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Exploring Our Solar System: Planets & More

This document provides an overview of the planets in our solar system and other celestial bodies, including the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It discusses key facts about each planet such as their size, composition, distance from the Sun, and notable features. It also briefly mentions Halley's Comet.

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Exploring Our Solar System: Planets & More

This document provides an overview of the planets in our solar system and other celestial bodies, including the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It discusses key facts about each planet such as their size, composition, distance from the Sun, and notable features. It also briefly mentions Halley's Comet.

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HELLO, MY SUPER

SCIENTESTS!
Lets talk about our planets!
WHAT WILL WE BE REVIEWING?
 Sun
 Mercury
 Venus
 Mars
 Asteroid belt
 Jupiter
 Saturn
 Uranus
 Neptune
 Pluto
OUR SUN IS A STAR
•Made of mainly Hydrogen
•It takes 8 minutes for the sun’s light to reach Earth!

•In the center of our solar systems gravity

•Emits heat through a


process called nuclear
fission
MERCURY IS NUMBER 1!

•Closest planet to
the sun

•Named after the


swift Roman god

•Smallest planet
VENUS

•2nd planet from the sun

•Easiest planet to see from


Earth

•Same size from Earth

•Has clouds of sulfuric acid


MARS
AKA
THE RED PLANET

•Mars is red
because of the
iron in the soil

•Why is this
planet red? •Has the tallest volcano in
the solar system
•4th planet “Olympus Mons”
from the sun
ASTEROID BELT

•Located
between
the two
planets
Mars and
Jupiter
JUPITER IS THE SPOT
•Jupiter is the largest
planet in our solar system

•It is the fastest spinning


planet in our solar system

•It has the great red spot,


which is

•Jupiter has 63 moons

•Jupiter is the 5th planet


from the sun
SATURN IS A RINGER

•Saturn is the 2nd


largest planet

•Saturn is the 6th


from the sun

•It has huge rings that are


made of rock, ice,
and dust
NEPTUNE IS LOOKING BLUE
•7th planet from the sun

•Neptune is
•Named the coldest
after the planet in
Greek/Roman the solar
god of the Sea system
URANUS
•8th and furthest planet
from the sun

•The light from the sun


takes more than 5 hours
to get to Uranus

•It has a thin set of vertical


rings
PLUTO NOT THE DOG, BUT NOT
A PLANET EITHER
•Pluto is a dwarf planet

•In 2006 the International


Astronomical Union took
Pluto’s planet status away

•A dwarf planet still orbits the


sun like the other planet
THE MOST FAMOUS COMET NOT
ON EARTH!

Halley’s Comet

We can see this comet every 75-76 years!


That is once per life time!

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