Introduction

This is my presentation of the Solar System. I learnt a lot more about the Solar System from this project like the Asteroid Belt sits between Mars and Jupiter.

I chose to create a website because it was something I never have done before and I wanted to try something different. My dad helped me set up this website in Squarespace and I put in the pictures and all the writing.

The Sun

The Sun is a star.

The Sun is huge it is actually 696,340 km
The planets all orbit around the Sun.
The Sun is way bigger than the Earth.
The Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.
It gives light to all the planets
It is 4.6 billion years old
The Sun alone contains 99.8% of the total mass in the Solar System.
The Sun, like others stars, is a ball of gas

Mercury

Mercury, closest to the Sun.
Most extreme temperature fluctuations in the Solar System.
The smallest planet.
Survived impact with giant Asteroid.
Mercury's crazy orbit.
Mercury has ice.
It has a huge, iron core.
A NASA probe mapped Mercury's entire surface.

Venus

A day on Venus is longer than a year.
Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being further away from the Sun.
Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Venus spins clockwise on its axis.
Venus is the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon.

Earth

Earth is not flat, but it's not perfectly round either.
The days are getting longer.
There weren't always several continents.
Earth's icy times.
The driest place on Earth.
Earth's gravity isn't uniform.
In the past, sea levels were very different.
Our sun has a voracious appetite.

Mars

Mars had water in the ancient past
Mars has frozen water today
Mars has some extreme highs and lows in terrain
Mars has two moons – and one of them is doomed

Asteroid Belt

The Asteroid Belt is located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes but much smaller than planets, called asteroids or minor.