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Our Sun and the Planets
A multimedia Tour
How Do We See the Stars and Planets?
Sometimes we use telescopes on the ground…
and sometimes we look from space.
Where did the Sun and the Planets Come From?
The Sun is a hot ball of gas!
How Big is the Solar System?
• If the Sun were a basketball• Mercury would be the size of a period (.)
and would be 30 feet away!• Earth would be the size of a pin head 90
feet away• Pluto would be a grain of sand 0.7 miles
away• The next closest star would be in Alaska!!!
Mercury is very close to the Sun
Venus is covered with clouds, and it has lots of volcanoes
It is very hot on the surface
Earth: “There’s no place like home.”
Our Moon is Big!
and People Have Walked on It!
Mars: “Here we come!”
Mars: “Here we come!”
Mars: “Here we come!”
Mars: “Here we come!”
Mars: “Here we come!”
Which Planet is the Biggest?
Jupiter
Jupiter Has Many Strange Moons
And the Strangest is Io
It is covered with Volcanoes
Then Comes Saturn, its Rings, and Moons
Followed by Uranus
And Neptune
And Finally Pluto(Isn’t that a dog’s name?!?)
Pluto and its moon are smaller than the United States of America
The Solar System also has a lot of space junk in it, like
asteroids and comets
The Solar System is a rocking place!