1.
MERCURY
Mercury—the smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun—is
only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. Its surface is covered in tens of thousands
of impact craters.
2.VENUS
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and our closest planetary neighbor.
It is the hottest planet in our solar system and is sometimes called Earth's twin.
Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. Venus spins
slowly in the opposite direction from most planets.
3. EARTH
Earth – our home planet – is the third planet from the Sun, and the fifth
largest planet. It is the only place we know of inhabited by living things.
4. MARS
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest. It’s the only
planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots. It’s dry, rocky, and bitter cold. The
fourth planet from the Sun, Mars, is one of Earth's two closest planetary neighbors
(Venus is the other). Mars is one of the easiest planets to spot in the night sky – it
looks like a bright red point of light.
5. JUPITER
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the solar system –
more than twice as massive as the other planets combined. Jupiter's stripes and
swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an
atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant
storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.
6. SATURN
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar
System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-a-
half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth but is
over 95 times more massive.
7.URANUS
Uranus, seventh planet in distance from the Sun and the least massive of the
solar system's four giant, or Jovian, planets, which also include Jupiter, Saturn, and
Neptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-green
point of light. It is designated by the symbol
8. NEPTUNE
Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, giant Neptune is the eighth
and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun. More than 30 times as far from the
Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. In 2011, Neptune completed
its first 165-year orbit since its discovery. The planet’s rich blue color comes from
methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light, but allows blue
ones to be reflected back into space. Neptune was the first planet located through
mathematical calculations.
9. PLUTO
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit
of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly
orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small
margin, but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made
primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets. Pluto has
roughly one-sixth the mass of Earth's moon, and one-third its volume.
10. METEOROIDS
Meteoroids are space rocks that range in size from dust grains to small
asteroids. This term only applies when these rocks while they are still in space.
Most meteoroids are pieces of other, larger bodies that have been broken or blasted
off. Some come from comets, others from asteroids, and some even come from the
Moon and other planets. Some meteoroids are rocky, while others are metallic, or
combinations of rock and metal
11. ASTEROIDS
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor
a comet—that orbit within the inner Solar System. They are rocky, metallic, or icy
bodies with no atmosphere.
12. COMETS
Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar
system composed of dust, rock, and ices. They range from a few miles to tens of
miles wide, but as they orbit closer to the Sun, they heat up and spew gases and
dust into a glowing head that can be larger than a planet. This material forms a tail
that stretches millions of miles.
13. SUN
The Sun is the star at the heart of our solar system. Its gravity
holds the solar system together, keeping everything – from the biggest planets to
the smallest bits of debris – in its orbit. The connection and interactions between
the Sun and Earth drive the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation
belts and auroras. Though it is special to us, there are billions of stars like our Sun
scattered across the Milky Way galaxy.
THE SOLAR
SYSTEM AND
THE NINE
PLANETS
Submitted by:
Alexa Celyn L. Palin
Submitted to:
Mrs. Mara Rodriguez
