THE SOLAR SYSTEM!!!!

Charles Jones

The center of it all. The Sun!!

The sun is the center of our universe. It can produce sun spots and sometimes

solar flares.

Mercury

The distance from the sun is 35,980,000 miles.

It is the smallest planet in our solar system.

It’s orbit around the sun is around 88 earth days.

venus

Named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

The second planet from the Sun. It’s surface is gaseous.

Earth

The planet in our solar system to have life.

Surface is covered mostly in water. ( where it got its nickname the blue planet.)

Third planet away from the sun. Takes a year to orbit the sun and a day

to rotate.

Mars

141,600,000 miles is the distance away mars is from the sun.

Fourth planet away from the sun. Named after the roman god of war. It is nicknamed the red planet from how

it looks. Its orbit is 687 earth days around the

sun.

Jupiter

The 5th planet away from the sun and the largest in our solar system.

It is a gas planet meaning it does not have a solid surface.

It has a huge storm bigger than earth called a great Red spot located below the equator.

saturn

It is a gas giant. It has visibly large ring going around it. Has many cloud layers on the planet. It has about 153 moons.

Uranus

1,787,000,000 miles is Uranus's distance from the sun.

It is a peculiar planet as it spins on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane. (meaning its like on its side)

It also has rings that a from north to south but not as visible as Saturn's.

Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter

It is the third-largest planet by mass. It is the most dense amongst the gas

planets in the solar system.