*:･ﾟ✧Facts About Planets in Our Solar System*:･ﾟ✧ 1. Click the green flag. 2. Read the list. 3. Press space for the next side. 4. When you're done with everything, write in the comments what surprised you the most! ── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── ⋅ ⋅── Other facts about the planets: ✧Mercury: Has a solid surface that is covered with craters. Instead of an atmosphere, Mercury possesses a thin exosphere made up of atoms blasted off the surface by the solar wind and striking meteoroids. ✧Venus: It has a thick atmosphere full of the gas (carbon dioxide) and clouds made of sulfuric acid. The gas traps heat and keeps Venus toasty warm. In fact, it's so hot on Venus, metals like lead would be puddles of melted liquid. ✧Earth: The name Earth is at least 1,000 years old. All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. However, the name Earth is a Germanic word, which simply means “the ground.” ✧Mars: Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, that may be captured asteroids. They're potato-shaped because they have too little mass for gravity to make them spherical. ✧Jupiter: While planet Jupiter is an unlikely place for living things to take hold, the same is not true of some of its many moons. Europa is one of the likeliest places to find life elsewhere in our solar system. There is evidence of a vast ocean just beneath its icy crust, where life could possibly be supported. ✧Saturn: Saturn's rings are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids, or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn's powerful gravity. They are made of billions of small chunks of ice and rock coated with other materials such as dust. ✧Uranus: All of Uranus' inner moons appear to be roughly half water ice and half rock. The composition of the outer moons remains unknown, but they are likely captured asteroids. ✧Neptune: Sometimes Neptune is even farther from the Sun than dwarf planet Pluto. Pluto's highly eccentric, oval-shaped orbit brings it inside Neptune's orbit for a 20-year period every 248 Earth years. This switch, in which Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune, happened most recently from 1979 to 1999. ✧Pluto: If you lived on Pluto, you would see Charon (one of Pluto's moons) from only one side of the planet. Charon's orbit around Pluto takes about 6.5 Earth days. Pluto's day (that is, one complete rotation) takes exactly the same amount of time. That means that Charon always "hovers" over the same spot on Pluto's surface, and the same side of Charon always faces Pluto.
Images from Google. Information from the NASA Webpage.
