Extreme Planets
Extreme Planets
Extreme Planets
Our neighborhood in space is called the solar system. Our home planet Earth has temperatures that Saturn is a gas planet like Jupiter, but a little smaller.
It has planets, moons, asteroids, comets, meteoroids can range from more than 125 degrees F in This planet is most famous for its
and one star (the Sun). The planets can have extreme the deserts to -125 degrees F in Antarctica. Oceans rings. For a long time, people thought
conditions where they are very hot, cold, wet or dry. make up more than two-thirds of Earth and our Saturn had three rings. Then scientists sent robotic
Some planets also have craters, mountains, valleys and home has lots of mountains, valleys, deserts and an spacecraft and found thousands of rings orbiting the
inactive volcanos. Let’s check out some amazing facts atmosphere that we can breathe. Can you think of a planet. The rings are not solid but are made of small
about our extreme planets and try to imagine which new extreme sport that we could try on Earth? pieces of ice, gas and rocks. What sport could be
sports would be good matches for them. played in Saturn’s rings?
F un T hings To Do !
Look through this week’s
Hartford Courant to find:
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Our solar system is not the only place for
• News about new planet discoveries with the
Kepler Space Telescope
planets. There are planets beyond our
• News about NASA missions to other planets
solar system and we found more than two
thousand of them using the Kepler Space
The Children’s Museum Telescope. When you look up at the night
Visi t in West Hartford! sky and look at the faint stars, think
Check out the International Which planets are currently
about other planets orbiting those stars.
Space Station model in the visible in the sky? If there is life there, are they
Find out under the
GENGRAS TRAVELER’S looking back at us?
PLANETARIUM SCIENCE DOME