The Solar System What are planets? Planets are kinda like asteroid around the sun. There are nine planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth ( Our planet ), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Terrestrial Planets The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like the Earth's. The planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars have significant atmospheres
Solar System Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earth’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earth’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago, perhaps when a nearby
The Solar System is home to many materials including (Planets, Moons, Stars, Galaxies, Nebula, The Universe, a Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, planetesimals, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Comets, Asteroid, a Meteor) including (Meteoroid and Meteorite). Planets: A planet is mass that is or almost round, that orbits around the sun. It is not a satellite or a moon that orbits another object, it’s the object that gets orbited.There are eight planets that orbit the sun. These planets have formed
Our sun is the central pivot point to which or entire planet and solar system is built around. With out it all life on our planet would cease to exist. Within this paper we will explore how our Sun and solar system formed and came to resemble what we see today. The Big Bang, the alpha of existence for the building blocks of stars, happened approximately fourteen billion years ago. The elements produced by the big bang consisted of hydrogen and helium with trace amounts of lithium. Hydrogen and
Our solar system has eight planets, their moons and satellites, and they are all orbiting the Sun. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto used to be the ninth planet but IAU changed the definition of planet and Pluto did not meet the standards so it is now a Dwarf planet. Mercury is the first planet closest to the Sun. It is the smallest planet in the solar system. Mercury rotates three times in two of its years. One of Mercury's days is
Essentially, there are two basic categories of spacecraft, inter-solar system spacecraft and extra-solar system spacecraft. The difference between the two spacecraft categories is inter-solar system spacecraft travel within our solar system only, and extra-solar system spacecraft travel between our solar system and other stars. This paper does not discuss extra-solar system spacecraft because the technology to travel from our Sun to other stars in our galaxy and back again has not even reached the
Tyler John Moore Mr. Cummins Science 06 March 2017 Our Solar System Our Solar System is a wonderful place, with its profuse planets big and small, giant icy wastelands and tiny volcanic planets. It is the only place known to have a planet to have a planet that supports life. The Sun, two asteroid belts, eight planets, and five dwarf planets make this place truly awesome. The Creation Scientists agree that the solar system was created when there was a tumult in a cloud of dust and gas, possibly
The moons that exist in our solar system have very diverse properties and characteristics. It can be very easy to compare and contrast them with one another; however, it becomes difficult to categorize them in a way that is useful and precise for discussing the satellites in our solar system. By studying the geological activity of planets and their moons we can better understand the evolution of the solar system. It offers insight as to what bodies in the solar system have been through and are still
The solar system consists of a central body, the Sun, our star. Orbiting it, are eight major planets and their satellites. There are many other small planets, asteroids and comets. Large planets are arranged in order of distance from the Sun as follows: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Pic.1). The furthermost two planets can only be seen from Earth through a telescope. All others can be seen as more or less bright circles of light and were known to people since ancient
Within our Solar System lies an abundance of planets, each with their own unique characteristics, including the Terrestrial planets of Venus, Earth, and Mars who vary in many aspects but, most importantly, their atmosphere. Firstly, Venus’s atmosphere is heavily laden with carbon dioxide (CO2), which makes up 96 percent of its atmosphere, 3.5 percent is made of nitrogen, and the remaining 0.5 percent is a combination of water vapor, sulfuric acid (which produce Venus’s thick, stable clouds), hydrochloric
Planets and Solar System "A planet is a celestial body that revolves around a central star and does not shine by its own light " (Grolier, 1992). The only planetary system that is known to man is our solar system. It is made up of nine planets which range in size and make-up. The nine major planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant
it contains life on every part of the planet. A long time ago though there was no life on Earth, approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Emmanuel Kant was the philosopher that created the most widely held theory of the origin of the Earth, and the Solar System. The same theory was later advanced by the French Mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. Both of them had come up with the theory that the Sun and planets were condensed from a Nebula, which since then has been supported from data that more powerful
The Kuiper Belt is an icy-bodied disc shapes area of the Solar System. Kuiper Belt has a circular shape, to be exact, it is a curved plane. It is over 4.5 to 7.4 billion kilometers from Sun. This is roughly 30 to 50 times the distance of Earth from Sun. The Kuiper Belt has been said to resemble the Asteroid Belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter. The difference between the Kuiper Belt and the Asteroid Belt is that the bodies are icier due to their distance from the Sun. The Kuiper Belt objects includes
There are eight planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; there is also a dwarf planet Pluto. Mercury- Means the Greek god Hermes, he was the messenger for all the other gods. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, as it is so close to the sun it is near earth and can be visible to observers on earth either late in the evening or early in the morning. Mercury has no moons, it is the smallest planet in the solar system, and it orbits the sun once
If human kind is to conquer the solar system and reach for the stars, we must first start closer to home. In such a situation, creating a colony on our nearest partner celestial body, the Moon, would create an ideal opportunity to learn and explore technical capabilities and human characteristics in space. On board, there would be plenty of science to do, plenty of fun to be had, and plenty of knowledge to learn. However, a lunar base of this kind of complexity can not just be slapped together; it
geologists insights on the makeup of the early solar system. Geologists are driven by understanding how the Earth came to be what it is today. Chondrites formed at the time o Introduction Chondrites are the most primitive rocks in the solar system. Chondrites are stony (non-metallic) meteorites that have not been modified due to melting or differentiation of the parent body. Chondrites are formed when dust and small grains that originated from the early solar system accreted to form asteroids. Chondrites
the solar system. Response: Step 1: Gravitational Collapse An interstellar cloud of gas that is known as the solar nebula collapsed under its own gravity. The collapse may have been caused by a cataclysmic event. After that, gravity allowed the collapse to continue. This lead to the heating, spinning and flattening of the solar nebula. The Sun formed in the center of the collapsing solar nebula where the temperatures and densities were at their highest. The spinning ensured that the solar nebula
Our solar system is a collection, which is the composition of sun, planets, dwarf planets, comets and asteroids. These are held due to the sun’s gravity. There were several theories how our solar system was made. When science wasn’t developed, people used their imagination to solve the questions on solar system and beyond! Some of them didn’t even think of the existence of the solar system. Maybe it’s more accurate to say they didn’t ‘care’ much because solving the questions about solar system and
"Our solar system consists of one star and a few debris," pronounced Carl Sagan. There endures an abundance of differences and similarities between the Inner and Outer planets. Our solar system consists of the Sun in the middle, followed by planets rotating it. The planets which orbit the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Inner planets are completely different from Outer planets and the Outer planets are completely different from Inner planets, however
Mercury: 1. Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. Knowing this characteristic makes it easy to identify Mercury on charts and diagrams, since it will always be the smallest planet. 2. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Knowing this characteristic makes it easy to identify Mercury since it will always be the planet right next to the Sun on diagrams and charts. Venus: 1. Venus is nicknames Earth’s sister planet, since they are similar in size. Knowing this fact makes identifying