MY- M FOR MERCURY

VERY- V FOR VENUS

EDUCATED- E FOR EARTH
MOTHER M FOR MARS
JUST- J FOR JUPITER
SHOWS- S FOR SATURN
US U FOR URANIUS
NINE N FOR NAPTUNE
PLANETS- P FOR PLUTO

MERCURY

 Planet nearest to the sun

Considered as the fastest planet
Can be observed as the morning

and

evening star
Surface is believed to be filled with
craters and crisscrossed by ridges and
cliffs
Has a thin atmosphere of helium
Smallest in the inner planets

 Mercury

has a global magnetic field,

but only a trace of an atmosphere and
no moons of its own.
It is the second hottest planet after
Venus.
Mercury circles the Sun every 88 Earth
days at an average distance of 58
million km (36 million mi) and takes 59
days to turns on its axis.

 Mercury

was named for the fleetfooted messenger of the gods in

Roman mythology.

VENUS

Brightest of all the planets seen from the

earth
Can also be seen as an evening and morning
star
Considered as the earths twin
Spins clockwise (retrograde)
Rotation is longer than revolution
Hottest planet (its dense and cloudy
atmosphere of CO2 produces greenhouse
effect)
Surface has large volcanoes, impact basins
and continents
Full of volcanoes

The planet was named for Venus, the Roman

goddess of beauty.
Venus (Greek: Aphrodite; Babylonian: Ishtar) is
the goddess of love and beauty
Venus is the brightest object in the sky.
It is often called the morning star when it
appears in the east at sunrise, and the
evening star when it is in the west at sunset.
In ancient times the evening star was called
Hesperus and the morning star Phosphorus,
Eosphoros, or Lucifer.

EARTH

 Only

habitable planet
Earthsorbitalpathis not quite a
perfect circle but instead is slightly
elliptical (oval-shaped).
Earthisthefifthlargest planet in the
solar system.
Earthhasonenatural satellite, the
Moon..

MARS

 Earths closest celestial neighbor

Called the red planet
Has a thin atmosphere
Has floating clouds, violent storms

and
white polar caps made chiefly of CO2
Has no ozone on its atmosphere
Has also full of vass planes, largest
volcano in the solar system

Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War

Marshastwomoons,Phobos and
Deimos, which are named after the
sons of the Roman god Mars.

JUPITER

 Biggest planet
Fastest rotating planet
Surface gravity is 2.6 times

that of the

earths
Considered as a huge ball of hydrogen
mixed with helium in the form of solid,
liquid and gas.
Jupiter,encircledby at least 63 natural
satellites and a series of thin rings, is
similar to a miniature solar system.

 Jupiter

(a.k.a. Jove; Greek Zeus) was

the King of the Gods, the ruler of
Olympus and the patron of the
Roman state.
63satelites

 Due

to its prominence in the sky, the

Romans named the planet for their
chief god, Jupiter.
4 large moons
the moons of Jupiter: Adrastea,
Amalthea, Ananke, Callisto, Carme,
Elara, Europa, Ganymede, Himalia, Io,
Leda, Lysithea, Metis, Pasiphae, Sinope,
and Thebe

 Europa

(astronomy), large moon of

the planet Jupiter that scientists
suspect may have an ocean under
its icy surface.

 Callisto

(astronomy), large satellite

of the planet Jupiter.
Callisto is spherical and is the thirdlargest moon in the solar system.

 Ganymede

(astronomy), satellite of
the planet Jupiter and the largest
moon in the solar system.

 Second

largest planet
Has a cloudy atmosphere of methane
and ammonia
Has a low density
Believed to be made loosely packed
snow and ice
Has magnetic system of rings
Has a very spectacular ring

 In

Roman mythology, Saturn is the

god of agriculture.
Saturn has 53 named satellites

 As

seen from Earth, Saturn appears

as a yellowish objectone of the
brightest in the night sky.
Saturnhasatleast60 moons.

 the

moons of Saturn: Atlas, Calypso,

Dione, Enceladus, Epimetheus,
Helene, Hyperion, Iapetus, Janus,
Mimas, Pan, Pandora, Phoebe,
Prometheus, Rhea, Telesto, Tethys,
and Titan

 Thefivelargerinner
1.Mimas,
2.Enceladus
3.Tethys
4.Dione
5.Rhea
are roughly

satellites

spherical in shape and

composed mostly of water ice.

 Third

largest planet
Has very low density
Has a system of rings
Its atmosphere is made up of
hydrogen and methane
First planet that is discover
Uranus was the first planet
discovered by using a telescope.

 Uranus

is named after the god of the

heavens in Greek and Roman
mythology.
Astronomershaveidentified 13 rings
of debris encircling Uranuss equator.
27 moons of planet uranus

 the

moons of Uranus: Ariel, Belinda,

Bianca, Caliban, Cordelia, Cressida,
Desdemona, Despina, Juliet,
Miranda, Oberon, Ophelia, Portia,
Puck, Rosalind, Sycorax, Titania, and
Umbriel

 Appears

a pale green/blue green planet

due to methane in its atmosphere
Atmospheric gases include hydrogen
methane and ethane
Twins of Uranus
Neptunehasfourrings and 13 known
moons.
The planet is named after the sea god
Neptune in Roman mythology.

 In

Roman mythology Neptune (Greek:

Poseidon) was the god of the Sea.
Neptune has 13 known moons; 7
small named ones and Triton plus
four discovered in 2002 and one
discovered in 2003.

 the

moons of Neptune: Galatea,

Larissa, Naiad, Nereid, Proteus,
Thalassa, and Triton.
Astronomers identified four rings of
debris encircling Neptunes equator.

 In

Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek:

Hades) is the god of the underworld.
Outermost planet

 Its

composition is 74% water ice,

21% rocks, 5% methane ice
Its atmosphere is thin methane gas
Pluto was named after the god of the
underworld in Roman mythology.
Charon is the moon of the pluto