By: Christina MaxwellEd 205: Section 03
Traveling Through Space:A Virtual Tour!
What is Out There!?
Mercury
Venus Earth
Mars Jupiter Sun
Neptune Pluto
Saturn Uranus
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The Sun• At the center of our Solar
System!• Provides the Earth with light,
heat & energy• Made up entirely of gas called
Plasma• The sun's radius (distance
from its center to its surface) is about 432,000 miles.
• The visible part of the sun has a temperature of about 5500 degrees C!!
Click the photo to view a video about our Sun!
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Mercury• The planet closest to the
sun• Surface Temperature:
440 Kelvin or 166.85 Celsius
• Average distance from Sun: 36 million miles
• Diameter is 3,030 miles • The smallest planet in
the Solar System• Looks very similar to the
Moon
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Venus
• Planet 2nd closest to the Sun• Average Surface Temperature: 730 Kelvin or 456.85
Celsius• Average distance from Sun: 67.5 million miles• Diameter of Venus: 7,522 miles • Brightest natural object in the sky besides the Moon!
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Earth• Planet 3rd closest to the Sun• Surface Temperature: 287
Kelvin or 13.85 Celsius• Average Distance from Sun:
92.75 million miles• Diameter: 7,926 miles • The only planet in the
universe where life if known to exist!
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Click here to explore more on Google Earth!
Mars• Planet 4th closest to the
Sun!• Average Surface
Temperature: 218 Kelvin or -55.15 Celsius
• Average distance from the Sun: 141.5 million miles
• Diameter: 4,217 miles• The planet most likely to
house liquid water and possibly life! (besides Earth)
Now with Google Earth you can visit the planet Mars! Once you click here to get to Google Earth, make sure to change the planet from Earth to Mars with the small planet icon placed on the top toolbar. Once there, have fun exploring! Can you find any life on Mars?
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Jupiter• Planet 5th closest to the
Sun• Jupiter has no solid
surface, it is made up of hydrogen and helium.
• Average Surface Temperature: 123 Kelvin or -150.15 Celsius
• Average Distance from the Sun: 484 million miles
• Diameter: 88,736 miles• Jupiter is the largest
planet in the solar system!
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Saturn• Planet 6th closest to the Sun• Saturn has seven major rings that are composed of hydrogen and
helium.• Average Surface Temperature: 103 Kelvin or -170.15 Celsius• Average Distance from the Sun: 889 million miles• Diameter: 74,500 miles• The only planet in the solar system that is less dense than water!
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Uranus
• Planet 7th closest to the Sun• Surface Temperature: 73 Kelvin or -200.15 Celsius• Average Distance from the Sun: 1.79 billion miles• Diameter: 32,00 miles• This was the first planet discovered using a telescope! • Nickname: “ice (gas) giant”
“Uranus appears in true colors, left, and false colors, right in images produced by combining numerous pictures taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The false colors emphasize bands of smog around the planet's south pole.” - NASA
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Neptune
• Planet 8th closest to the Sun• Has a blue color that is caused
by methane composition• Average Surface Temperature:
68 Kelvin or -205.15 Celsius• Average Distance from Sun:
2.80 billion miles• Diameter: 30,760 miles• This was the first planet to be
discovered by mathematical prediction rather than observation.
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Pluto• The “9th” planet from the Sun• Average Distance from the
Sun: 3,647,240,000 miles • Astronomers know little
about Pluto’s size because it is so far away. It has an estimated diameter of about 1,400 miles.
• At –225 Celsius or 48.15 Kelvin it is one of the coldest surfaces in the solar system.
• Many believe that Pluto is made up of mostly ice. (The white portions of the picture)
• Is no longer considered a planet in our solar system!
“Pluto is so far from Earth that even powerful telescopes reveal little detail of its surface. The Hubble Space Telescope gathered the light for the pictures of Pluto shown here.” - NASA
Click here to read more about why Pluto is no longer a planet.
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Resources
Video about The Sun:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdLaPhNBOcU&feature=related
Images & Informationhttp://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Google Earth
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About the AuthorHi! I’m Christina Maxwell and I am a senior at Grand Valley State University. I am majoring in Integrated Science which is the reason I chose to do my Interactive PowerPoint on an Astronomy topic. My minor is Elementary Education and I hope to teach in a early elementary aged classroom one day!
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