Solar System
Presented by:
• Jawad Zaidi
• Umair Khaliq
• Faizan UL Haq
Solar System
• The solar system is made up of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including
planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
• It extends from the Sun (called Sol by the ancient Romans), past the four inner planets,
through the Asteroid Belt, beyond the four gas giants, into the Kuiper Belt, and even
farther to the teardrop-shaped heliopause.
• Scientists estimate that the edge of the solar system is about 9 billion miles (15 billion
kilometers) from the Sun.
The Sun
The Sun
• The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system
• . It contains 99.8 percent of the solar system's mass.
• It emits most of the heat and light that makes life possible on Earth and
possibly elsewhere.
• Planets orbit the sun in oval-shaped paths called ellipses, with the sun
slightly off-center of each ellipse.
Mercury
Mercury
• Mercury is the closest planet to the sun but, perhaps surprisingly, it does
not have the highest temperatures.
• It is the second densest planet of the Solar System but also the smallest
planet.
• The structure of Mercury makes it the most similar planet to Earth.
Venus
Venus
• Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being further away from the Sun.
• A day on Venus is longer than a year.
• Its temperature is 462°C.
• 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
• Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun.
• It's the only planet known to have an atmosphere
containing free oxygen, oceans of water on its surface,
and, of course, life.
• Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles (13,000
kilometers) and is round because gravity pulls matter
into a ball.
• Average distance from the sun is 92,956,050 miles
(149,598,262 km).
Mars
Mars
• Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-
smallest planet in the Solar System.
• It’s called the Red Planet because its iron-rich dust gives
its landscape a rusty-red color.
• Mars’s gravity is 38 percent of Earth’s. So if you weigh 60
pounds here, you’d weigh about 23 pounds there.
• A Martian day is about 40 minutes longer
than a day on Earth.
Jupiter
Jupiter
• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in
the Solar System.
• Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system.
• Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets.
• It turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes.
• Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in
the solar system.
Saturn
Saturn
• Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-
largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
• Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System.
• Saturn has 62 moons.
• The length of the day on Saturn was a
mystery until recently.
Uranus
Uranus
• Uranus was officially discovered by Sir William Herschel
in 1781.
• Uranus makes one trip around the Sun every 84 Earth
years.
• Uranus is often referred to as an “ice giant” planet.
• Uranus hits the coldest temperatures of any planet, with
minimum atmospheric temperature of -224°C.
Neptune
Neptune
• Neptune is the most distant planet from the Sun.
• Neptune is the smallest gas giant.
• A year on Neptune lasts 165 Earth years.
• Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea.
• Neptune has 6 faint rings.
• Neptune spins on its axis very rapidly.
• Neptune has 14 moons.
