What’s The Solar
System?
The Earth that we live on,the Sun,and the Moon are all
parts of the Solar System because everything moves
around the Sun.There are nine planets in the Solar
System,and the Earth is just one of them. Most of
them have moons moving around them.
The Sun
The Sun is the biggest star in the Solar System. It is very
big that one million Earths could fit inside it. It is very hot- it’s the
hottest star that exist in the Solar System. It’s always moving. It
is dangerous to look directly at the sun.
Mercury
Is a small planet that orbits very close to the Sun.It’s the
closest planet to the Sun.The Sun’s light makes Mercury’s days
very hot, however, the nights are cold.It’s much colder than any
freezer. It’s because there is no air to stop the heat from
escaping.
Venus
Venus is the closest planet to Earth. On Venus the sky is
yellow and cloudy. The Sun makes Venus extremely hot. It
has enormous volcanoes. Sometimes they erupt at the same
time, covering the whole planet with lava. Many spaceships
have visited Venus, but they have been destroyed by the
heat an acid in the air.
Planet Earth
Earth is the planet we live on. It has only one moon. Most
of it’s surface is covered with water, so from space Earth looks
blue.Together, the water,air, and warmth from the Sun make life
on Earth possible.There are many different types of plants and
animals that live on Earth. It has many volcanoes and
earthquakes.
Mars
Mars is red because it is rusty. There is a lot of iron in the
soil, and the air on Mars has made it turn red. It’s poles are
covered with ice. The ice becomes thicker in the winter. It has
two tiny moons. Mars is covered with
deserts,canyons,craters,and gigantic dead volcanoes.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the biggest planet. It is 1,300 times the size of the
Earth. It spins around the Sun quickly,so it’s days are only ten
hours long. It doesn’t have a solid surface. It’s not possible to
land a spaceship on Jupiter. It’s a very stormy planet.It also has
many moons. Some moons are bigger than Mercury and Pluto.
Saturn
Saturn is a very beautiful planet. Saturn is so light that if
there was an ocean big enough, the planet could float in it.
Saturn’s rings are made of up of billions of pieces of rocks and
dust. It’s rings are very bright.
Uranus
Uranus is a huge,cold,blue-green world far out in space. It
is surrounded by many black rings and icy moons. Because of
the strange way it spins, the nights on some parts of Uranus can
last for more than 40 years.
Neptune
Neptune is an extremely cold blue planet. It is very far
away from Earth. The space probe Voyager 2 took 12 years to
reach it. Neptune has different moons; one of the moons is
called Triton,it has volcanic eruptions of liquid nitrogen. It is the
stormiest planet. The winds can can blow up to 1,240 miles per
hour.
Pluto
Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun. It is tiny, reddishbrown, and smaller than Earth’s moon. Because it’s very small
and distant, Pluto can only be seen from Earth by using a
powerful telescope. It is the only planet that no spaceship has
reached, we do not know what it really looks like.