The document discusses the planets in our solar system. It explains that the ancient Greeks called planets "wandering stars" because they move across the night sky differently than fixed stars. It describes each planet, their composition, size, and notable features like Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Saturn's rings. Key facts provided include Mercury being the smallest planet with extreme temperature changes, Venus having a thick, hot atmosphere, and Mars being the closest planet to Earth where we've sent landers.
The document discusses the planets in our solar system. It explains that the ancient Greeks called planets "wandering stars" because they move across the night sky differently than fixed stars. It describes each planet, their composition, size, and notable features like Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Saturn's rings. Key facts provided include Mercury being the smallest planet with extreme temperature changes, Venus having a thick, hot atmosphere, and Mars being the closest planet to Earth where we've sent landers.
The document discusses the planets in our solar system. It explains that the ancient Greeks called planets "wandering stars" because they move across the night sky differently than fixed stars. It describes each planet, their composition, size, and notable features like Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Saturn's rings. Key facts provided include Mercury being the smallest planet with extreme temperature changes, Venus having a thick, hot atmosphere, and Mars being the closest planet to Earth where we've sent landers.
The document discusses the planets in our solar system. It explains that the ancient Greeks called planets "wandering stars" because they move across the night sky differently than fixed stars. It describes each planet, their composition, size, and notable features like Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Saturn's rings. Key facts provided include Mercury being the smallest planet with extreme temperature changes, Venus having a thick, hot atmosphere, and Mars being the closest planet to Earth where we've sent landers.
night to night The ancient Greeks named them wandering stars which are actually planets All the planets 1 worlds move around the sun like a race track
The closer to the sun the
quicker the planet moves around 1 orbits
The outer planets move slower
Inner Mercury Venus Earth Mars
Cutter Jupiter Saturn Neptune Uranus
400 years ago Galileo discovered that the wandering stars were actually planets 1worlds When you look through original telescopes stars were still blury because they are too far away
Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn
are the only planets that can be seen in the dim sky
et a
Mercury Resembles a moon with craters
smallest planet no atmosphere 700 Day E 300 F nights MOST EXTREME Temp changes
Venus lander sent to Venus but melts after
2 hrs 900 F i thick clouds make planet very hot Always cloudy can't see sun close in size to Earth has an atmosphere Mars red planet from all the rust 4th planet sky is yellow closest to Earth we've sent a lander to this planet
Jupiter Brownish orange bands very colorful
Clouds are multi colored Great Red spot been there more than 200 yrs spot may be a hurricane Storm is 2 5 the size of Earth planet made of Gas no atmosphere
Saturn rings made of ice dust rings
orbit thousands of miles per hour no surface we've sent a lander on one of its moons
Uranus Least known blue made of gas
rotates around itself on its side 7 all other slanets point up t down maybe hit
Neptune Least known blue made of
gas takes 10 years to get there g deep blue there's a dark spot hurricane farthest Planet