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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
Administration)

NASA offers a lot of different jobs.

NASA is broken in different categories of types
jobs.
• 60% is Engineering and Scientific (computer
engineering, computer science, and
meteorology)
• 24% is Administrative and Management
(Administrative specialist, and Budget Analy

• 7% is Clerical and Administrative Support

(Secretary)
• 9% is Technical and Medical Support (Electro
technician, and Meteorological technician)
Planets In Our
Solar System
Types of planets
• Our solar system has three types of planets.
• Terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars)
• Second type is gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn)
• Third type is ice giants (Neptune, Uranus)
• Terrestrial means that a planet is composed primarily of rocks, or
metals.
• Gas Giants means that a planet is composed primarily of hydrogen,
helium, methane, and ammonia.
• Ice Giants means that a planet is composed mainly of elements
like oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.
Sun
The sun is the center of the solar system all
planets orbit around the sun.
Age of the sun is about 4.6 billion years
Type of sun Yellow Dwarf
The sun is in its middle age has not changed
much
Our sun is not the hottest. The hottest stars
would be blue stars(surface temperature is
about 72,000 F) which can mean that the star is
young. The least hottest would be red stars
surface temperature are about 6,700 F, or less.
The Sun's surface temperature is about
10,000 Fahrenheit
The core is about 27 million Fahrenheit
Earths 's surface temperature is about 59
Fahrenheit
The Sun is made out of gases 70%
hydrogen, 28% helium, and Carbon,
nitrogen and oxygen make up 1.5%
The last .5% is made out of neon, iron,
silicon, magnesium and sulfur.
Facts about the Sun
• Eventually the sun will consume Earth, because the sun will run out of
hydrogen, and cause the sun to expand and cover Mercury, Venus,
and Earth. Then the sun would turn into a red giant sun.
• The sun has enough hydrogen to burn for about 5 billion more years.
• You can fit about 1.3 million earths into the sun.
• Light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach earth.
• Mercury
Mercury was discovered in 265 BC.
Mercury is the smallest planet in the
solar system and the closest to the
sun .
Mercury does not have moons
orbiting it.
Age is about 4.5 billion years
Mercury is the second hottest
planet in our solar system.
Temperatures average from –279F
at night to 801F at day.
Mercury is not hot, because it's
atmosphere is really weak.
Facts on Mercury
• Mercury is almost the same size as our moon, but is
a little bigger.
• 88 days in Earth is equal to 1 year in Mercury.
• Hard to study, because it's so close to the sun.
• Mercury's iron core takes up 75% of the planet's
radius
• You would also weigh less in Mercury 38% less
• Only two space crafts have visited Mercury
Venus
• Venus has no moons
• Venus age is 4.503 billion years old
• Named after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty
• Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system
• Venus temperature averages to 864 F
• Venus's has an iron core
• Venus's mantle is rocky
• Venus's atmosphere is made out of carbon dioxide
96%, and 3% is nitrogen and other gases make up the 1
%.
• Venus was discovered in 1610.
Facts on Venus
• Venus has the most volcanoes in our solar system and scientist think
that the volcanoes are still active.
• Winds are really fast at Venus and reach speeds up to 450 miles/Hour
• Venus is covered of thick clouds of sulfuric acid and light cannot
penetrate through. Also telescopes cannot see Venus' surface
• You are able to see Venus without a telescope due to it being so
bright in the night.
Earth
• Earth is about 4.54 billion years old
• Has an atmosphere that is made up of gases 78% nitrogen,
21% oxygen, .93% Argon, and .04 carbon dioxide
• Earth has one moon
• Earth's ocean makes up 71% of Earth's surface, and contains
97% of Earth's water. 29% of Earth's surface is land.
• Earth has a core, Earth's inner core is made out of iron, and
nickel.
• The core's temperature is about 10,800 F about the same
temperature as the sun's surface.
• Only 3% of Earth's water is fresh
The reasons why we are able to live on Earth.

