Our Solar SystemBy: 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

EarthIt 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

MercuryPlanet closest to the Sun

800 degrees in daytime

300 degrees below at night

Second smallest

Has no moon unlike Earth

VenusVenus gets hotter than Mercury around 860 degrees

Thick atmosphere

Second closet planet

In a telescope can phase like the moon

Rotates east to west

Mars4.6 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

Jupiter484 millions miles from the Sun

Beautiful colors

85% hydrogen 15% helium

Similar to Sun

Largest plant

1.3 dense in water

SaturnSecond 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

UranusGas giant

1.8 billions miles from the Sun

Has 27 moons

Average day is 17.2 hours

Has a magnetic field

NeptuneSurface temperature -350 degrees

Core extremely hot

Winds are 1,200 mph

Volume of 60 Earths

Methane causes color

SunCenter of Solar System

4.5 billions years old

Star

99% mass of Solar System

16 millions degrees Kelvin

383 billion trillion kilowatts of energy

Sourceshttp://cosmicdiary.org/blogs/arif_solmaz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/solar_system1.jpg

http://www.astronomy-for-kids-online.com/thesun.html