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Cte 8 Solar System

The document summarizes the solar system. It describes the solar system as the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and objects that orbit it. It lists the eight planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and provides 1-2 sentences about each planet's characteristics and composition. It also includes three fun facts about the solar system formation, Mercury and Venus' lack of moons, and Neptune being the last planet discovered.

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Cte 8 Solar System

The document summarizes the solar system. It describes the solar system as the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and objects that orbit it. It lists the eight planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and provides 1-2 sentences about each planet's characteristics and composition. It also includes three fun facts about the solar system formation, Mercury and Venus' lack of moons, and Neptune being the last planet discovered.

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Solar

System
Sophia Albarracin
Yeshua Nautan
What is a Solar
system
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the
objects that orbit it. The largest eight objects, which form a
planetary system, are, in order of distance from the Sun: four
terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars; and four
giant planets which include two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and two
ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.
The 8 Planets
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
Mercury
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the
Solar System. It is a terrestrial planet with a heavily cratered surface due to
overlapping impact events. These features are well preserved since the
planet has no geological activity and an extremely tenuous atmosphere
called an exosphere. Despite being the smallest planet in the Solar System
with a mean diameter of 4,880 km (3,030 mi), 38% of that of Earth,
Mercury is dense enough to have roughly the same surface gravity as Mars.
Mercury has a dynamic magnetic field with a strength about 1% of that of
Earth's and has no natural satellites.
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a rocky planetwith
the densest atmosphere of all the rocky bodies in the Solar System, and
the only one with a mass and size that is close to that of its orbital
neighbour Earth. Orbiting inferiorly (inside of Earth's orbit), it appears in
Earth's sky always close to the Sun, as either a "morning star" or an
"evening star".With such prominence in Earth's sky, Venus has historically
been a common and important object for humans, in both their cultures
and astronomy.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only
astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled by
Earth being a water world, the only one in the Solar System
sustaining liquid surface water. Most of Earth's land is
somewhat humid and covered by vegetation, while large
sheets of ice at Earth's polardeserts retain more water than
Earth's groundwater, lakes, rivers and atmospheric water
combined.
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet and the furthest terrestrial planet from the Sun
. The reddish color of its surface is due to finely grained iron(III) oxide
dust in the soil, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet".[21][22]
Mars's radius is second smallest among the planets in the Solar System
at 3,389.5 km (2,106 mi). The Martian dichotomy is visible on the
surface: on average, the terrain on Mars's northern hemisphere is flatter
and lower than its southern hemisphere.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the
largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more
than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the
Solar Systemcombined, and slightly less than one one-
thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a
distance of 5.20 AU(778.5 Gm) with an orbital period of 11.86
years. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the Earth's
night sky after the Moon and Venus, and it has been observed
since prehistoric times. It was named after Jupiter, the chief
deity of ancient Roman religion
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the
second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is
a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-
a-half times that of Earth.[26][27] It has only one-
eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95
times more massive.
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous
cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of
water, ammonia, and methane in a
supercritical phase of matter, which in astronomy is called
'ice' or volatiles.
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun. It is the
fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-
most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the
mass of Earth, and slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus.
Neptune is denser and physically smaller than Uranus because its
greater mass causes more gravitational compression of its
atmosphere. Being composed primarily of gases and liquids, it has
no well-defined solid surface.
Fun facts

Both Mercury and Venus The Solar System was Neptune was the last planet to be
have no moons, which can be formed 4.6 billion years discovered. On the night of 23rd
considered a surprise given ago from a cloud of gas September 1846 astronomers
there are dozens of other ones discovered Neptune through a
and dust called the solar
around the Solar System. telescope.
nebula.
Sophia Albarracin
Thank You Yeshua Nautan

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