4 Type of Plantes

TYPES OF PLANETS
1. Terrestrial planets are composed of rock, metals, with high densities, slow in rotation, with weak
magnetic field and absence of rings; namely, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
 MERCURY
o The smallest terrestrial planet in the solar system, about a third the size of Earth.
o It has a thin atmosphere, which causes it to swing between burning and freezing
temperatures.
o Mercury is also a dense planet, composed mostly of iron and nickel with an iron core.
o The surface of Mercury has many deep craters and is covered by a thin layer of tiny particle
silicates. In 2012, scientists found extensive evidence of organics — the building blocks of
life — as well as water ice in craters shaded from the sun.
o Mercury is so close to the Sun and its gravity, it wouldn’t be able to hold on to its own
moon. Any moon would most likely crash into Mercury or maybe go into orbit around
the Sun and eventually get pulled into it.
 VENUS
o The hottest planet in the solar system.
o About the same size as Earth.
o Venus has no known moons. Venus doesn’t have a moon is a mystery for scientists to solve
o which is about the same size as Earth, has a thick, toxic carbon-monoxide-dominated
atmosphere that traps heat, making it the hottest planet in the solar system.
o The planet is hostile to life as we know it.
o Much of the planet's surface is marked with volcanoes and deep canyons.
 EARTH
o The Blue Planet
o The only one planet with extensive regions of liquid water.
o Has a rocky surface with mountains and canyons, and a heavy-metal core.
o Earth's atmosphere contains water vapor, which helps to moderate daily temperatures.
o Have one Moon.
o The planet has regular seasons for much of its surface; regions closer to the equator tend to
stay warm, while spots closer to the poles are cooler and in the winter, icy. The Earth's
climate, however, is warming up due to climate change associated with human-
generated greenhouse gases, which act as a trap for escaping heat.
o Water is necessary for life as we know it, and life is abundant on Earth — from the deepest
oceans to the highest mountains.
o 332,946 Earths match the mass of the Sun. The Sun’s volume would need 1.3 million Earths
to fill it.
 MARS
o The Red Planet
o Has the largest mountain in the solar system.
o While scientists have found no evidence of life yet, Mars is known to have water ice and
organics — some of the ingredients for living things.
o Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos
o Has the largest mountain in the solar system, rising 78,000 feet (nearly 24 km) above the
surface.
o Much of the surface is very old and filled with craters, but there are geologically newer
areas of the planet as well.
o At the Martian poles are polar ice caps that shrink in size during the Martian spring and
summer.
o Mars is less dense than Earth and has a smaller magnetic field, which is indicative of a solid
core, rather than a liquid one.
o Evidence of methane has also been found in some parts of the surface. Methane is
produced from both living and non-living processes.
o THE RED PLANET . is also a popular destination for spacecraft, given that the planet may
have been habitable in the ancient past.

2. Jovian planets are composed of gases, with low densities but fast in rotation, have strong magnetic
field and has many rings namely, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
 JUPITER
o The largest Planet
o The planet’s strong winds blowing east to west create the banded structure in the
atmosphere.
- Jupiter is 11 times larger than Earth in diameter.
- They have lots of moons. Jupiter, for instance, has 79 known moons.
- The most well-known of Jupiter's moons are Io (pronounced eye-oh), Europa, and
Callisto.
- Jupiter also has the biggest moon in our solar system, Ganymede
o At great depths within Jupiter, for example, the hydrogen gas is compacted so tightly
that it exists in a rare metallic form.
o the brown clouds on Jupiter are deeper in the atmosphere than the planet’s white
ammonia clouds.
o Jupiter has 53 named moons and another 26 awaiting official names.
Combined, scientists now think Jupiter has 79 moons.
 SATURN
o Bright rings are the most visible and well known.
o The next largest, at nine times bigger than Earth.
o Has 53 moons that have been named. Saturn will have 62 moons. And that’s not counting
Saturn’s beautiful rings.
o Saturn’s moons have great names like Mimas, Enceladus, and Tethys.
o One of these moons, named Titan, even has its own atmosphere, which is very unusual for
a moon.
o Saturn also has nine moons awaiting confirmation. They’re unconfirmed because we’re
waiting to get more information about them. If all of these moons get confirmed,
 URANUS
o Methane gas in the atmosphere gives the planet its blue-green color.
o Uranus is roughly four times larger than Earth.
o Uranus has 27 moons that we know.
o Some of them are half made of ice.
 NEPTUNE
 The clouds in Neptune’s atmosphere are made up of methane ice crystals
 Neptune is roughly four times larger than Earth.
 Neptune’s pink white methane ice clouds are higher in the atmosphere than its blue
gaseous atmosphere.
 Neptune has 14 named moons. One of Neptune's moons, Triton, is as big as dwarf planet
Pluto.
 The clouds in Neptune’s atmosphere are made up of methane ice crystals, which appear
pink in the image because they are reflecting near-infrared light.

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