The Eight Planets of the Solar System

Your First Step into our cosmic neighbors.

By: Philip Bernard

Quick Fun Song about the Solar System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAqT4hXnMw

The Sun

Facts:• The Sun is in fact a Star.

• The Sun is 110 times wider than The earth

• The Sun provides light to all objects and planets in the solar system.

• Provides heat to the planets it reaches in our solar system.

• The light from the sun take 8 minutes to reach Earth.

• The temperature of the Sun:

Outside: over 9000 degrees Fahrenheit

Inside: over 13 million degrees Fahrenheit

Sun

Heat and Light

Earth

Mercury

Facts:• Closest Planet to the Sun

• A year on Mercury is only 88 days.

• Temperature: • A cool 750 Degrees Fahrenheit in

the day

• A warm -328 degrees Fahrenheit at night.

• Mercury can be seen at night without a telescope

• Surface is covered in craters due to comic collisions and is not able to hold life.

• No Satellites (Moons)

Sun

Earth

Mercury

Venus

Facts:• One year on Venus is 224 days on

Earth.

• The brightest planet visible from Earth without a telescope and can even be seen in the daytime.

• No Satellites (Moons)

• Hottest planet in the Solar System at a whopping 860 degrees Fahrenheit.

• UninhabitableVenus

Atmosphere

Solar rays(Heat)

Greenhouse Effect

Earth

Facts:• Only planet in the Solar System that has liquid water.

• Only planet that has life inside our solar system.

• Has one satellite orbiting around planet that we call the Moon.

• 365 days to finish a single year

• The slight tilt of the Earth is what gives us the seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

• The only planet that contains an atmosphere and over 21% oxygen which allows us all to breath.

Mars

Facts:• The Last of the inner planets also known as the Terrestrial planets.

• One year on Mars is Aprox. 687 days.

• Temperature during the day get around a scorching 23 degrees Fahrenheit, -125 degrees Fahrenheit at night.

• Home to the biggest mountain in the Solar System called Olympus Mons.

• Has no Atmosphere.

• No Satellites orbiting around planet.

• Known as the Red planet due to its color.

• Shows signs of polar ice caps, but the caps were lost long ago when the Atmosphere disappeared causing them to melt and ultimately disappear.

The Inner (Terrestrial) Planets video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84RYcXiwK6Q

Jupiter

Facts:• The largest planet in the Solar System.

• One Earth Year on Jupiter is 11.9 years or just over 4,344 Earth days.

• The location known as the Red Spot is actually a continuously raging storm that never ends.

• Jupiter is the biggest Gas Giant in the Solar System.

• There are 64 satellites orbiting this massive planet.

Saturn

Facts:• One of three planets in the Solar

System to have rings.

• Saturn has 18 moons orbiting around it.

• Second Largest Planet in the Solar System after Jupiter.

• It takes 29.5 years to orbit the Sun.

• There are three main groups of rings labeld A, B, and C, but there are also thinner rings within those.

• The rings are made up of small pieces of satellites and planets that have been impacted along with space dust and ice caught in Saturn’s orbit.

Uranus

Facts:• Can only be seen using a Telescope

• Has 27 satellites orbiting.

• Takes 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

• Uranus is the smallest of the Gas Giant, but is still bigger than the earth.

• Has rings but are very feint to see.

• It’s rings are not horizontal like its brother Saturn, instead they are more vertical theorized to have happened after the planet was hit by a large object.

Neptune

Facts:• It takes 165 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

• 13 satellites orbit the planet.

• Neptune’s Satellite Triton orbits in the opposite direction that Neptune turns in.

• Last and smallest Gas Giant in the Solar System.

• Has received new and feint rings, six in all, over the years.

• So stormy that winds get upwards of over 1000 MPH

• Neptune is 17 times larger than Earth

Class Assignment:Step 1) Individually go to the NASA website, listed below, and explore the Solar System using the web tool NASA has created.Step 2) Find a Planet that you like and draw a picture using colored pencils and markers.Step 3) Teach your classmates next to you what you have learned about that planet. Step 4) Group discussion

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/#

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