What's so interesting about space?

By Jessica MatonPrimary 6

Cool and Random facts!

Did you know that we are moving at the rate of 530km a second? WOW!

Any liquid floating in space will form itself to make a sphere. The reason it does this because of its surface tension!

You can remember this little rhyme, “My (Mercury), very (Venus), educated (Earth), mother (Mars), just (Jupiter), served (Saturn), us (Uranus), nine (Neptune), pizzas (Pluto).”

Sun The Romans used to call

the sun “Sol”. In ancient Greece, the sun was called Helios.

Without the sun’s light we would not be able to see anything.

The sun shrinks five feet every hour!

Did you know that the sun evaporates about a trillion tons of water every day.

Mercury The max temperature on

Mercury is 465 degrees Celsius.

The min temperature on Mercury is –184 degrees Celsius.

If you went to Mercury then it would change your weight. Example: If you weighed 70 pounds on Earth then you would weigh 27 pounds on Mercury.

Venus Venus is one of the

two planets have not got moons orbiting it.

Venus is the only planet in the solar system that spins clockwise.

There are more volcanoes on Venus than there is on any other planet.

Earth is the only planet that humans can live on because of the low oxygen on other planets.

The Earth is not a perfect sphere it is called a oblate spheroid.

Earth

Mars The biggest volcano in

the solar system is on Mars, it is called the Olympus Mons.

Out of all the planets in the solar system, Mars is the one that people believe is most likely to contain life.

In 1938 a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells caused a panic In America.

Jupiter Jupiter is the biggest

planet in the solar system.

Jupiter is a mixture of lots of different colours as you can see by the picture.

Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, is the biggest moon in the solar system.

Saturn Saturn is the second

largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter.

Saturn is so big that the earth could fit into it 755 times.

1 year on Saturn would take almost 30 years on Earth.

Neptune Neptune has four

rings that you can hardly see.

The strongest winds in the solar system are recorded on Neptune, they can reach up to 2,000 kilometres per hour.

Quiz!!Q1. What is the maximum temperature on

Mercury?A. 465 degrees Celsius.Q2. Do all the planets in the solar system spin anti

– clockwise?A. No, Venus spins clockwise.Q3. Is the Earth a perfect sphere?A. No, the Earth is an oblate spheroid?Q4. Who made a radio broadcast on The War of the

Worlds in 1938?A. H.G. Wells.

Well what do I think about

space?

Thank you very much for listening to my space presentation!