THE SUN

1
THE SUN

• The sun is not a planet, it is a star
• It is made of gases and it is always burning
• All the planets orbit around the sun
• It is very big (around 1 million earth planets)
• The sun gives us light and heat

2
MERCURY

• It is very small and rocky
• It orbits around the sun at 30 miles per second
• It hasnt got any moons

3
VENUS

• Venus is a small and rocky planet
• It is covered with poisonous clouds (sulfuric
  acid)
• It is very hot and it never rains
• It is very bright and you can see it from the
  Earth
• It orbits very slowly around the sun.
• One day in Venus is 243 days on Earth
• It spins backwards

4
THE EARTH

• It is called the WATER PLANET
• 70 of the Earth is covered with water
• There is life on Earth
• It has got one moon
• One year on Earth is 365 days

5
MARS

• It is a rocky planet and it is very cold
• It has got two moons
• It is red
• It is 141 million miles from the Sun.
• It has got ice on the poles
• There are sand storms and heavy winds

6
JUPITER

• It is a very big gas planet
• It has got 16 moons
• It is covered with gas clouds.
• It is the biggest planet in the Solar System

7
SATURN

• It has very big rings around it. The rings are
  made of ice.
• It has got 60 moons
• It is a gas planet and it is very light
• It has 18 moons
• One big moon in Saturn is called Titan and it has
  got air.
• The temperature is -170ºC
• It is 1.5 billion kilometres from the Sun.

8
URANUS

• It is a gas planet
• It has got 15 moons
• It is one billion miles away from the Sun.
• The temperature is -200º C
• It is the most strange planet in our Solar System.

9
NEPTUNE

• It is a very very cold planet and very big
• It is blue because its atmosphere is made of
  methane gas.
• It has got 8 moons
• Its rings are very small

10
PLUTO

• It is three million miles away from the Sun
• It has got one moon. It is called Charon
• It is the unvisited planet
• It is the farthest planet from the Sun.
• It is an icy planet