SOLAR SYSTEM By: Bridgette Wilson Barnes

Solar System

Sun

• The sun is a star

• Ball of hot burning gasses

• Makes up 99.8% of the entire mass of the solar system

• Made up of:

• 75% Hydrogen

• 25% helium

• Temperature at the core is 15 million degrees Celsius

Sun

Planets

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,

Neptune

• Mnemonic: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us

Noodles

Mercury

• Closest Planet to the sun

• Smallest planet in the solar system

• Daytime temperatures can reach 450 degrees Celsius

and then drop to -170 degrees Celsius at night.

Mercury

Venus

• 108 Million Km (67 million miles) from Sun

• The hottest planet in our solar system.

• Has clouds of toxic gas.

• Temperatures of 460 degrees Celsius.

Venus

Earth

• 150 million Km (93 million miles)

• Made up of:

• 78% Nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other

• 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in Oceans

• Rocky planet/terrestrial planet

Earth

Mars

• 228 million Km (142 million miles) from sun

• Rocky Planet/Terrestrial Planet

• Altered Surface:

• Volcanoes

• Impacts

• Crustal movements

• Atmospheric effects (ex. Dust storms)

• Atmosphere made up of mostly Carbon dioxide, nitrogen,

argon

• Known as the Red Planet

Mars

Jupiter

• 778 million Km (484 million miles) from sun

• Atmosphere:

• Made up of Hydrogen and Helium

• A gas planet

• Has the most mass but low density

• Separated by asteroid belt

• Jupiter has a great red spot that is a gigantic storm(bigger

than earth) that has been raging for hundreds of years.

Jupiter

Saturn

• 1.4 billion Km (886 million miles) from sun

• Atmosphere:

• Made up of :

• Hydrogen and Helium

• Gas-giant planet

• Has 7 rings

Saturn

Uranus

• Called a gas giant or Ice giant

• Very low density

• Made up largely of gas

• A decent percent of those gasses are trapped as ice.

• Gets its blue color from Methane gas.

Uranus

Neptune

• Also an ice giant

• Has many of the same frozen gasses as Uranus

• Gets its bluish color from Methane gas

Neptun

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References

• Coffey, Jerry. "Order Of the Planets From The

Sun." Universe Today. N.p., 28 Aug. 2010. Web. 28 Apr.

2015. <www.universetoday.com>.

• Nasa’s photogallery

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery