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THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Introductory information, gas giants y terrestrial planets



TERRESTRIAL PLANETS


1. Mercury
- Internal structure
- Surface and Geology
- Atmosphere and climate
- Orbit and rotation
- Missions and observation
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)

2. Venus
- Internal structure
- Geography
- Geology
- Atmosphere and climate
- Orbit and rotation
- Exploration
- Venus and culture
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)

3. Earth
- Composition and structure
-Geology
- Atmosphere
- Weather and Climate
- Orbit and rotation
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)

4. Mars
- Geology and soil
- Structure
- Hydrography
- Atmosphere
- Climate
- Orbit and rotation
- Satellites
- Olympus mons
- Valles Marineris
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)

GAS GIANTS

5. Jupiter
- Composition
- Internal Structure
- The great red spot
- Orbit and rotation
- Satellites

- Orbital characteristics (chart)

- Physical characteristics (chart)


6. Saturn
- Internal structure
- Atmosphere
- Orbit and rotation
- Rings
- Satellites
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)


7. Uranus

- Internal structure
- Orbit and rotation
- Atmosphere
- Satellites
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)


8. Neptune
- Composition and structure
- Atmosphere
- Orbit and rotation
- Satellites
- Orbital characteristics (chart)
- Physical characteristics (chart)

CONVENCIONES POR COLORES

IMAGEN - Amarillo
AUDIO - Rojo
VIDEO - Verde
TEXTO - Fucsia
URL - Azul

THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND IT'S PLANETS

When we think about solar system, we probably think about the Sun (see image)and the planets orbiting around it, which is true, but it much more than that. There are more objects orbiting around the Sun, including moons, which orbit around the planets and revolve around the sun, five dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Erie), and some other small objects as asteroids, comets, meteoroids, dust, among others.

The solar system is divides into charts. These charts are shown below:

1. Inner Solar System

2. The Asteroid Belt

3. The Giant Planet Zone

4. The Kuiper Belt

5. The Scattered Disc

6. The Oort Cloud

Since this proyect is based on the Planets of the Solar System, we are going to focus on them.

The planets are located in two specific zones, as it's seen below.

The first of these two zones is the Inner Solar System, which comprises the four Inner Planets and the asteroird belt.

The planets into this zone lay one very close to another. They are so closed that the entire region is shorter than the distance between Saturn and Jupiter.The Inner planets are composed mainly silicates and metals.

The Inner planets are the following:

1. Mercury (see image)

2. Venus (see image)

3. Earth (see image)

4. Mars (see image)

The rest of the planets are located in the Giant Planet zone. These planets are usually called Gas Giants, which are composed mainly of gases including, ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium, which have low boiling points. This is due to the weak attraction to the Sun compared to the strong attraction of the Inner Planets, so they are composed mainly of light elements, such as volatiles, instead of heavy elements.

The four Gas Giants are:

1. Jupiter (see image)

2. Saturn (see image)

3. Uranus (see image)

4. Neptune (see image)

They are so massive that they collectively make up 99 percent of the mass orbiting the Sun.

Two of these planets, Jupiter and Saturn, are made up mainly of hydrogen and helium, while Uranus and Neptune are composed mainly of ices (methane, water and ammonia) so they are often called "Gas Giants".

Their moons are also massive and mainly composed of rocks.

All these planets revolve around the Sun (watch video), which is a star located in the center of the Solar System.

The Sun is a yellow dwarf according to the Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram (see image), which implies it is a medium sized star.

This diagram is a graph consisting of two axis, the brightness and the surface temperature. The Sun lies just in the middle of this graph.

The mass of the Sun is large enough to mantain nuclear fusion in it's core, which releases huge amount of energy, which is radiated as light and electromagnetic radiation. It's made up mainly of helium and hydrogen.