2. What Is The Solar System?
The solar system is everything that
orbits around the sun. Including the
planets, comets, and asteroids.
Split into Inner Planets:
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
And Outer Planets:
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and
“Pluto”
3. The Sun
Center of our
Universe
Largest object in
our Solar System
Every planet orbits
the Sun
4. Mercury
Closest planet to
sun
Covered with
wrinkles and craters
1 day on mercury =
58-1/2 earth days
Mercury has no
moon
36 million miles from
5. Venus
2nd closest to sun
Many volcanoes and
mountains
Actually warmer than
mercury
Very, very dry, almost no
water
No moons
67 million miles from the
sun
6. Earth
3rd planet from the
sun
30% covered by
land
70% covered by
water
Earth has one moon
93 million miles from
the sun
7. Mars
4th planet from sun
“Red Planet”
2 moons
Contains the solar
systems largest
volcano
142 million miles
from the sun
8. Jupiter
5th planet from the sun
Largest planet in the
solar system
Very stormy planet
No solid surface, all gas
50 official moons, 12
unofficial moons
483 million miles from
sun
9. Saturn
6th planet from sun
7 rings
Rings made up of
ice, dust, and rocks
53 official moons, 9
unofficial moons
888 million miles from
sun
10. Uranus
7th planet from sun
Only planet that spins
on its side
Surface believed to be
a huge ocean that is
5000 degrees
Fahrenheit
Also has rings
surrounding it
27 moons
1784 million miles
11. Neptune
8th planet from sun
Blue planet with white
clouds
Very windy
13 moons
2794 million miles
from sun
12. Pluto
9th “planet” from sun
Because it is so small
in 2006 it was
changed from planet
to dwarf planet, so it is
not considered part of
our solar system
anymore
3 moons
3647 million miles
14. Extra information about the
Solar System Comet
Comets –mixture of ices (both
water and frozen gases) and
dust
Asteroid Belt– seperates the Asteroid belt
two parts of the solar system.
Made up of small rock
formations
15. Special Thanks To:
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/
http://www.guangxiedu.net/157/origin-of-solar-system.html
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/sun
-gallery/
http://www.realmagick.com/planet-mercury
http://www.solarspace.co.uk/Venus/venus.php
http://cae2k.com/alton-brown-photos-0/planet-earth-from-
space.html
http://twittface.net/beautiful-universe/mars/