OUTER SPACE PLANETS!

THE SUN ☀️

• The temperature is 5,778 k
• It is 4.603 billion years old
• It is an almost perfect Sphere
• You can fit 1 million Earths in the sun.
• The sun is actually a yellow dwarf star.
• All the suns colors mixed together appear white to us on earth.
• The distance between the sun and Earth changes throughout the year.

MERCURY

• It takes 88 days for it to orbit the sun.
• It doesn’t have any moons.
• Your weight on Mercury would be 38% of your weight on Earth.
• Mercury is only the second hottest planet
• Only two spacecraft have ever visited Mercury

VENUS

• It has no moons.
• It takes 225 days to orbit the sun.
• Venus is nearly as big as the Earth.
• The temperature can reach 471 *C
• Venus rotates the opposite way than most planets.
• Venus is the hottest planet.

EARTH

• It has one moom
• The Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing
• 4.543 billion years old
• Earth is the third planet from the Sun
• It is the third planet from the sun

MARS

• Mars has 2 moons (Phobos & Deimos)
• It takes 687 days to orbit the sun
• Only 18 missions to Mars have been successful
• Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system
• On Mars the Sun appears about half the size as it does on Earth
• Pieces of Mars have fallen to Earth

JUPITER

• Jupiter has 79 moons!
• Jupiter’s days are only 10 hours long
• Jupiter is the biggest planet
• Jupiter has 4 rings
• It takes 4,333 days to orbit the sun!
• The Great Red Spot is a huge storm on Jupiter

SATURN

• Saturn has 150 moons
• It takes 10,756 days to orbit the sun
• Saturn is the flattest planet
• Saturn has oval-shaped storms similar to Jupiter’s
• A day on Saturn is 10 hours and 42 minutes

URANUS

• It has 27 moons
• It takes 30,687 days for it to orbit the sun
• Uranus hits the coldest temperatures of any planet
• Only one spacecraft has flown by Uranus
• Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours, 14 minutes

NEPTUNE

• It has 14 moons
• It takes 60,190 days to orbit the sun
• Neptune has a very active climate
• Only one spacecraft has flown by Neptune
• Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants

PLUTO

• Pluto is a dwarf planet
• It takes 248 days to orbit the sun
• It has 5 moons
• Pluto is the largest dwarf planet
• Pluto has been visited by one spacecraft

STARS

• Most stars are red dwarfs
• Mass = temperature = color
• Most stars come in multiples
• The most massive stars are the shortest lived
• There are many, many stars

THE MOON

• It takes 27.3 days to orbit the Earth
• The moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth
• On the moon you would weigh one sixth from now.
• Only 12 people have walked on the moon

MOON PHASES