Project on Solar system and its nearby planets from earth

About solar system and finding nearby planets from the earth

1. SOLAR SYSTEM
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A N D I T S P L A N E T S

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I N T R O D U C T I ON
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P L A N E T S
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3. INTRODUCTION
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Why is it called the "solar" system?
There are many planetary
systems like ours in the
universe, with planets
orbiting a host star. Our
planetary system is named the
"solar" system because our
Sun is named Sol, after the
Latin word for Sun, "solis,"
and anything related to the
Sun we call "solar."

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M E R C U R Y
V E N U S
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M A R S
J U P I T E R
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Planets of our solar system

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7. PLANETS
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Planets of our Solar System
There are more planets than stars in our galaxy.
The current count orbitingour star:eight.
The inner, rocky planets
areMercury,Venus,EarthandMars..The outer
planets are gas giantsJupiterandSaturnand ice
giantsUranusandNeptune.
Beyond Neptune, a newer class of smaller worlds
called dwarf planets reign, including longtime
favoritePluto. Thousands more planets have been
discovered beyond our solar system. Scientists
call themexoplanets(exo means "from outside.")

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Planets in Our Solar System
PRIMARY DWARF HYPOTHETICAL
Caltech researchers have found mathematical
evidence suggesting there may be a "Planet X"
deep in the solar system.
The universe contains unique objects that don't
always fit into neat categories
likestars,planetsandgalaxies (Pluto,Eris,
Ceres, Makemake,Haumea).
A planet is a celestial body that is in orbit
around the Sun, has sufficient mass for its
self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so
that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium
shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood
around its orbit.

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Mercury
The smallest planet in our solar system and
nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only
slightly larger than Earth's Moon.
From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would
appear more than three times as large as it
does when viewed from Earth, and the
sunlight would be as much as seven times
brighter. Despite its proximity to the Sun,
Mercury is not the hottest planet in our
solar system – that title belongs to nearby
Venus, thanks to its dense atmosphere.

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Venus
Similar in size and structure to Earth,
Venus has been called Earth's twin. These
are not identical twins.
Venus has a thick, toxic atmosphere filled
with carbon dioxide and it’s perpetually
shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of
mostly sulfuric acid that trap heat,
causing a runaway greenhouse effect. It’s
the hottest planet in our solar system,
even though Mercury is closer to the Sun.
Venus has crushing air pressure at its
surface is similar to the pressure you'd
encounter a mile below the ocean on Earth.

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Earth
Our home planet is the third planet from the
Sun, and the only place we know of so far
that’s inhabited by living things.
While Earth is only the fifth largest planet
in the solar system, it is the only world in
our solar system with liquid water on the
surface.
The name Earth is at least 1,000 years old.
All of the planets, except for Earth, were
named after Greek and Roman gods and
goddesses. However, the name Earth is a
Germanic word, which simply means “the
ground.”

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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a
dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin
atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet
with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons,
extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was
even more active in the past.
Mars is one of the most explored bodies in
our solar system, and it's the only planet
where we've sent rovers to roam the alien
landscape. Two NASA rovers and one lander are
currently exploring the surface of Mars. An
international fleet of eight orbiters are
studying the Red Planet from above.

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Jupiter
Jupiter has a long history surprising
scientists—all the way back to 1610 when
Galileo Galilei found the first moons beyond
Earth.
Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by
far, the largest planet in the solar system.
Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are
actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and
water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen
and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot
is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has
raged for hundreds of years.

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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the
Sun and the second largest planet in
our solar system.
Adorned with thousands of beautiful
ringlets, Saturn is unique among the
planets. It is not the only planet to
have rings—made of chunks of ice and
rock—but none are as spectacular or
as complicated as Saturn's.
Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn
is a massive ball made mostly of
hydrogen and helium.

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Uranus
The first planet found with the aid of a
telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by
astronomer William Herschel, although he
originally thought it was either a comet or a
star.
It was two years later that the object was
universally accepted as a new planet, in part
because of observations by astronomer Johann
Elert Bode. Herschel tried unsuccessfully to
name his discovery Georgium Sidus after King
George III. Instead the scientific community
accepted Bode's suggestion to name it Uranus,
the Greek god of the sky, as suggested by
Bode.

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Neptune
Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds,
ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most
distant planet in our solar system.
More than 30 times as far from the Sun as
Earth, Neptune is the only planet in our
solar system not visible to the naked eye and
the first predicted by mathematics before its
discovery.
NASA'sVoyager 2is the only spacecraft to
have visited Neptune up close. It flew past
in 1989 on its way out of the solar system.

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I think we have a good chance
of surviving long enough to
colonize the solar system.
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