Our Solar System By: Aspen Cushing
To Begin… Nine planets We live on plant Earth All the planets orbit around the Sun due to a gravitational pull This is our Solar System
Earth It is said to look like a “Giant blue marble with puffy clouds” We are the only planet to have life We have 365 days a year here and 24 hours in an entire day Earth is mostly covered by water
Mercury Planet closest to the Sun 800 degrees in daytime 300 degrees below at night Second smallest Has no moon unlike Earth
Venus Venus gets hotter than Mercury around 860 degrees Thick atmosphere Second closet planet In a telescope can phase like the moon Rotates east to west
Mars 4.6 Billions years old 141 million miles from Sun Fourth plant Witness season changes from a telescope Average temperature -67 degree Day little over 24 hours
Jupiter 484 millions miles from the Sun Beautiful colors 85% hydrogen 15% helium Similar to Sun Largest plant 1.3 dense in water
Saturn Second largest plant Can be seen from a telescope Ring can stretch 84,000 miles Rings made of ice and other particles Covered with bands of colors Day is 10 hours 39 minutes
Uranus Gas giant 1.8 billions miles from the Sun Has 27 moons Average day is 17.2 hours Has a magnetic field
Neptune Surface temperature -350 degrees Core extremely hot Winds are 1,200 mph Volume of 60 Earths Methane causes color
Sun Center of Solar System 4.5 billions years old Star 99% mass of Solar System 16 millions degrees Kelvin 383 billion trillion kilowatts of energy
Sources http://cosmicdiary.org/blogs/arif_solmaz/ wpcontent/uploads/2009/06/solar_system1. jpg http://www.astronomy-for-kidsonline.com/thesun.html