• Earth has fresh water that keeps humans,

animals, and plants alive.
• Earth also has oxygen that helps us to produce
energy for our bodies, and keeps us alive.
• Earth also has plants, and trees that produce
oxygen.
• We also have an atmosphere that that
protects us from the sun's radiation, and
captures heat to keep us warm.
• Lastly Earth has a magnetic field that protects
us from space radiation and solar winds
Facts on Earth

Earth has a population of 7.6

billion people.
Earth is a terrestrial planet
Mars
• Mars was discovered in 1659.
• Mars was named after the Roman God
of war.
• Mars has a diameter of 4,212 miles.
• Mars is the second smallest planet in
our solar system.
• Mars has a surface and it is made out of
rocks, and a thick layer of oxidized iron.
• Mars has 2 moons.
• Mars has a thin atmosphere that is
made of 95% carbon dioxide , 1.89%
Nitrogen , and 1.93% argon
Facts on Mars
• Mars is a terrestrial planet.
• Mars has the largest volcano named Olympus
Mons measuring 600 kilometer in length and
16 miles high.
• Mars is 54.6 million kilometers from Earth.
• Mars winds can reach up to 60 miles/hour
 • NASA is trying to send
people to Mars in 2030.
• NASA has even started
programs that would help
send humans to Mars.
• NASA has sent rovers to
Mars to study the climate of
mars, study soils, and rocks.
To see if there is water
activity in Mars, or if there
was water activity. Lastly the
last goal for the rover is to
prepare for human
exploration in mars.

People going to Mars

Jupiter
• Jupiter has 67 moons, and 4 rings
• Jupiter was named after the kings in Roman mythology.
• Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, and the
biggest gas giant.
• 1,300 earths can fit in Jupiter.
• Jupiter was discovered in 1610
• Jupiter has a diameter of 86,881 miles
• Jupiter's atmosphere is made out of 90% hydrogen, and
10% helium.
• Jupiter is made up of water, methane, and ammonia.
Facts on Jupiter
• Jupiter has the biggest moon in the solar system named Ganymede, and
has a diameter of 3,274 miles.
• Jupiter has a red dot that is a high pressure region that produces an
anticyclonic storm.
• Anticyclonic is a storm that the winds around the storm flow in the
opposite direction to a region of low pressure storm.
• The red dot storm has been ragging about 200 years.
• Jupiter has no outer crust.
• Jupiter's core temperature can average to 43,000 degree F
• Jupiter is the oldest planet in our solar system
Jupiter
Saturn
• Saturn is the second biggest planet.
• Named after the God of agriculture
and harvest.
• Saturn is mostly made out of gases.
• Saturn atmosphere is made out 96%
Hydrogen, and 3% methane,
ammonia...
• There are a total of 62 moons, but
only 53 moons have official names.
• 764 Earths could fit in Saturn.
• Saturn has rings
• The rings are made out of dust,
and rocks and ice.
• Saturn was discovered in 1610
Facts on Saturn
• You are able to see Saturn with your bare eyes, but
Saturn will look like a bright golden star.
• Saturn has storms that can last up to for months or years.
• Saturn has the second biggest moon in our solar system
named Titian.
• Has 5 different layers of atmosphere (stratosphere, haze,
ammonia ice, ammonium hydrosulfide ice, and water ice.
• Average temperature –288 F
Uranus

• Uranus is an ice giant, because it's composed of

mostly gases. For example, ices, water, ammonia and
methane.
• Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system
temperature average –357 F
• Uranus also has 13 rings, and 27 moons.
• Uranus was named after Greek God of the sky.
• Uranus diameter is 31,518 miles
• 63 Earths can fit in Uranus
• Uranus is the third largest planet in our solar system
• Age 4.503 billion years old
• Uranus was discovered in 1781
Neptune
• Neptune was named after a Roman God of the
sea
• Neptune has 14 moons
• Neptune's atmosphere is made up of gases
about 80% hydrogen, and 19% helium.
• Neptune has a small rocky core
• Neptune's age is about 4.503 billion years old.
• 57 Earths can fit in Neptune
• Neptune was discovered in 1846
Facts on Neptune
• Neptune is the fourth biggest planet in our solar
system.
• Neptune is an ice giant, because Neptune is mostly
composed of gases
• Neptune has an active climate such as storms, and
the winds are super-fast a max speed of 1,300
mph.
• The color of Neptune is blue.
• Neptune's average temperatures is –353 F.
• Neptune's biggest moon is Triton with a diameter
of 1,680 miles.
• Has a mantel that is made out of water, ammonia,
and methane ices.
Sources
• https://space-facts.com/planets/
• https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/