2. Our Sun and the Planets A multimedia Tour

3. How Do We See the Stars and Planets? Sometimes we use telescopes on the ground…

4. and sometimes we look from space.

5. Where did the Sun and the Planets Come From?

6. The Sun is a hot ball of gas!

7. How Big is the Solar System? If the Sun were a basketball Mercury would be the size of a period (.) and would be 30 feet away! Earth would be the size of a pin head 90 feet away Pluto would be a grain of sand 0.7 miles away The next closest star would be in Alaska!!!

8. Mercury is very close to the Sun

9. Venus is covered with clouds, and it has lots of volcanoes It is very hot on the surface

10. Earth: “There’s no place like home.”

11. Our Moon is Big!

12. and People Have Walked on It!

13. Mars: “Here we come!”

18. Which Planet is the Biggest? Jupiter

19. Jupiter Has Many Strange Moons

20. And the Strangest is Io It is covered with Volcanoes

21. Then Comes Saturn, its Rings, and Moons

22. Followed by Uranus And Neptune

23. And Finally Pluto (Isn’t that a dog’s name?!?) Pluto and its moon are smaller than the United States of America

24. The Solar System also has a lot of space junk in it, like asteroidsand comets

25. The Solar System is a rocking place!