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The Solar System

The Solar System. Mercury. Mercury fully rotates (One day) once every 58.646 Earth days Mercury Orbits the sun faster than any other planet A full orbit around the sun (one year) is about 88 Earth days Mercury has no atmosphere

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The Solar System

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  1. TheSolarSystem

  2. Mercury • Mercury fully rotates (One day) once every 58.646 Earth days • Mercury Orbits the sun faster than any other planet • A full orbit around the sun (one year) is about 88 Earth days • Mercury has no atmosphere • During daytime surface temperatures can reach 430 degrees Celsius • During nighttime surface temperatures can drop to -170 degrees Celsius • It is the solar system’s smallest planet • The surface is heavily cratered from meteor and comet impacts

  3. Venus • Often known as Earth’s “sister” planet • Venus's atmosphere consists mainly of carbon dioxide • Venus orbits the sun (one year) once every 225 earth days • Venus rotates on it’s axis (one day) once every 117 earth days • About 90 percent of the surface of Venus is recently hardened lava • More than a thousand volcanoes or volcanic centers all over the planet • Rivers of lava flow over the surface due to high volcanic activity • From Earth Venus appears to be the brightest planet in the sky

  4. Earth • The only planet known to support life • Rotates on it’s axis (one day) every 24 hours • Orbits the sun once (one year) about every 365 days • Has a diameter of 12 756 kilometres • About 70% of the planet is covered by water • Temperatures go from about -88 degrees Celsius to 58 degrees Celsius • Earth has just one moon

  5. Mars • Iron in the soil gives reddish-brown colour • Mars rotates on its axis (one day) once every 24 hours, 37 minutes • Mars orbits the sun (one year) once every 687 days • Has a diameter of about 6795 kilometers, so about half of Earth • Known for giant dust storms on the surface • Scientists are currently trying to find large sources of water under the surface, so that Mars may support life • Home to the largest volcanic mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons • Two moons, Deimos and Phobos

  6. Jupiter • The largest planet in the solar system (diameter of 142 984 kilometers) • Jupiter rotates on its axis (one day) once every 9 hours, 56 minutes • Jupiter orbits the sun (one year) once every 4 331 days • Jupiter is home to at least 49 known moons of various sizes • The many stripes and streaks are storm systems that can rage for years • The Great Red Spot is a giant spinning storm, and has been observed for more than 300 years • Jupiter is a gas giant, with an atmosphere of mostly Hydrogen and Helium • Jupiter’s solid core of ice-rock at the center is about the size of Earth • Jupiter has rings beneath the surface of gas, formed mostly by debris

  7. Saturn • Best known for its highly visible rings of mostly ice • a gas giant like Jupiter, Saturn is made up of hydrogen and helium • Has a diameter of about 230 537 kilometers • Rotates on its axis (one day) every 10 hours, 39 minutes • Orbits the sun (one year) once every 10 759 days • Fast winds and heat storms in the upper atmosphere create bands and stripes • Winds can (500 meters) per second (Fastest on Earth is about 110 meters a second)

  8. Uranus • Uranus, with no solid surface, is one of the gas giant planets • Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas in the atmosphere • Uranus's rotation axis is nearly horizontal; meaning it rotates sideways, as if it were tipped over • There are 11 rings present around the gas giant • Rotates on its axis (one day) once every 17 hours, 15 minutes • Orbits the sun (one year) once every 30 867 days • The average surface temperature is -216 degrees celsius

  9. Neptune • It is invisible to the naked eye because of its extreme distance from Earth • Uranus's blue-green color is also the result of atmospheric methane • Neptune's winds are three times stronger than Jupiter's and nine times stronger than Earth's • This hurricane-like Great Dark Spot is large enough to contain the entire Earth • Neptune has 13 known moons, and six rings • Neptune rotates on its axis (one day) every 16 hours, 7 minutes • Orbits the sun (one year) once every 60 190 days

  10. Pluto • No longer considered a planet, Pluto is now just a dwarf planet • Pluto is about 30% smaller than Earth’s moon • Rotates on its axis (one day) once every 153 hours, 18 minutes • Orbits the sun (one year) once every 90 553 days • Very stable temperature, ranging from -233 to -223 degrees Celsius • The dwarf planet is a whopping 5.9 BILLION kilometers from the sun • Was known as the ninth full planet until 2006

  11. The Sun • All planets in our solar system orbit the sun! • Has a diameter of about 1.4 million kilometers; it could hold 109 planet Earths across its surface • Deep in the sun's core, nuclear fusion reactions convert hydrogen to helium, which generates energy • It is already about 4.5 billion years old and has used up nearly half of the hydrogen in its core • Surface temperature of about 5 538 degrees celsius • Rotates on it’s axis (one day) once every 609 hours, 7 minutes

  12. Earth’s Moon • Completely orbits earth every 27 days, 7 hours • The moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system • The moon has a quarter the diameter of Earth and 1⁄81 its mass • It is in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing the same side! • The Moon's gravitational pull produces the Earth’s ocean tides • Marked by many craters from impacts caused by asteriods and meteors • The only solar body which man has travelled to as of this day

  13. Bibliography • http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system • www.wikipedia.org

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