SOLAR SYSTEM

(THE GAS GIANTS)

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The solar system consists of a star and all the objects orbiting it as well as all the material in that system. Our Solar System includes the Sun together with the eight planets and their moons as well as all other celestial bodies that orbit the sun. The planets are categorized into Terrestrial and Gaseous planets.

THE GASEOUS PLANETS

(THE GAS GIANTS)

JUPITER

Jupiter is the fifth planet  from the sun and the largest planet within the solar r system. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant. Jupiter is famous with it’s Great red spot. Jupiter has also its own ring.

SATURN

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god Saturn, its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle. Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. While only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times as massive as Earth. Saturn is famous with it’s beautiful rings.

URANUS

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both are of different chemical composition than the larger gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has an axial tilt of 97.77 degrees, so its axis of rotation is approximately parallel with the plane of the Solar System that’s why, Uranus rotates more like a tilted rolling ball. 

NEPTUNE

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is somewhat more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth but not as dense.

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Quiz 1

Jupiter is the largest planet.

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Saturn is the only planets in the solar system with rings.

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Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System

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Uranus has an axial tilt of 97.77 degrees

. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third largest by mass.

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

This Planet is famous with it’s Great red spot.

Saturn

Neptune

Jupiter

Uranus

This planet is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth

Uranus

Jupiter

Neptune

Saturn

The seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System.

Uranus

Neptune

Saturn

Jupiter

Match the following names of the planets to its picture.

JUPITER

SATURN

URANUS

NEPTUNE