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THE PLANETS!. 4 th Period SI. Mercury: The Closest Planet. Katie Shen. Mercury Information. Mercury is one of the terrestrial planets, which means that it has a rocky surface. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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4th Period SI
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Mercury: The Closest Planet
Katie Shen
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Mercury Information• Mercury is one of the terrestrial planets, which means
that it has a rocky surface. • It is 0.39 AU or 58 million kilometers from the Sun. It is
the closest planet to the Sun, so the planet experiences extreme temperature throughout its day.
• It is hard to view from Earth, because its solar radiation damages telescope optics.
• It is not a likely place to find life because it has almost no atmosphere and no water.
• Mercury contains far more metals than the other planet in this solar system. It also has a magnetic field.
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Mercury Picture
Mercury compared to Earth.
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Venus, Our Sister!!
By: Kanithra Sekaran
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Sister
• Venus is the second brightest object in Earth’s night sky.
• Earth’s size is closest to Venus’s.• Venus has mountains and plains just
like Earth!• It has a atmosphere as does Earth.
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General Information
• It can only be seen near sunset or sunrise, and it is called either a morning star or a evening star.
• Thick layers of carbon dioxide compromise Venus's atmosphere.
• The atmosphere is very hot containing sulfuric acid.• The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus is
90 times the pressure of Earth’s surface atmospheric pressure.
• It spins in the opposite direction from other planets and the sun.
• It is 0.7 Astronomical Unit from the sun.• It takes 224 days for Venus to orbit the sun.
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Venus and the Moon
Venus is the second brightest object in Earth’s night sky.
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Mars
Shivram Viswanathan
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• 4th planet from sun• 1.5 AU from sun• Thin atmosphere
– Mostly CO2
• Volcanoes, impact craters and dust storms• Ice caps show evidence of solid and (in past) liquid water.• 1.9 Earth years – revolution• 24.7 Earth hours – rotation• Two moons – Phobos; Deimos
Facts
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Mars’s polar ice caps show a slight possibly for the planet to support life.
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The 5th Planet: Jupiter
Made by Tyler Eston
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•Jupiter is the 5th and largest planet in our solar system.•It’s a gas giant, with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth of the Sun’s mass.•Distance from the Sun:
–Approximately 5AU.–On average, about 465 million miles.
Interesting Facts:
• As of now, Jupiter has 63 satellites.
• A large hurricane on Jupiter called the Great Red Spot is twice the diameter of Earth.
• From Earth, it’s the third brightest object in the night sky (after the Moon and Venus).
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A relative size comparison of the first four discovered moons: Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Io.
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The Planet of Gas
Saturn and its great rings
By: Mark Rodkey
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The Info. Channel
• Saturn is a whopping 943.76 million miles from the Sun.
• Saturn is a big gas planet made mostly of hydrogen and helium.
• Saturn has 30 named moons. 6 major, 24 minor. We have 1 major moon.
• Saturn’s 2 largest moons are Rhea and Titan.• Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and is the
second largest.
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And Saturn oh wait wrong Saturn.
Here’s the Planet Saturn
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The Planet Uranus
By: Brian Sang
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Uranus
• Uranus is a bluish gas giant planet. It is the 7th planet in the solar system. Uranus has 11 rings and 27 known moons. Its atmosphere is composed of hydrogen, helium, and methane.
• The methane gives the planet its blue color.• Uranus is 19 AU from the sun, or 1 billion, 780
miles from the sun.• Uranus’ axis has a 97.86 degree tilt. Therefore
Uranus is also known as ‘the tilted planet’.• A day on Uranus is around 17 hours.
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The methane gas on Uranus gives it its bluish color.
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Neptune- One of the many Unique planets of the solar
system
By: Rushil Shah
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Neptune
• Distance from the sun is 30 AU• Composed of thick gaseous atmospheres
composed of hydrogen, helium, and methane which gives the planet its unique bluish color
• Rotates 16 hrs per day • This 8th planet from the sun has 3 rings • One of Neptune’s irregular moons Triton
orbits Neptune in a opposite direction as all other moons
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The bluish planet Neptune, compared to our Earth.