Download Space - by Georgia, Emily and Issy

The Sun is one out of billions of stars and
the Sun is the closest star to Earth. The Sun
is now a middle-aged star, meaning it is at
about the middle of its life. The Sun formed
over 4.5 billion years ago. You may think the
Sun will die soon, but it will keep shining for
at least another five billion years. The Sun’s
diameter is about 870,000 miles wideand
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Did
you know
109 times wider than the Earth. The sun
Mercury has no
atmosphere which
is also 333,000 times heavier than the
means there is no
wind or weather to
Earth. This means if you put the Sun
speak of.
on a scale, you would need 333,000 objects
that weigh as much as the Earth on the
other side to make it balance.
Mercury is the closest to the sun and it
is 58,000,000km away from the sun.
Mercury also has a diameter of 4,880km.
On this planet there are no moons and only
one half of the planet sees the sun. The
side of Mercury facing the Sun can get up
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to 426 degrees Celsius.
Did you know
Mercury has no
atmosphere which
means there is no
wind or weather to
speak of.
Most people think that Mercury is the hottest
planet in the solar system, but thinking that
is not write. Mercury isn’t the hottest planet
in the Solar System, Venus is and here is
why. Unlike Mercury, Venus is covered in a
thick atmosphere that traps the Suns’ heat
like a greenhouse. Venus is
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107,826,050 km away from the
Did you know Venus
and Mercury are the
only planets in the
sun and it has a diameter of
solar system without
a moon.
12,000km. Venus is 460 degrees
Celsius. Venus is also 4.5 billion
years old.
Earth is149,669,000km away from the sun
and has a diameter of 12,755km. Earth has 1
moon and the temperature on Earth is -89
degrees Celsius to 71 degrees Celsius. Earth
is te 5th largest planet in the solar system
being bigger than Venus, Mercury and Mars.
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Not including Pluto because of Did youFunknow
Earth
is
the
only
planet
in
it now being a Dwarf Planet.
the solar system
known to have life.
The Moon is the Earth’s only natural
satellite and was formed 4.6 billion
years. The Moon always has the
same side of it’s surface facing the
Earth. The first mission to the Moon
was in 1959 by the Soviet Lunar. He
was also American.
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Did you know the
Moon orbits the
Earth every 27.3
days.
Out of all the planets in the Solar System
(apart from Earth), Mars is the one that people
believe is most likely to contain or to have
contained life. The largest volcano in the Solar
System is on Mars. It is called Olympus Moons.
Mars is believed to have had water flowing
around it, like Earth once. It may have had a
blue sky too. However, it is
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Mars
is the closest
unlikely that it had grass,
Planet to Earth
trees and plants like Earth
has now.
Jupiter has a liquid metal ocean (metallic
hydrogen) at its centre, surrounded by
thousands of kilometres of hydrogen and
helium gas. Jupiter has a thin set of
rings, hardly visible, even with
telescopes, from Earth. Jupiter takes only
9 hours and 55 minutes to spin on its
axis. This means a day on Jupiter is less
than 10 hours long. Its fast
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Jupiter is the largest
rotation causes the planet
planet in our Solar
system.
to be squashed, being wider
at the equator than from
North to South.
Saturn is 1,427,500,000km away from the sun
and has a diameter of 120,665km. This planet
is 4.5billion years old. It has a 60 moons and
the highest clouds can get up to -150 degrees
Celsius. The core of Saturn can get up to
11,700 degrees Celsius.
Fun Fact
Did you know
Saturn is the only
planet in our solar
system with visible
rings.
Uranus has 27 moons. Ten of these were
discovered in 1986. Uranus was the first
(Not including Earth) planet in the Solar
System. Almost all of the moons of
Uranus are named after characters in plays
written by Shakespeare. The two moons of
Uranus that are not named after
Shakespeareare characters (Arlel
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Uranus was the first planet
and Umbriel) are Named after
discovered by telescope.
characters in a book called
"The Rape of the Lock« .
At first, Neptune was only the god of water, but
later on this was extended to include the sea
when he became associated with the Greek god
Poseidon. The planet Neptune was discovered in
1846.. Neptune's atmosphere is made up of
hydrogen, helium and methane. The methane in
Neptune's upper atmosphere.
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Neptune is a large
planet, nearly four
times the size of Earth.
Pluto isn’ t a planet any more, but it’s still a very
interesting “dwarf planet” in the Solar System.
You might have heard that Pluto has a large
moon called Charon , but did you know that it
actually has 3 moons in total. Charon is the large
one, with a mass of half that of Pluto’s. If you
think Pluto is named after a Disney character,
you’re wrong. It’s actually named
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after the Roman god of the
In 2006 Pluto was
demoted to the status
underworld.
of dwarf planet.
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