Our Solar System!
Earth
Saturn
Distance From Sun: 149,600,000 km
Length of a Year: 365 Earth days and 6 hours
Length of a Day: 24 hours
Size: 6,371 km Radius
Distance From Sun: 1,433,000,000 km
Length of a Year: 29.7 Earth years
Length of a Day: 10 hours, 39 minutes
Size: 58,232 km Radius
Facts:
Facts:
ÌÌ It is the only planet that has liquid water on its surface.
ÌÌ Saturn is most well-known for its rings. However, it is not the
only planet with rings. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings.
ÌÌ It is the only planet in the Solar System that has life.
Mars
Distance From Sun: 227,900,000 km
Length of a Year: 687 Earth days
Length of a Day: 1 Earth day and 40minutes!
Size: 3,390 km Radius
Facts:
ÌÌ Mars has seasons like Earth too. These seasons are much
longer than Earth seasons because Mars is so much further from
the Sun. The average high during a Martian summer day is -5°C
ÌÌ The dust storms on Mars are larger than on any other planet in
the Solar System. Some dust storms on Mars can blanket almost
the entire planet in just a few days
Jupiter
Distance From Sun: 778,500,000 km
Length of a Year: 12 Earth Years!
Length of a Day: 9 hours, 56 minutes
Size: 69,911 km Radius
Facts:
ÌÌ Jupiter is the giant of the Solar System, with a mass more than
300 times the mass of the Earth and is called after the ancient
Roman sky-god, Jupiter, known to the Greeks as Zeus.
ÌÌ Jupiter is made of hydrogen, helium, methane and ammonia.
The cloudy sphere has bright belts on it which change their shape.
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ÌÌ Saturn has 53 official moons and 9 unofficial moons. The most
well-known of Saturn’s moons is probably Titan.
Uranus
Distance From Sun: 2,877,000,000 km
Length of a Year: 84.3 Earth years
Length of a Day: 17 hours, 14 minutes
Size: 25,362 km Radius
Facts:
ÌÌ Unlike all the other planets and most of the moons in our Solar
System, Uranus spins on its side.
ÌÌ Scientists believe that on the surface of Uranus there may be a
huge ocean, and it is thought that this ocean may be extremely hot
– maybe even as hot as 2760°C!
Neptune
Distance From Sun: 4,503,000,000 km
Length of a Year: 165 Earth years
Length of a Day: 16 hours, 6 minutes
Size: 24,622 km Radius
Facts:
ÌÌ Neptune is a very windy place. No other planet in the Solar
System has winds that are as strong as Neptune’s . The winds there
can blow up to 1,240 miles per hour, that is three times as fast as
Earth’s Hurricanes!
ÌÌ Neptune is so far away that it took the space probe Voyager 2,
12 years to reach it.
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