Wow! Our Solar System

For this post, we are looking at our solar system. Not just the solar system we also made a model of the solar system, with polystyrene. It took some periods, but it was awesome. It was fun. First, I got some polystyrene balls and coloured them. Next, I let them dry and added skewers and placed them on the polystyrene box. Later I attached the rings to Saturn. When I completed my model it looked outstanding. In this post, we will tell you why do outer planets or gas planets have rings. Comment down what you've learnt. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

The Solar System
Finished Product

Me painting Uranus

Me painting Mars

Me with the Solar System

What are the sizes of the Planets

The planets go from smallest to largest in diameter.

• Mercury - 4,879.4 km
• Mars - 6,787 km
• Venus - 12,104 km
• Earth - 12,756 km
• Neptune - 49,528 km
• Uranus - 51,118 km
• Saturn - 120,600 km
• Jupiter - 142,800 km

Rings

Why do gas planets have rings?

Well the outer planets are of course far away from the sun where they have more debris, (means something wrecked or destroyed) left over when they were formed, so they turned into rings or moons.

Why don't inner planets have rings?

The inner planets are too close to the sun and have more sunlight, the sunlight sublimes the ice (makes solid into gas), which makes the solar wind sweeps the dust away.

What I've learnt?

• The outer planets have rings because they have more debris.
• The inner planets don't have rings because the planets are too close and the solar wind sweeps the dust away.
• Mars is the second smallest planet
• Neptune is smaller than Uranus by 2,000 km.
• Saturn is x2 the size than Uranus - Uranus, 51,118 km - Saturn, 120,600 km
• Jupiter is nearly x3 the than Uranus - Uranus, 51,118 km - Jupiter - 142,800 km