6.+Earth+&+Space

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**This topic is about the Solar System: This is where we live!**

PROFILES:
Our Solar System(the neighbourhood we live in!) What is a planet anyhow!?!?

Sol (Big, really really huge, really really hot, and really really magnetic)
 * Our star**
 * **View some amazing pictures of STAR TRAILS**.

Mercury (Rocky, small, hot, fast) Venus (Melting mountains and corrosive atmosphere) Earth (Mostly harmless!) Mars (Dusty, cold, dry, with pink skies)
 * The inner (Terrestrial) planets**

The asteriods (Construction debris of our system)
 * The Asteroid Belt**

Jupiter (The biggest Gas Giant of our system) Saturn (Another Gas Giant with lots of Rings and Moons) Uranus (Ice world rolling along) Neptune(Ice world with a giant moon)
 * The Outer (Jovian) Planets**

Pluto, Eris& other Kuiper belt objects (More construction debris with Pluto and friends) Oort Cloud (A long time ago and far, far, away . . .)
 * And beyond the outer planets?**

Comets & Meteors
 * And some other residents of our Solar System**

Bit's and Pieces:
Of course not, but read some questions people asked NASA about this comet (and NASA's very sensible and scientific answers). NASA's Spaceplace Kids Pages What is the Sun looking like at this moment? (click on the image of the sun to enlarge it) What else is there? (Latest News about the Universe) Astronomers work in Observatories
 * Will Comet Elenin bring about the end of the world in October 2011?**

See what is going on in the Solar System with NASA's Solar System Simulator. Try viewing earth from the moon! Then trying viewing Jupiter from one of its moons. How far has Voyager 1 travelled?

How old is the earth?