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Transcript 
STARDOME PRESENTS
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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The Earth – our home in space
The Universe of Galaxies
Each galaxy is a
city of stars
Our galaxy – the Milky Way
You are here
Stars in the Milky Way
500 light years
500 light years = 500 x 9 000 000 000 000 kilometres
500 light years = 4 500 000 000 000 000 kilometres!
The Sun – our local star
A sunspot
An area of cooler
gas sinking into the
sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
4 small
rock
planets
4 giant gas planets
Orbits of the inner planets
Orbits of the Outer Planets
Daytime
Mercury
420 degrees
Night
Minus 180
degrees
Meteorite craters
No air
No water
No life
Venus
Shrouded in
clouds
Venus
Uncovered
by radar
Surface of Venus
Acid clouds
Suffocating carbon dioxide
Temperature 500 C
Crushing atmosphere
Earth
Warm
Air
Water
Life
Seasons on Earth
Summer
Sun
Winter
Long days
Short days
Short Nights
Long nights
Sunset
over
Europe
The Moon
Phases of
the Moon
Sunlight
Just one small step…..
MARS
Meteorite craters
Valleys
Volcanoes
MARS, THE RED PLANET
The face on Mars?
Surface of Mars
Thin carbon dioxide atmosphere
Temperature minus 20 degrees C
Water frozen into soil
Water on Mars
Mars from orbit
Showing river
channels made by
water long ago
Surface of Mars from the Spirit lander
Mars Express:
Volcanic crater 1 km wide
A human landing on Mars – maybe by 2020?
Asteroids
Meteorite Crater, Arizona
Deep Impact
Jupiter – gas giant
60 moons
The 4 great moons of Jupiter
Io
Europa
Ganymede
A world of
volcanoes
Ice
covered
Ice covered,
largest moon
in the Solar
System
Water
beneath
the ice?
Callisto
Ice surface,
Covered in
craters
Saturn, Lord of the Rings
Titan
30 Moons
15 January 2005:
Huygens spacecraft
lands on Titan
TITAN
The only moon
known to have an
atmosphere.
URANUS: 21 moons
Uranus
A planet knocked
on its side
NEPTUNE: 11 Moons
Planet 10 ?
Sedna
Diameter: 1600 km
Distance from Sun:
13 billion km
Not a planet: one of many icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt
beyond Pluto
PLUTO
Charon
COMET
A space
iceberg
The Oort Cloud
of comets
COMET HALE-BOPP
1997
Gas tail
Dust tail
Meteor – shooting star
12 August
13 December
Meteor Storm !
The Solar System
Nine wonderful worlds
SOLAR SYSTEM
Is a
STARDOME PRODUCTION
By
DENNIS ASHTON, FRAS
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