Kevin Camarillo & Stephanie

Zavala

Mercury

Mercury

Is the first planet from the sun

It's core is made up of iron

Outer layer is called the mantel

Has a very thin atmosphere

Does not have a moon

A day in Mercury is 176 Earth days

Has a very weak magnetic field

Venus

Venus

The second planet from the sun

The sixth largest plant

Has 583.92 days

Average orbital speed is 35.02 km/s

Named after a Roman Goddess of love and

beauty
Is the brightest object planet after the moon
Known as the morning start and the evening
star

Venus

Also known as the Earth's sister planet

Is covered with a opaque layer of highly
reflected cloud
Pressure is 90 atmosphere

Earth

Earth

The third about planet from the sun

The 5th largest planet

Only planet that is know to harbor life

Mostly covered in water

Has 4 different seasons

Philosophy: Earth was the center of the

universe
Earth's atmosphere is 77% nitrogen, and 21%
oxygen

Earth

Has one natural satellite

Has a magnetic field

Due to the vantage point of space we must go

out into space to view our planet

Mars

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun

The seventh largest planet

A smallest rocky body

It would be a harsh place to live in

Mars has a very thin atmosphere

Has two small satellites which orbit very close

to the surface

Mars

Mars has been visited by several probes

In the near future people will be able to walk on
mars

Jupiter

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The 5 planet from the sun

It is the strongest magnetic field of the planets

Has no solid surface

The core temperature is 25,000 k

The great red spot is about the same diameter

as earth
The atmosphere is mainly made up of hydrogen

Jupiter

Has a thin set of rings that is hardly anyone can

see
Jupiter sucks in comets, asteroid, and
meteorites
Jupiter's moon,Ganymede, is the biggest moon
in the solar system
The mass of Jupiter is 313 greater than mass of
earth

Saturn

Saturn

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Saturn is the 6 planet from the sun

Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar
system
The planet Saturn was name after the roman
god.
Saturn's rings may be particles of an old moon
orbiting the planet
A year on Saturn would be like thirty years on
earth

Saturn

Saturn's moon Titan was the first planet to

have sounds recorded (2005)
Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only moon in the
solar system to have atmosphere
Saturn is twice as far away from the sun as
Jupiter is.
It takes Saturn 29.4 years to orbit the sun
Earth could fit into Saturn 755 times

Uranus

Uranus
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Uranus is the 7 planet from the sun

Uranus has a ring system

Sometimes Uranus is mistaken as a star

Uranus is the is the coldest planet

Uranus has 27 known natural satellites

Uranus was the first planet to be discovered

with a telescope

Uranus

Sir William Herscher announced Uranus

discovery in 1781
Uranus synodic period is 30,799,095 days
Uranus pale blue color is caused by the
methane in its atmosphere
A space craft would have to travel
1,500,000,000 kilometers to reach Uranus

Neptune

Neptune
Neptune moon Tritonis slowly getting closer to
Neptune eventually it will be torn by its gravity

Neptunes winds are fast up to 2,00 kilometers

per hour
Triton orbits Neptune in the oppsite direction to
the planets rotation

Neptune has four faint rings

Neptune has been recoreded up to -230 c

Neptune

Neptune is the fourth largest planet in the solar

system
Neptune is made up of
Hydrogen,Helium,methane,and with traces of
ammonia and water
Neptune was discovered by Johann Galle in
1846

In roman mythology Neptune is the god of sea

The orbital speed of Neptune is 5.4 km/secs