Name: Adrian

Our Solar System

Please research and find out more about the planets in our solar system. Please
include where you found the information.
Sun
The sun is a huge ball of gases like
hydrogen (about 70%) and helium
(about 28%). Carbon, nitrogen oxygen
is about 1.5 percent of its gasses, some
solid masses like iron and Nicole takes
up the last 0.5 percent.
The sun is also one of the big keys of
life without the sun our earths oceans
would be frozen grave-yards and the
whole eco-system would fall apart and
no life would be supported.
Did you know that the sun is so big that
you can put 1,300,000 earths inside the
sun?
There can be lots of ways to destroy the
earth but one of the most violent
occasions would be: turn of the
magnetic-field. First of all there would
be instant vaporization because the
suns heat waves (the lava that leaps
out of the sun shooting toward the
earth or other planets) will plummet our
earth and the earth will probably end
up like mars, so the sun is half our ally
and half our enemy.
The sun produces light by a nuclear
reaction called fusion. As atoms of
hydrogen combine forming helium
which produces a lot of energy and
light.
Did you know the central core of the
sun, where heat and light are produced,
has a temperature of 15 million
degrees?

Mercury
Mercury was named after a roman god
who was the messenger of other gods.
One year on Mercury is 88 Earth days.
Maximum temperature 465c Minimum
temp. -184c
Distance from sun: 57 million
kilometers
Mercurys gravity is much less than
Earth. 32 kg is 12 kg on Mercury
Can be seen from Earth early morning
or early evening
Mercury has a molten core (hot lava
that is solid and is the source of the
gravity)

Sources:
coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/.../4-What-is-thesun-made-out-of
http://space-facts.com/how-big-is-thesun-million-earths/

Sources:
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/mercury.
htm

Please research and find out more about the planets in our solar system:
Jupiter
Jupiter is the 5th from the sun, and also
largest planet in our solar system.
Jupiter is not known as a terrestrial planet,
(the terrestrial planets are mercury to mars)
but its known as a gas giant or Jovian planet.
On our way through the solar system we
were through hell (sun),minimized
(mercury),boiled(Venus), had a drink of
water (no seriously), through millions of sand
storms (mars) and through the gateway to
the outer part of our solar system (Asteroid
belt) and now here we are on the biggest
planet of our solar system.
Jupiter is famous in many different ways
1. Has the most violent storms in the
solar system like its big red spot which
is much bigger than earth and is going
on for at least 300 years
2. Its gas giant
3. It has many moons
4. Its the biggest planet in our solar
system

Venus
Venus is the second planet from
the sun and is the second
brightest object in the night sky
after the moon.
It is named after the god of love
and beauty.
Venus is the second largest
terrestrial planet and is also known
as our earths sister planet due to
their similar size and mass as well.
Venus surface temperature is 462
degrees and it takes Venus 224.70
earth days to go around the sun
once.
Venus atmosphere is more than
96 percent carbon dioxide and
about 3.5 percent molecular
nitrogen. Trace amounts of other
gasses are present, including
carbon monoxide water-vapour
and much more and if you are
wandering why Venus is so cloudy
it is because of all the watervapour inside its atmosphere.

Sources:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsyst
em/solar_system_highlights/atmosphere_of_j
upiter
the universe series (movie)

Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun
Mars is a very interesting planet and
scientists believe that it can hold life.
Mars atmosphere has 2% of oxygen
(what?), 95.3% of carbon dioxide and
2.7 percent of nitrogen.
What makes mars so interesting? Well
maybe because it has water (frozen) at
its poles.
And even more interesting is that
scientists checked mars past and
amazingly mars had a very strong
magnetic field (even stronger than
earths!). Even today there are small
gaps of magnetic field areas around the

Sources:
http://space-facts.com/venus/
http://global.britannica.com/EBche
cked/topic/625665/Venus/54178/T
he-atmosphere

Saturn
Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun
and is the second largest planet in our
solar system.
Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings
that is visible from earth with a normal
telescope and not like Jupiters rings
Uranus rings or Neptunes rings where
it is only visible with special Gama ray
and x-ray telescopes but it is visible
with a normal one.
The rings are the key to Saturns
beauty But what are we really looking
at well it is chaos, icy asteroids and
rocky particles which has gone into
orbit with Saturn is the true beauty we

planet which means it may have

contained life on it a VERY long time
ago.
Mars is practically a frozen desert and
believe me as bad as a desert is you do
not want to go there. Mars also have
two moons Phobos and Deimos. Most
scientist believe that these two moons
may have been asteroids that went in
orbit around mars a long time ago,
which explains why they arent round
and sphere shaped.

see from earth. This mini asteroid belt

around Saturn is like a roller rink where
there are a lot of people pushing each
other falling over each other and its just
total chaos!
Saturn was named after the roman god
agriculture.
Saturns average temperature is -288
degrees Fahrenheit (-178 degrees Celsius),
most of the heat comes from the inner core
that from the sun because it is so far away.

Sources:
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/
79-Mars-atmosphere
also brain-pop

Sources:
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/
115-How-did-Saturn-get-its-namehttp://www.space.com/18473-saturntemperature.html

Neptune
Uranus is the eighth planet from the
sun and also the farthest planet from

Uranus
Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun
and the amazing thing about Uranus is

the sun This Gas giant may have

formed closer to the sun until migrating
to its present position.
All the planets from Jupiter to Neptune
have rings which we know of. Some not
visible with the naked eye and must be
seen with a special telescope with xrays and gamma rays. Neptune has 5
rings.
Neptune also have moons, one of
Neptunes moons (Triton) was
discovered by William Lassell in 1849
one day after the discovery of Neptune,
it was more than 100 years before a
second moon was found although it has
14 moons we know of. Neptune is also
the windiest planet in our solar system
and its blue is colour again means there
is water in its upper atmosphere.
Neptunes surface temperature is -201
Celsius so although Neptune is farthest
away from the sun it is not the coldest.

that it lies on its side!

Its tipped on its side with axial tilt of98
degrees, it is usually described rolling
around the sun on its side
Uranus is not visible with the naked eye
so this planet is one of the first planets
discovered by telescope.
Uranus is much bigger than earth and is
also known as an ice giant because it is
one of the coldest planets in the solar
system, in fact it is the coldest planet in
the solar system!!so if you want to go
there you wont be able to stand on it
but just fall right through it(and freeze
to death). Amazingly this planet is
covered in a stain of turquois blue
which means there is water on this
planet well maybe not liquid (there is in
the upper atmosphere though) because
the temperature over there is at least
-243 Fahrenheit (-153 Celsius) down to
-370 F(-218 Celsius).
Uranus is tilted on its side because it
was hit into place by some kind of an
asteroid collision right after it was
formed causing the poles to point
toward the sun.

Sources: http://spacefacts.com/neptune/ http://spacefacts.com/moons/#neptune

Sources: http://space-facts.com/uranus/
http://www.space.com/18707-uranustemperature.html

Pluto
Pluto is the 9th object
orbiting the sun from the
sun and also the second
dwarf-planet from the
sun. Discovered in 1930,
then it still was a planet
and named by an eleven
year old girl Pluto later
the dog pluto in mickey
mouse was named after
this brilliant discovery

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