Space Voyage

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Space Voyage

• Liz Puchnarewicz
• Mullard Space Science Laboratory
• University College London
• www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk

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Blast off from the Earth
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St. Cuthbert Mayne Cranleigh
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First stop the Sun

• Enormous hot ball of gas.
• 109 times bigger than the Earth.
• Only going to burn for another billion years!

This is an X-ray of the Sun!!
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Follow the Sun in the Sky

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Follow the Sun in the Sky
South

East
West
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The Giant Sundial
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So what does this mean?
The Earth spins around once a day
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Now on to Mercury
1 day 59 Earth days
Days very hot Nights very cold!!!
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And the next planet is
Venus!!!
1 day 243 Earth days 1 year 225 Earth days!!!
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Wave to your Mum the Earth is next
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Did you know that the Earth and Moon are a double
planet?
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Earth goes around the Sun Moon goes around the
Earth
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Earth goes around the Sun Moon goes around the
Earth
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These are the phases of the Moon
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Its Mars!Look out for little green men!!!
1 day 1 Earth day 1 year 687 Earth days
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JupiterThe nearest and biggest of the giants.
Great Red Spot
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Which is the flattest planet?
Saturn
And how do we know?
Because someone saturn it!!!
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This is Uranus
It takes 84 years to go around the Sun
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The next giant is Neptune (usually)
Great Dark Spot
Scooter
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And last of all - Pluto
and his friend, Charon. Its another double
planet!
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Watch the planets going in circles!
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Back to Earth
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Journey over!