STARDOME PRESENTS THE SOLAR SYSTEM Images by courtesy of.
50
STARDOME PRESENTS THE SOLAR SYSTEM Images by courtesy of
-
Upload
julie-henderson -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
0
Transcript of STARDOME PRESENTS THE SOLAR SYSTEM Images by courtesy of.
STARDOME PRESENTS
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Images by courtesy of
The Earth – our home in space
The Universe of Galaxies
Each galaxy is a
city of stars
Our galaxy – the Milky Way
You are here
Stars in the Milky Way
500 light years
500 light years = 500 x 9 000 000 000 000 kilometres
500 light years = 4 500 000 000 000 000 kilometres!
The Sun – our local star
A sunspot
An area of cooler gas sinking into the
sun
4 small rock planets 4 giant gas planets
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars Jupiter Saturn
UranusNeptune
Pluto
Orbits of the inner planets
Orbits of the Outer Planets
MercuryDaytime
420 degrees
Night
Minus 180 degrees
Meteorite craters
No air No water
No life
Venus
Shrouded in clouds
Venus
Uncovered by radar
Surface of Venus
Suffocating carbon dioxide
Temperature 500 C
Acid clouds
Crushing atmosphere
Earth
Warm
Air
Water
Life
Seasons on Earth
Summer Winter
Long days
Short Nights
Short days
Long nights
Sun
Sunset over
Europe
The Moon
Phases of the Moon
Sunlight
Just one small step…..
Volcanoes
Meteorite craters
Valleys
MARS
MARS, THE RED PLANET
The face on Mars?
Surface of Mars
Thin carbon dioxide atmosphere
Temperature minus 20 degrees C
Water frozen into soil
Water on Mars
Mars from orbit
Showing river channels made by
water long ago
Surface of Mars from the Spirit lander
Mars Express:
Volcanic crater 1 km wide
A human landing on Mars – maybe by 2020?
Asteroids
Meteorite Crater, Arizona
Deep Impact
Jupiter – gas giant
60 moons
The 4 great moons of Jupiter
Io
A world of volcanoes
Europa
Ice covered
Water beneath the ice?
Ganymede
Ice covered, largest moon in the Solar
System
CallistoIce surface,Covered in
craters
Saturn, Lord of the Rings
30 MoonsTitan
TITAN
The only moon known to have an
atmosphere.
15 January 2005: Huygens spacecraft
lands on Titan
URANUS: 21 moons
Uranus
A planet knocked on its side
NEPTUNE: 11 Moons
Sedna
Planet 10 ?
Diameter: 1600 km
Distance from Sun:
13 billion km
Not a planet: one of many icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto
PLUTOCharon
COMET
A space iceberg
The Oort Cloud of comets
Gas tail
Dust tail
COMET HALE-BOPP
1997
Meteor – shooting star
12 August 13 December
The Solar System
Nine wonderful worlds
SOLAR SYSTEM
Is a
STARDOME PRODUCTION
By
DENNIS ASHTON, FRAS
Images from
