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Our Solar System
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The Solar System
• Our solar system is located in the
Milky Way Galaxy.
• It is made up of planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids and comets.
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The Sun
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•The sun is a star.
•It is the largest object in our solar system.
•The sun is 4.5 billion years old.
•It’s surface temperature is 27 million degrees.
Sunspots
Solar eclipse
The Sun
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Mercury
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Mercury• It is the closest planet to the
sun, but not the hottest.• It’s surface is heavily
cratered from meteoroids and asteroids crashing into it.
• The surface temperature on the dark side of Mercury is
–300 degrees F.
Mariner 10visited Mercury
Cratered surface
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Venus
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Venus• Named for the goddess of love
and beauty.• Earth’s sister planet- similar
in size, mass, density, and volume.
• There are 243 Earth days to 1 Venus day.
• The surface temperature is 900 degrees F. , making it the hottest planet in our system.Views from
different satellites.
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Earth
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Earth• Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
• Seventy percent of the Earth is covered in water.
• The Earth’s atmosphere keeps the temperatures steady.
• As far as we know, it is the only planet with life.
Horn of Africa
North America
Earth & moon
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Mars
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Mars• Known as “The Red Planet”.
• Average surface temperature is –67 degrees F.
• Mars has permanent ice caps on both poles.
• Olympus Mons- largest mountain in our solar system.
Polar ice cap
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Jupiter
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Jupiter• It’s the largest planet in our
solar system.
• It is a gas planet- it doesn’t have a solid surface.
• The Great Red Spot is a complex storm moving in a counter-clockwise direction.
• Jupiter’s moon, Io, has exploding volcanoes on it.
Jupiter’s ring
Four moons
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Saturn
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Saturn• Saturn has the most moons of
all the planets.• It’s rings are made up of
water ice and rocky particles with icy coatings.
• Saturn is easily visible at night from Earth.
• One Earth day on Saturn is 10 hours, 40 minutes.
Rings in false color
Saturn and moons
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Uranus
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Uranus• Uranus is 1.78 billion miles
from the sun.
• It is made mostly of rock and ice.
• It lies on its side, possibly the result from a collision with a planet sized body.
Uranus’ ring
Uranus and moons
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Neptune
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Neptune• Neptune orbits the sun every
165 years.
• It can be seen from Earth with binoculars.
• Near the Great Dark Spot, winds blow up to 1,200 miles an hour.
• It’s moon, Triton, is the coldest object in the solar system.Great Dark Spot
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Pluto
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Pluto• Pluto is the smallest and coldest
planet, temperatures get as low as –235 degrees C.
• It is the only planet not visited by any space craft.
• It is 3,666 million miles from the sun.
• Not much is know about Pluto.
Pluto and moon
Comparison ofUS to Pluto andit’s moon
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Earth’s Moon
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Moon
View of Earth from the moon
•The moon is 225,000 miles from the Earth.•It has no water, air, or living things.•The moon‘s surface is covered by thousands of bowl-shaped craters.•Man stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969.
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Seeing Our Solar System
• Asteroids- very small worlds that circle the sun mainly in an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
• Comets- a frozen ball of ice a few miles wide, covered by a layer of black dust
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Seeing Our Solar System
• Meteoroids- small pieces of metal or rock from asteroids or comets
• Meteors- are meteoroids that have entered the Earth’s atmosphere
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Stars
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Galaxies
Milky Way- our solar system is located here
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Sources• Information
– Solarviews.com
– Our Solar System-by Seymour Simon
• Pictures
– Solarviews.com
– Bo.cnr.it/universo2000/images/solar_system.jpg