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.• Uninhabitable

Venus

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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