The Solar System

Erica LimerFebruary 25, 2011

Picture Provided By: http://www.universetoday.com/15451/the-solar-system/

The Sun

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/sun.php

•About 10,000 degrees F

•Exists in the center of the Solar System, and is bigger than anything in the Solar System.

Mercury

http://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/a101_planets.html

•Closest to the sun

•Many craters on Mercury

•There is no atmosphere around

Mercury

Atmosphere-

The gases surrounding our planet

which includes the oxygen we

breathe.

Venus

http://shayol.bartol.udel.edu/~rhdt/diploma/lecture_7/

•The Hottest Planet in the Solar System.

Why is this?• Thick atmosphere• The amount of gases in Venus’s

atmosphere makes Venus extremely hot.

• Second Planet from the Sun.

• Earth is a comparable size.

Earth

http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/lectures/earth.htm

• Has an atmosphere (composed of nitrogen and oxygen).

• Has one moon (Luna)

• Around 7 billion people inhabit Earth.

Mars

http://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/a101_planets.html

• Fourth planet from the Sun.

• The last of the four terrestrial planets.

• Could possibly have had life on it at one point in time.

•Many rovers have been sent to Mars to investigate the planet.

Jupiter

http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/solar_system/jupiter.html

• Biggest Planet in the Solar System.

• The red arrow is pointing to the storm on Jupiter that has been occurring for hundreds of years.

• The first of the Jovian planets.

• More than fifty moons, and has rings just like the other Jovian planets.

Saturn

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041225.html

• Second of the Jovian planets, sixth from the sun. • Very noticeable rings

• Made of Hydrogen and Helium

• Many moons

Uranus

http://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/a101_planets.html

• The planet in the solar system that rotates on the side.

• Seventh planet from the sun, and third of the Jovian planets.

• Rings and moons, similar to the other Jovian planets.

Neptune

http://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/a101_planets.html

• Eight and final planet from our Sun.

• Has rings and moons just like the other Jovian planets.

• Has a blue color to it, and is the smallest of the Jovian planets.

Pluto

http://news.cnet.com/pluto-is-a-planet-again-in-illinois/

• New classification as a part of the Kuiper Belt.

• Rock and ice cover the surface.

• Used to be the ninth planet from the Sun.

Milky Way

http://www.thecommentfactory.com/interview-documentary-photographer-jim-richardson-on-meaning-technology-and-kansas-1867/

http://www.utahskies.org/2009/01/07/1564/

Milky Way view from ground on Earth Milky Way Galaxy from outside the Solar System

Asteroid Belt

http://www.odec.ca/projects/2008/wang8c2/regions/asteroid.htm

• Asteroid- A piece of rock in space, that can vary in size.

•Some can be as big as forty miles wide, some can be as small as a penny.

Kuiper Belt

http://science.pppst.com/space/kuiperbelt.html

• The place where Pluto is said to exist, and where the outer layer of asteroids exist.

Comets

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/comets.htm

• A ice and dust ball that comes from near the Kuiper Belt.

• The comet tail is the part at the end of the comet.

Sources and References•http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm•http://www.solarviews.com/eng/solarsys.htm •http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm•http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atmosphere

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