MERCURY

• One day=58 earth days
• One year=88days
• It has no moons
• Distance from sun=57.9k

MERCURY FACTS

• If you weigh 100lb on earth you would weigh 37lb on mercury
• It is the most iron rich planet in our solar system
• Its surface if heavily cratered

VENUS

• One day=243 earth days
• One year=.165 days
• It is 108,208,930 km from the sun
• It has no moons

VENUS FACTS

• The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid
• It has higher mountains the earth does
• Its atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide

EARTH

• One day=24 hours
• One year=365 days
• It has one moon
• It is 149,597,890 km from the sun

EARTH FACTS

• The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
• The earth rotates on its axis more slowly in March than in September
• The temperature of the Earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down

MARS

• One day=one earth days
• One year=687 earth days
• It has two moons
• It is 227,936,640 km from the sun

MARS FACTS

• A year on mars I twice as long as it if on earth.
• Mars outshines every other planet apart from Venus
• In winter, nighttime temperatures on Mars can drop as low as -191°

JUPITER

• One day=.41354 earth days
• One year=11 earth years
• It has 66 mons
• It is 778,340,821 km from the sun

JUPITER FACTS

• Jupiter's volume is large enough to contain 1,300 planets the size of Earth
• Jupiter rotates faster than any planet in the Solar Systems war
• Jupiter is covered by an ocean of hydrogen with a sludge-like consistency

SATURN

• One day=.444 earth days
• One year=29 earth years
• It has 62 moons
• It is 1,426,666,422 km from the sun

SATURN FACTS

• Saturn's rings are made up of billions of pieces of rocks and dust
• Galileo was the first astronomer to observe Saturn's rings
• Titan is also larger than the planet Mercury

NEPTUNE

• One day=.671earth dys
• One year=164 earth years
• It has 14 moons
• It is 4,498,396,441 km from the sun

NEPTUNE FACTS

• Neptune is so far away that it took the space probe Voyager 2, 12 years to reach it
• Neptune is 30 times farther from the sun as is the Earth
• Neptune is a sea blue color due to the methane gas in its atmosphere

URANUS

• One day=.718 earth days
• One year=85 years
• It has 27 moons
• It is 2,870,658,186 km from the sun

URANUS FACTS

• Uranus mass is more than 14 times larger than Earth
• Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system
• It is the second least dense planet after Saturn

SUN

• The sun is basically just a massive star.
• Another big ball of burning gas, except this
• one has its own gravitational pull.
• The sun is ten million degrees on the surface.
• Since the sun is a star, it will eventually blow up.

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THE ASTROID BELT

• An astroid belt are actually just rocks that
• Lay in between the orbit of mars and Jupiter.
• It is hard to see because it is made of mostly small stuff.
• Part of it may have hit earth in the past.

ASTROID BELT

KUIPER BELT

• This is part of our universe where it is shaped more like
• an eclipse.
• It consists of mostly comets.
• It is about 50AU away from the sun

KUIPER BELT

HALEY'S COMET

• Haley's comet is a big peace of rock
• orbiting the sun
• Edmund Halley discovered the comet in 1705
• After he saw it, he predicted that it would come around
• again because of Newton's first law, witch it did

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