Solar Stuff
Inner planets
Mercury
-Thin atmosphere, which allows lots of drastic temperatures.
-Closest to sun, rotates so slowly that one side is almost always hot or cold
Venus
-Thick atmosphere with so many greenhouse gasses that there is so much heat.
-Similar in size to earth
-Air pressure is like standing under an ocean
Earth
-Liquid water
-Temperatures allow life
-We can only see pictures from sattelites because we are on this planet
Mars
-Red because of iron in the rocks
-Was once maybe containing water due to thin atmosphere maybe
-Has mountains 3 times larger than mount everest.
Outer planets
Jupiter
They were probably once rocky, but the gas that the sun pushed away was nearby, and joined the planets due to gravity. Probably all have SOME rings?
click to edit
-Gas giant
-Core alone can contain ten earths
-Nearly 70 moons
-has a 400 year old storm
Largest planet in solar system
Saturn
-Least dense planet
Could probably float on water
-Gas giant with rings made of ice and rock in its gravitational pull I think?
Has titan, only moon with thick atmosphere
Sun
Pluto
Uranus
Tilted at an angle, giving it seasons
Ice giant
Tilts on its axis at an odd angle
A collision is probably responsible for the way it rotates.
Comets
Neptune
Farthest planet from the sun
Ice giant with high winds
Winds up to 1240 miles an hour, fastest in the entire solar system. Has a grey spot, which is also a storm, similar to Jupiter.
-Was considered a main planet until 2006
-I don't think it's made of gas.
Is smaller than earth's moon
Isn't big enough to clear objects out of its orbit.
Odd orbit that sometimes makes it closer to the sun than neptune.
Clumps of ice, dust, or rock that orbit the sun
When close to the sun, they have visible tails
Tails probably face away from the sun
The moon
the moon actually makes earth more livable by keeping earth from wobbling too much on its axis, I learned that the tidal rhythm that it creates is important, and that it probably spins on its axis at a similar rate of how it orbits the earth, because they both take about 27 days.
Eclipses
Lunar eclipses
Don't happen every month because the moon's orbit is tilted at an angle (5 degrees) and isn't always aligned with earth
Total lunar eclipses happen when sun, moon, and earth are perfectly aligned. Outside the penumbral shadow blue light is scattered from the earth's atmosphere. Red light is sent inward instead and makes the moon look red. Dust can block this out, though. Projects sunsets.
Partial eclipse: Moon position isn't perfect. Only part passes into the prenumbra. Shadow facing earth.
Penumbral eclipse: Only passes through penumbral shadow. Will only be slightly darker.
Safe to look at. Only visible because of the distance between sun and earth.
Solar eclipses
Total can only be seen in umbral.
Partial is visible in penumbral. Is off center.
Seen in night area.
Anular eclipse. Moon appears to small to cover sun because it is sometimes farther away from earth.
Hybrid eclipse. When annular and total occur in different parts of earth.
Bailies beads appear right before moon passes.
Corona is the light and chomosphere is the pink stuff.
Nodes points with full and new moon. When these line up with the sun it makes an eclipse.