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Jane Sayers. The Solar System. The Solar System. The planets orbit the Sun. Humans have visited or orbited around each planet . Mercury , Venus, Earth and Mars are made up of mostly rock and metal .
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Jane Sayers The Solar System
The planetsorbit the Sun. • Humans have visited or orbitedaroundeachplanet. • Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are made up of mostly rock and metal. • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are mostly made up of hydrogen, helium and othergases. Facts about the solar system
Click Here to hear the sun!! Sun The sun is one large star.
DID YOU KNOW? • That Venus is the hottest planet. • There could never be life on Venus. • It is the brightest planet in the solar system Venus
E a r t h The Facts!! Thought a day was 24 hours nope actually a day is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. The Earth is Not Round!! This is correct, the Earth is flattened at the North and South poles. The Earth is made up off70% of water.
DID YOU KNOW? Mars is the one planet that everyone is most interested in because it is believed to be able to host humanlife. There are a variety of movies based on human life living on Mars such as Total Recall and Red Planet. Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars is over three times the height of Mount Everest. Mars What is an astronauts favourite chocolate bar? A Mars Bar
J u p i t e r The biggest planet. 318 times bigger than Earth. WHOA!!!!
Famous For… Saturn
U r a n u s A summer on Uranus lasts one long day – 42 Earth years but so does winter.
Neptune The winds on Neptune are so strong they could rip a building to tiny pieces in seconds. Click here
P l u t o ? Poor little Pluto is no longer considered a planet although at one time it was considered our smallest planet in our solar system.
Resources www.universetoday.com www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1021&bih=511&q=solar+system&oq=solar+syst&gs_l=img.3.0.0l10.2299.4585.0.7496.10.8.0.2.2.0.213.1096.2j5j1.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.2.img.Qm4AWJt3T1o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PazmXWSOchw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwDdTZBAEY