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A JOURNEY THROUGH
TIME AND SPACE
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THE SUN
The Sun, the star that
dominates the solar
system, support all life
on Earth.
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This image reveals the filamentarynature of the plasma connectingregions of different magnetic polarity.The chromosphere is a thin layer ofsolar atmosphre sandwiched betweenthe visible surface, photosphere andcorona.
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Photo Credit & Copyright: Ralph
Encarnacion
Age : About 4.5 billion years
Surface Area: 2,347 000 000 000 square miles
Composition : Mostly hydrogen and helium
Surface temperature: About 10,000 degrees F
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MERCURY
The closest planet to
the Sun, Mercury has
the shortest orbit; a
mere 88 days
Credit : NASA/Johns Hopkin s University Applied Physics
Laboratory /Carnegie Inst itut ion of Washingto n
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Average Distance from the Sun : 36 million niles
Atmosphere : Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon
Surface temperature: -279/801 degrees F (min/max)
Length of day: 58.646 earth days
Credit : NASA/Johns Hopkin s University Applied Physics
Laboratory /Carnegie Inst itut ion of Washingto n
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VENUS
The second closest planet to the
Sun, Venus is called the morning
star and the evening star.
Average Distance from the Sun : 67,237,910 miles
Atmosphere : Carbon dioxide, nitrogen
Surface temperature: 864 degrees F (average)
Length of day: 117 earth days
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Impact craters on the surface of Venus (imagereconstructed from radar data)
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E RTH
The third planet from the Sun,
Earth is the only planet known to
harbor life.
Average Distance from the Sun : 92,955,820 miles
Atmosphere : Nitrogen,oxygen
Surface temperature: -126/136 degrees F (min/max)
Length of day: 24 hours
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M RS
Mars is sometimes called the Red
Planet for its red, iron-oxide rich
soil.
Average Distance from the Sun : 141,633,260 miles
Atmosphere : Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon
Surface temperature: -125/23 degrees F (min/max)
Length of day: 1.026 Earth days
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Rock strewn surface imaged by Mars Pathfinder
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Size comparison of Earth and Mars
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STEROID
Asteroids are rocky fragments
leftover from the birth of the solar
system;most orbit the Sun in a
belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Distance to Sun: The asteroid Phaethon comes closest to the Sun at 13.9 millionmiles
Largest known asteroid : Ceres (estimated diameter 590 miles)
Number of asteroids in solar system ; More the 1 million
Total mass of asteroids: Less than the mass of the Moon, 7.3483 10^22 kg
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The first asteroid to be imaged in close up
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JUPITER
The is the largest planet in the
solar system.
Average Distance from the Sun : 483,682,810 miles
Atmosphere : Hydrogen, helium
Surface temperature: -162 degrees F (average)
Length of day: 0.41354 Earth days
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Approximate size comparison of Earth andJupiter, including the Great Red Spot
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S TURN
Galileo was the first person to
observe Saturn, the ringed planet.
Average Distance from the Sun :885,904,700 miles
Atmosphere : Hydrogen,helium
Surface temperature: -218 degrees F (average)
Length of day: 0.44401 Earth days
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Four of Saturn's moons: Dione, Titan, Prometheus(edge of rings), Telesto (top center)
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UR NUS
It takes Uranus, the seventh
planet from the Sun, 84 Earth
years to make one orbit.
Average Distance from the Sun :1,783,939,400 miles
Atmosphere : Hydrogen, helium, methane
Surface temperature: -323 degrees F (average)
Length of day: 0.7196 Earth days
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This color results from the presence of methane inUranus' atmosphere; the gas absorbs red wavelengths oflight, leaving the predominant hue seen here.
Image Credit : NASA/JPL
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NEPTUNE
Neptune, the eight planet from the
Sun, is though to be the windiest
in the solar system
Average Distance from the Sun : 2,795,084,800 miles
Atmosphere : Hydrogen, helium, methane
Surface temperature: -303 degrees F (average)
Length of day: 0.67125 Earth days
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A size comparison of Neptune and Earth
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Bands of high-altitude clouds cast shadows on
Neptune's lower cloud deck
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PLUTO
Once considered the solar systems
nith planet. Pluto was
downgraded to dwarf planet in
2006.
Average Distance from the Sun : 3,670,050,000 miles
Atmosphere : A layer of frozen methane, nitrogen andcarbon monoxide temporarily forms a thin atmospherewhen Pluto is close to the Sun.
Surface temperature: -369 degrees F (average)
Length of day: 6.387 Earth days
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Pluto and its three known moons
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Pluto's volume is about 0.66% that of Earth
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