the solar system. volume i: the sun, mars and saturn by kavitha and rowena
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The Solar System.Volume I:
The Sun, Mars and Saturn
By Kavitha and Rowena
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Introduction.
The solar system is an amazing place. Although we have only found life on earth people have always dreamed of extra-terrestrial activity. The aliens in doctor who for example, are imaginary but that doesn’t mean there’s no life out there…
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The Sun.
• The Sun is the biggest star in our solar system.
• The Sun was created in a vast cloud of gas and dust around 5 billion years ago.
• In approximately 5 billion years the sun will die, however it will take about 1 billion years to turn into a white dwarf.
• The planets in our solar system all orbit the sun
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This is an exploding white dwarf!
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Mars
• One Mars year is 686.98 earth days long.
• One mars day, one rotation, is 24 hours and 37minutes long.
• Mars is 142 million miles from the sun!
• It has the largest mountain in the solar system, twice the height of Mount Everest!
• It also has the largest canyon, which is 2600 miles long!
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This is Mars
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Saturn
• One of Saturn’s years is 10,759.2 days long and one day is ten hours and fifteen minutes long!
• Saturn is the second largest planet after Jupiter. It is 888 million miles from the sun.
• Its rings are made out of rocks and ice in its orbit.
• Its core is 1,700 degrees Celsius!
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This is Saturn
And its rings
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Now here are some pictures of amazing things that happen in space…
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Thanks for watching!