1. Going To Space
By Jesus and Matt

2. What is a Solar System?
It is a group of planets that orbit around the sun
Began 5 billion years ago

3. Inner Planets
Small, ball shaped
Solid and rocky
Have craters

4. The Sun Burning ball of gas Nearest star to earth
It is 27,000,000 degrees F.
It is a medium sized star.
Over 100 Earths can go across the sun
The Sun

5. Mercury Nearest to the sun One day is as long as a year
Smallest planet
No atmosphere creates lots of craters
750 degrees during the day
-300 degrees at night
Hot enough to melt metal

6. Venus Hottest planet because of thick carbon dioxide atmosphere
It is 900 degrees F
Surrounded by layer of clouds of sulfuric acid
Volcanoes never run out of lava
Very high winds

7. Earth Only planet with liquid water and oxygen to support life
Protective blanket to air called atmosphere keeps harmful sunrays from hurting humans
Earth

8. Mars Covered in red rocks made of iron oxide
Polar ice caps-possibly underground water
May have had water

9. Asteroid Belt
Billions of fragments of rocks left over from the creation of the solar system
Some pieces are dislodged and enter Earth’s atmosphere where they burn up are called meteorites or shooting star

10. Outer Planets They all have rings They are all gas planets
Farthest from the sun
Gas giants

11. Jupiter Biggest planet Diameter is 88,846 miles
Has a spot called the Great Red Spot and is twice the size as Earth

12. Saturn Second largest planet Covered in thick clouds
Rings are the brightest
Rings made of ice , dust , and rocks

13. Uranus Third largest planet It is only one third the size of Jupiter
Has 20 moons only five are large enough to be seen through a telescope

14. Neptune Neptune is the fourth largest planet in the solar system
Has a spot, called The Great Dark Spot the same size as Jupiter’s spot
It is very cold

15. Pluto Pluto is made of rock with a coating of ice
A thin outer layer contains frozen methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide
It is now a dwarf planet because of small size and goes through Neptune’s orbit and its lopsided

16. Going Back To Earth