The Solar System
The Solar System is were we live, it is home to the sun, the moon and
Eight planets, the sun being the centre of our solar system holding it all together, with its gravity it makes us go around itself giving us seasons ( winter, summer, spring, and autumn).
Ice giants
These planets are big round balls made of ice. There are two of them in our solar system, Neptune and Uranus, the two planets that are furthest away from the sun. Uranus. the bigger one of the two planets. It was the first planet to be found with a telescope in 1781, thought to be a comet or a star, but two years later it was rediscovered as a planet. The weird thing about uranus is it has a weird rotation, which makes the poles experience very weird seasons, in winter there is 21 years (earth years) of night time, in summer there is 21 years of day time, and in the spring and fall there is 42 years of day and night. Which of course means that it takes 84 years to make a full rotation around the sun.
Neptune the planet that looks a lot like an ocean is the furthest planet from the sun, sitting at about 200 degree celsius, the south pole in winter reaches about minus 40 degrees celsius. It is also the windiest planet in the solar system with winds reaching up to 2,000 km/h, the fastest winds recorded on earth were about 372 km/h.
Dwarf Planets
There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. Ceres, Makemake, Eris , Haumea, and the most well known Pluto. Four of these small planets are located in the outer solar system and all of them take at least 250 Earth years to complete a full rotation around the Sun. Except for Cere’s which is located in between Mars and Jupiter.
Gas Giants
The two biggest planets in our solar system Jupiter and Saturn. Both of them are gas giants, but what does a gas giant look like?, they are a huge planet mostly consumed by gases such as hydrogen and helium, said to have a small rocky core somewhere past all of the gases. Jupiter, this is the biggest planet in our solar system, if you look, you will see cool patterns that are extremely cold clouds circling around the planet. It also has a huge red dot, you may think it's like a cloud or a crater, but it's a gigantic (two times the size of earth ) storm with winds that can reach up to 680 km/h. This storm has been going on for the last 150 years. Saturn the other gas giant and the second largest planet in our solar system. Saturn is a planet with an amazing planetary ring system, you may think its the only planet with a ring around it but Jupiter, neptune , and uranus also have them, they're just not as spectacular as Saturns.
Inner Planets
The two planets closest to the Sun, Mercury, and Venus. Mercury is a little bigger than our moon, and the smallest planet in our solar system. Closest to the Sun it has a temperature of about 430 degrees celsius, but yet it is not the hottest planet. Venus is the hottest planet because of its atmosphere; it allows heat to come in but doesn’t let it escape. A weird thing about Venus is that it spins very slowly and in the opposite direction then all of the other planets in our solar system.
The Sun
The sun is a small star in the centre of our solar system, holding our solar system together it is one of the main reasons we are alive, without the sun our solar system would not be here. If somehow it never existed and we were here today I would probably be talking about something else. Over the next 5-7 billion years the sun will slowly start to turn into a red giant most likely swallowing up Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth. Eventually going supernova or turning into a dwarf star and ending the existence of our solar system.
Terrestrial Planets
Terrestrial planet is a planet that is made out of rocks and metals. Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury are all terrestrial planets. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with living things however Mars also can be turned into a planet like Earth. Mars is a cold, red, desert, planet. We have taken many notes about this planet because someday we most likely will start living on this planet.
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Bibliography
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/