Mrs. Laudati’s Third Grade Visits the Solar System

1. Mrs. Laudati’s Third Grade Visits the Solar System

3. The sun is in the center of the solar system. All of the planets revolve around the sun.

5. Mercury Zachary Lisa

6. Mercury is the first planet in the solar system. • Mercury has no moons. • Mercury is an inner planet. • Mercury has rolling hills and ridges. • Mercury’s orbit is in the shape of an ellipse. • Mercury is 36,000,00 miles away from the sun.

8. Venus Sarah Ashley M. Cooper

9. Venus is the only planet that spins backwards. • Venus was named after the Roman Goddess of Love. • Venus has large craters and as many as 430 volcanoes. • Venus is hotter than Mercury. • A day on Venus is longer than a year.

10. Venus was discovered by Galileo. • Venus is 67,000,00 million miles from the sun. • If you look at the moon with binoculars, look below the moon and you might see Venus. • Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.

11. Earth

13. Mars Sharaya Jeancarlo

14. Mars was named after the Roman God of War. • Mars is a reddish orange color. • Mars may look dry as a desert but water once flowed over the surface. • There are clouds and fog on Mars. • It is hot in the daytime. • It is cold in the nightime. • There are dust storms on Mars.

16. Jupiter Jolie Ashley T.

17. One of the many mysteries on Jupiter is the great red spot. • The Voyager space probes found that Jupiter has a thin ring around it. • Jupiter has 28 moons and more may still be discovered. • Jupiter is the 4th brightest object in the sky. • Jupiter is a gas giant. • Jupiter is called the king of planets.

19. Saturn Diego Justin

20. Saturn is not round like a baseball.It is more the shape of a beachball when you sit on it. • It was discovered by Galleo Galilei in 1610. • Saturn’s temperature is 300 degrees below zero. • Saturn has thousands and thousands of rings. • Saturn is the least dense of the planets.

22. Uranus Christopher Cherrick

23. Uranus is surrounded by a strange magnetic field. • Uranus’s temperature is 350 degrees below zero. • Uranus can fit over 100 Earths inside it. • Uranus’s atmosphere is made out of hydrogen and helium gases. • Uranus has unknown black chunks in its rings. • Uranus is 4 times wider than the Earth.

25. Neptune Berny Ezra

26. Neptune is gas planet. • Neptune has the strongest winds in our Solar System. • Neptune has raging winds and dark hurricanes. • Sometimes Neptune is the ninth planet from the sun, but the rest of the time, it is back in eighth place.

27. Neptune has icy clouds and enormous storms. • Neptune is a blue planet. • Neptune’s rings are made of dark dust.

29. Pluto Alicia Paulina Michael

30. Pluto is over 3 billion miles from the sun. • Pluto has one moon. • Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. • Scientists don’t know if Pluto has an atmosphere or not. • Pluto is covered with ice and frozen gases.

31. Pluto is so far away that even the most powerful telescope cannot discover much about its surface. • Pluto was named after the God of the Underworld.

32. The End