The Solar System By Zak Vukelja

This is my Solar System project. I learnt a lot while I was doing this assignment, like Pluto has a love heart on its surface. The reason I did  this on a website is because I had never even thought of making or creating a website but I wanted to try something new. My dad set up the website template but then I did the rest from there. Hope you enjoy it.

 

The Sun

  • The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system which means all the planets combined  is only 0.14 percent of the Solar System.

  • Over one million Earth's could fit inside the Sun.

  • One day the Sun will consume the Earth. 

  • The energy created by the Sun's core is nuclear fusion.

  • The Sun is almost a perfect sphere.

  • The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second.

 

Mercury 

  • Smallest planet

  • Nearest to the sun

  • Slightly larger than Earths moon

  • Has no Moons

  • 2nd hottest planet in the Solar System

Mercury_in_true_color.jpeg
 

Venus 

  • Has no Moons 

  • Has very strong winds

  • Hottest planet in the Solar System

  • 450 degrees

  • Hot enough to melt lead

  • Venus has crushing air pressure at its surface – more than 90 times that of Earth

  • Slightly smaller than Earth

venus20191211Venus20191211-16.jpeg
 

Earth

  • Only planet not named after greek or roman god

  • Only planet with water

  • Only planet that you can live on

  • Slightly larger than Venus

  • The name Earth is at least 1000 years old

  • Earth is a Germanic word, which simply means “the ground”

  • One Moon

the real earth.jpeg
 

Mars

  • Has 2 moons

  • NASA currently has two rovers (Curiosity and Perseverance)

  • 4 plant from the sun

  • Mars is also known as the red planet

  • Mars has 2 Moons called Deimos and Phobos

  • 4th planet from the Sun

mars.jpeg
 

Asteroid belt 

  • Is 4.6 billion years old

  • It is between the planets Mars and Jupiter

  • 329-479 km away from Sun

  • The asteroid belt is huge and the space between each of the asteroids is over 600,000 miles

asteroid-belt.png
 

Jupiter

  • Largest planet in the Solar System

  • Largest gas giant

  • more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined

  • Fastest spinning planet in the Solar System

  • Has a great big spot

  • 79 Moons

Jupiter.jpeg
 

Saturn

  • Saturn is the most distant planet that can be seen with the naked eye

  • Orbits the sun once every 29.4 Earth years

  • Saturn could float in water because its mostly made of gas

  • You can not stand on Saturn

  • Saturns rings are not solid

  • 82 Moons

saturn.jpeg
 

Uranus

  • Uranus is known as the sideway because it rotates on its side

  • Was the first planet found using a telescope

  • Uranus has 27 Moons

  • Uranus is an Ice Giant planet and nearly four times larger than Earth

  • Uranus' unique sideways rotation makes for weird seasons

Uranus_true_colour.jpeg
 

Neptune

  • Last planet in the Solar System 

  • Smallest gas giant

  • Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea

  • Has six faint rings

  • Coldest planet in the Solar System

  • Has the strongest winds in the Solar System

  • Neptune’s gravity is almost like Earth’s

neptune.jpeg
 

Dwarf Planets

  • Each day on dwarf planets is 22.5 hours

  • There are 6 dwarf planets (Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, and 2015 RR245)

  • Pluto has a love heart shape on it

the real pluto.jpeg
 

Oort Cloud

  • The Oort Cloud defines the Solar System's boundary

  • It’s really flexible

  • The Oort Cloud contains material from other stars

  • It is 7.4 trillion km large

Oort-Cloud-578fa93.jpeg