close to Earth in size that it’s often
called Earths twin.
• Venus is the hottest planet !!
• Venus is also the brightest planet!
EARTH!!
• Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun!!
• Earth has 21% oxygen in it’s atmosphere.
• It takes Earth 365.26 Earth days to orbit the
sun!!
MARS
• Mars Is nicknamed the red planet because it
has a mineral called iron oxide present on its
surface .
• It takes mars 687days to orbit the sun.
• During a mars winter 20%of the air is frozen!!
JUPITER
• Jupiter is composed of hilum and hydrogen,
ammonia and methane.
• It takes twelve Earth years to orbit around the
sun!!
• Jupiter is the largest planet, Jupiter is a huge
ball of gas and liquid.
Saturn
• Saturn’s many moons including Titan, which is
the second largest in the solar system. It is the
only known moon in the solar system which is
known to have a atmosphere.
• It takes 29.5 Earth years to orbit the sun.
• Saturn is 890 miles from the Earth!
stars
Stars
stars
• There are around 200billion stars in the milky
way alone!
• The nearest star to our solar system is 4.2light
years away.
• One of the smallest known stars in our galaxy
is VB10,it is only around 20% Larger than
Jupiter.
Uranus
• The center of Uranus is a frozen mass of
methane and ammonia Which gives the
planet a blue –green color.
• Uranus has 13 rings ,URANUS has faint rings
the inner rings are narrow and dark and the
outer rings are brightly colored.
• IT takes Uranus 84 Earth years to orbit the
sun.
Neptune
• It takes Neptune 165 Earth years to orbit the
sun.
• THE climate is very active with large storms
whirling through the atmosphere.
• Their can be high-speed winds that reach
1,342miles per hour.
moon
Moon
• The moon is about 384,000km away from
Earth.
• The moon on average is about 150million
kilometers from the sun.
• The moon is earths only large satellite.
asteroid
• Some asteroids have moons of their own!
• The first space craft to take a close up image
of asteroids was NASA’S Galileo in 1991 .
• Asteroids are rich and precious metals, as well
as water.
Thank you for watching!!