1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
9. Pluto
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The Planets
The Planets
• Mercury
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Mercury
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• Named for Mercury the Messenger God.
• Smallest planet (if Pluto is not counted)
• Takes 88 days to orbit the Sun
• Surface looks a lot like our Moon. Many craters
• Has no atmosphere for protection so:
daytime temp= 280° F.
nighttime temp= - 136° F
• Venus
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• Venus
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• Named for the Roman goddess of love. Also called Aphrodite
• A little smaller than the Earth
• Visited by the Space Probe Venera in 1982.
• Atmosphere is CO2 and Sulfuric Acid!!
• The hottest planet.
800 ° F !!! The surface is hot enough to melt metal!
• Earth
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• Earth
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• 3rd rock from the Sun
• A little bigger than Venus
• You live there!!!
• Only planet humans have
been on.
• Mars
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• Mars
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- 4th planet from the Sun
- Named after the God of war. Also called Ares.
He was a son of Jupiter.
- Has 2 moons
- The “red planet”. Lots of iron rust in the rocks and soil.
- Has polar ice caps. Artmosphere is carbon dioxide
• Life on Mars??
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• Jupiter Gas Giant #1
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Jupiter Gas Giant #1
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Named after Jupiter (Zeus) the King of the Gods
The largest planet. All others would fit inside it
Storm called The Great Red Spot
Has very thin rings
Dozens of moons
• Saturn
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Gas Giant #2
• Saturn
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Gas Giant #2
- Named after Saturn, the God of Time. He was a Titan,
and the father of Jupiter
- Known for it’s large rings
- Has dozens of moons
- Flattened at poles
•Uranus
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• Uranus
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GAS GIANT PLANET #3
• Named after the Greek God of the sky. (Uranus was the
husband of Mother Earth). Roman name is Caelus
• Atmosphere is H, He, and Methane (blue gas)
• Uranus is tilted sideways!!
• Takes over 84 years to orbit the sun one time
• Has over 27 moons and a faint ring
• Neptune
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GAS GIANT #4
• Neptune
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GAS GIANT #4
- Named after Neptune, the god of the sea.
(Brother of Jupiter and Pluto. Also called Poseidon)
- Neptune has very faint rings. (All the gas giants have rings)
- Takes 165 years to orbit the sun!
- Has about 13 moons
- Atmosphere is similar to Uranus. “Twin” planets.
•Pluto
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•Pluto
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- Named after the god of the underworld (brother
of Neptune and Jupiter). Also called Hades
- Discover in 1930. In Arizona!!!!!!!
- The last “planet” from the sun
- Has 1 moon, Charon
- Takes 248 years to orbit the sun
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WHICH PLANETS ARE THESE?
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