OUR SOLAR SYSTEM Fast Facts Namesake Diameter Distance

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperatures: Day: Night: Rotation: Revolution: Messenger of the Roman Gods 4878 km (The Earth is 12, 756 km) 57. 8 million km (36 million miles) 467 degrees C -183 degrees C 59 Earth days 88 Earth days Biggest Temperature Difference in the Solar System!

Mercury

Earth’s Sister Planet

Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperature: Rotation: Revolution: Atmosphere: Roman Goddess of Love 12, 100 km (The Earth is 12, 756 km) 108. 2 million km (67 million miles) 484 degrees C (900 degrees F) 243 days (Retrograde) 225 Earth days The OPPOSITE of Carbon Dioxide the Earth’s rotation! The HOTTEST planet in the Solar System!

Venus

(The only planet known to contain life) Fast Facts: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Rotation: Revolution: Tilt: 12, 756 km 149. 6 million km 23. 93 hours 365. 26 days 23. 45 degrees INTERESTING TIDBITS: - All of the things we need to survive are provided under a thin layer of atmosphere that separates us from the uninhabitable void of space. - Oceans at least 4 km deep cover nearly 70 percent of Earth's surface.

Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperature: Rotation: Revolution: Atmosphere: Moons (2): Gravity: Roman God of War 6, 786 km (The Earth is 12, 756 km) 253 million km (142 million miles) -143 degrees C to 17 degrees C 24. 6 hours 687 Earth days Carbon Dioxide Phobos and Deimos 1/3 of Earth’s Man-made, Alien-made or naturally occurring? : -)

Mars

This storm has been around for about 300 years! Over 12 Earth Fast Facts: diameters! Namesake: King of Roman Gods Diameter: 143, 200 km Distance from Sun: 778. 3 million km (484 million miles) Temperature: -148 degrees C Rotation: 9 hrs 55 min Revolution: 11. 9 Earth years Io, Europa, Ganymede Atmosphere: Hydrogen and Helium and Callisto - moons of Moons: 63 Jupiter Rings: 4 By far the most in the solar system!

Jupiter

“The Jewel of the Solar System” Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperature: Rotation: Revolution: Atmosphere: Number of Moons: Rings: Roman God of Agriculture 120, 536 km (Earth is 12, 756 km) 1. 4 billion km (886 million miles) -178 degrees C 10 hrs 40 min 29. 5 Earth years Hydrogen and Helium 46 Thousands Rings were first discovered by Galileo in 1610. one of its moons

Saturn

“The Sideways Planet” Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperature: Rotation: Revolution: Atmosphere: Rings: Moons: rotates Roman God, Father of the Titans “sideways”! 51, 120 km (The Earth is 12, 756 km) 2. 9 billion km (1. 8 billion miles) -216 degrees C (-357 degrees F) 17 hrs 14 min 84 Earth years Hydrogen and Helium 11 27

Uranus

Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperature: Rotation: Revolution: Atmosphere: Number of Rings: Number of Moons: Roman God of the Sea 49, 500 km (The Earth is 12, 756 km) 4. 5 billion km (2. 8 billion miles) -214 degrees C (-353 degrees F) 16 hours 165 Earth years Hydrogen and Helium 4 13

Neptune

Fast Facts: Namesake: Diameter: Distance from Sun: Temperature: Rotation: Revolution: Moons: Roman God of the Underworld 2, 400 km (The Earth is 12, 756 km) 5. 9 billion km (3. 7 billion miles) -233 degrees C (-387 degrees F) 6. 4 days 248 Earth years 1

Pluto

OUR TENTH PLANET? This artist's concept shows the planet catalogued as 2003 UB 313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. The new planet, which is yet to be formally named, is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is very cold and dark. The planet was discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif. , on Jan. 8, 2005.