SOLAR SYSTEM by Mika LehtoOur solar system is

very BIG.The solar system

has 8 planets called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

SUNThe sun is a star

and a star is a ball of gas.

Our Sun is a star found at the center of our Solar System.

•Light from the Sun reaches Earth in around 8 minutes.

MERCURYMercury has

craters all over it.It is the closest to

the sun. You moved to

Mercury you would not weigh as much as you do on Earth.

This planet is often called a morning star.

VENUSIt about the size

of Earth.It the 3rd

brightest planet.The planet Venus

has long been one of the most misunderstood of all the inner planets.

EARTH Earth is the

planet we live on.

Earth is the biggest inner planet.

The Earth's temperature and weather are just right to keep us alive.

MARSIt called the red

planet.Mars is very

small.Evidence suggests

that Mars once had rivers.

If you stood on Mars, you would see red dirt and rocks everywhere.

THE ASTEROID BELTA asteroid belt is

made of rocks.The belt is in

between mars and Jupiter.

More than 7000 asteroids have been discovered.

Several hundred more are discovered each year.

JUPTER It the largest

planet in the solar system.

Jupiter has 63 moons.

The Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1000 times.

Jupiter is by far the largest planet.

SATURNSaturn has a ring

around it.Saturn has 31

moons.Because Saturn is

such a lightweight planet and it spins so fast.

In many ways, Saturn is similar to Jupiter , but smaller.

URANUSUranus rotates on its

side.It has 27 moons. Uranus is a gas giant.It is believed that

long ago a very large object smashed into this planet. The crash was so powerful that it completely changed the direction of Uranus' planetary rotation.

NEPTUNENeptune is the

windiest planet.It is a blue

planet. For many

centuries people did not know that this planet even existed.

Neptune is the smallest of the four gas giants.

PLUTO

Pluto is a dwarf planet.It is not a planet anymore. Pluto was the only planet to be named by a kid. After the planet was discovered in 1930, an 11-year-old girl named it!

GALAXYThere are three

kinds of Galaxies, Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular.

are very small with only a few million stars. While others could have as many as 400 billion stars, or even more.

UNIVERSEThe universe has

distant worlds waiting to be explored by future space craft.

Our universe is a large universe and is made of dust, gas, stars, clouds, galaxies, and life.

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