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In this video we’re going to make a scratch-off solar system model.
Our solar system is made up of the Sun, Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids.
There are 8 planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Our Solar System is located in the Milky Way Galaxie,
which is one of many galaxies in the Universe.
There are billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
One of those stars is our Sun.
The Sun is a star at the center of our Solar System.
The Sun is a raging ball of burning gas 4
and a half billion years old.
The sun is the largest object in our solar
system.
The Sun’s gravity keeps the planets in orbit around it.
MERCURY
The first planet Mercury is the smallest of
the solar system and it the closest of the
sun.
It’s a hard rocky ball of iron with no moon.
Mercury's surface is covered with craters
caused by meteoroids and comets impacts.
It takes Mercury 88 Earth days to orbit around the Sun.
VENUS
The second planet is Venus.
It’s the brightest and the hottest of the
solar system.
Venus is only a little smaller than Earth
but it spins the other way and much more slowly than the Earth.
Venus has no moon and more volcanoes than any other planet in the Solar System.
It takes Venus 225 Earth days to make a complete orbit around the sun
EARTH
The third planet is the Earth.
Earth, our home planet, is the only planet
in our solar system known to have life.
The Sun provides us with energy, which sustains life on our planet.
The Earth has one Moon, and the Earth is covered
with oceans and land.
The land is divided in 7 CONTINENTS: South
America, North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
Earth makes a complete orbit around the sun
in about 365 days
MARS
The forth planet is Mars, and it’s a rocky red planet.
It’s dry and cold and it has 2 moons named
Phobos and Deimos.
Iron Oxide is giving it its rust color.
It has the highest mountains, and the deepest valleys,
and the largest volcano in the solar
system called Olympus Mons.
Mars makes a complete orbit around the sun
in 687 Earth days.
ASTEROID BELT
What is an Asteroid?
Asteroids are rocky object in space that orbit
our sun, but are too small to be called planets.
There are millions of asteroids that orbit
the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
These rocks are left over from the early formation
of our solar system about 4 and a half billion years ago.
JUPITER
The fifth planet is Jupiter.
Jupiter is a gas giant and the biggest planet
of the solar system.Jupiter is the fastest
spinning planet in our Solar System rotating
on itself once every 10 hours, which means
that Jupiter has the shortest days of all
the planets in the Solar System.
It has a great red spot larger than the Earth
created by a storm that has been raging for hundreds of years.
Jupiter has the largest number of moons (69
known moons) and also has the biggest moon
in our solar system called Ganymede.
The planet Jupiter has a system of rings known
as the Jovian ring system that consist mainly of dust.
Jupiter makes a complete orbit around the
sun in about 12 Earth years.
SATURN
The sixth planet Saturn is another gas giant
and the second largest planet of our solar
system.
Saturn has the most spectacular ring system
of all our solar system's planets.
Its rings are made of rocks and ice.
Saturn has 62 known moons.
Its biggest moon called Titan is the second
largest moon of the solar system.
It takes Saturn 29 Earth years to make a complete
orbit around the sun.
URANUS
The seventh planet is Uranus.
It’s an icy gas giant . Uranus reaches the
coldest temperatures of any planet in the Solar System.
Methane gas is giving Uranus its turquoise color.
Uranus has faint rings made of dust and 27
known moons named after characters from the
works of English poets William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
Unlike any of the other planets, Uranus rotates on its side, which means it spins horizontally.
Uranus makes a complete orbit around the sun
in about 84 Earth years.
NEPTUNE
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun.
It’s also an icy gas giant.
Neptune is a dark, cold and very windy planet.
It has the strongest winds in the solar system.
The color of Neptune is a bright azure blue.
Neptune has 6 known rings and 14 known moons
named after various sea gods and nymphs from Greek mythology.
The largest moon is called Triton.
Neptune takes almost 165 Earth years to orbit
our sun.
PLUTO
What Is Pluto?
Pluto is called a dwarf planet.
Pluto used to be considered the ninth planet
from the Sun; but, in 2006 a group of important
astronomers that name objects in space decided
that Pluto was not really a planet because
of its size and location in space.
The 5 recognized dwarf planets in our Solar
system are:
Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.
Scientists believe there may be
dozens and dozens of dwarf planets awaiting to be discovered.
Pluto, the most famous Dwarf Planet, is
smaller than Earth's moon and is located in
an area of space called the Kuiper Belt.
Pluto is very, very cold and It has five moons.
Its largest moon is named Charon.
Pluto takes 248 Earth years to go around the
sun.
