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Planet Powerpoint

Planet Powerpoint. Brandon Lee 2 nd Period. Mercury. Closest planet to the sun. Named after the messenger of Roman Gods. Surface is heavily cratered much like our moon. Virtually no atmosphere… Sun’s rays are about 7x stronger than on Earth. Venus.

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Planet Powerpoint

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  1. Planet Powerpoint Brandon Lee 2nd Period

  2. Mercury • Closest planet to the sun. • Named after the messenger of Roman Gods. • Surface is heavily cratered much like our moon. • Virtually no atmosphere… • Sun’s rays are about 7x stronger than on Earth.

  3. Venus • Also called ‘the morning star’ and ‘evening star’. • Named after Roman goddess of love and beauty. • Atmosphere made up of carbon dioxide. • Most widely explored planet in our solar system. • Has mountains that are more then 5 miles high.

  4. Earth • Only known planet to harbor life. • Named after Erda, the Anglo-Saxon word for ‘ground’ and ‘soil’. • Atmosphere made up of Oxygen. • About 4.54 billion years old. • Earth is not a perfect sphere.

  5. Mars • Named after the Roman God of war. • Mars has the tallest Volcano in the Solar System named Olympus Mons and it is 15 miles high which is three times the height of Mount Everest. • Valleys and Canyons on Mars suggest that the planet once had large amounts of surface water. • Nicknamed the ‘Red Planet’.

  6. Jupiter • Largest planet in our solar system. • Named after the ruler of the Roman Gods. • Rotates faster than any planet in the Solar System. • Jupiter has a ring just like Saturn and Uranus. • Covered by an ocean of hydrogen with a sludge-like consistency.

  7. Saturn • The ringed planet. • Galileo was the first person to observe this planet. • Has the lowest density of all the planets in the solar system. • Rings are made up of billions of pieces of rocks and dust. • Atmosphere comprises mostly of Hydrogen and Helium.

  8. Uranus • Takes 84 years to make 1 orbit. • Named after the Roman God who was the father of the titans. • Mass is more than 14 times larger than Earth. • Because of the strange way it spins, nights on some parts of Uranus can last for more than 40 years.

  9. Neptune • Windiest planet in the solar system. • Named after the Roman God of the sea. • Neptune is so far away that it took the space probe Voyager 2, 12 years to reach it. • Atmosphere is made up of Hydrogen, Helium and Methane. • Is the stormiest planet. The winds there can blow up to 1,240 miles per hour, that is three times as fast as Earth's Hurricanes.

  10. Pluto’s Demotion • Named after the Roman God of the underworld. • Once was considered the 9th planet in solar system, demoted in 2006. • A full-fledged planet is an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity. • Pluto does not meet this criteria. • Considered ‘Dwarf Planet’.

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