1. Lets talk about our planets!

2.  Sun  Mercury  Venus  Mars  Asteroid belt  Jupiter  Saturn  Uranus  Neptune  Pluto

3. Made of mainly Hydrogen It takes 8 minutes for the sun’s light to reach Earth! In the center of our solar systems gravity Emits heat through a process called nuclear fission

4. Closest planet to the sun Named after the swift Roman god Smallest planet

5. 2 nd planet from the sun Easiest planet to see from Earth Same size from Earth Has clouds of sulfuric acid

6. Mars is red because of the iron in the soil Why is this planet red? 4 th planet from the sun Has the tallest volcano in the solar system “Olympus Mons”

7. Located between the two planets Mars and Jupiter

8. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system It is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system It has the great red spot, which is Jupiter has 63 moons Jupiter is the 5 th planet from the sun

9. Saturn is the 2 nd largest planet Saturn is the 6th from the sun It has huge rings that are made of rock, ice, and dust

10. 7 th planet from the sun Named after the Greek/Roman god of the Sea Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system

11. 8 th and furthest planet from the sun The light from the sun takes more than 5 hours to get to Uranus It has a thin set of vertical rings

12. Pluto is a dwarf planet In 2006 the International Astronomical Union took Pluto’s planet status away A dwarf planet still orbits the sun like the other planet

13. Halley’s Comet We can see this comet every 75-76 years! That is once per life time!