- The solar system consists of the Sun and eight planets in orbit around it (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune), along with two dwarf planets (Pluto and Ceres). - The inner planets are small and rocky, while the outer planets are large and gaseous. Earth is the only known planet capable of supporting life. - Each planet has unique characteristics such as composition, size, and orbital properties. Other objects in the solar system include asteroids, comets, and a Kuiper belt beyond Neptune's orbit.

2. OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
By Shreyas Kusume

4. SOLAR SYSTEM

5. Outward from the Sun, the planets
are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, followed
by the dwarf planet Pluto.

6. MERCURY
• Smallest planet in the Solar System
• Closest to the Sun.
• Takes 87.97 Earth days to complete one
revolution around the sun.
• It is named after the Roman
god Mercurius (Mercury).

7. VENUS
• Second planet from the Sun.
• Hottest planet in the solar system.
• Orbits the Sun every 224.7 earth days.
• It appears in the east before sunrise and in
the west before. Sunset. So Venus is called
the morning and evening star.

8. EARTH
• Earth is the third planet from the sun.
• The only place inhabited by living beings.
• It is the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on
the surface . Hence, it is known as the blue planet.
• The Earth completes one revolution of the sun in 365 days
and 6 hours.

9. MARS
• Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
• Mars's surface mainly consists of iron oxide, which gives it
a reddish appearance . So it is called the red planet.
• There is a slim chance that microbial life exists on Mars today, perhaps
under the planet’s ice caps or in subsurface lakes.
• The possibility of the life on Mars is a subject of interest in the
astrobiology due to its proximity and similarities to Earth.

10. JUPITER
• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and
the largest in the Solar System.
• It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a
half times that of all the other planets in the Solar
System combined.
• It has the largest moon in the solar system,
Ganymede.
• It was discovered by Galileo Galilei. It has a
prominent Great Red Spot which is a weather
phenomenon.

11. SATURN
• Sixth planet from the Sun.
• Second-largest in the Solar System.
• It has 82 moons. Titan is its largest moon.
• The most famous feature is its prominent ring
system, which is composed mostly of ice
particles, with a smaller amount of rocky debris
and dust.

12. URANUS
• Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
• Its name is a reference to the Greek god of
the sky, Uranus.
• Uranus has a ring system, a magnetosphere,
and numerous moons.

13. NEPTUNE
• Neptune is the eighth and farthest known
Solar planet .
• It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter,
the third-most-massive planet, and the
densest giant planet.
• Coldest planet in the solar system.

14. MORE FACTS
• Pluto used to be called the ninth planet from the sun.
In August 2006 the International Astronomical Union
(IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of “dwarf
planet.”

15. ASTEROIDBELT
• The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar
System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets
Jupiter and Mars. It contains irregularly shaped bodies, called
asteroids or minor planets.

16. KUIPERBELT
The Kuiper belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar
System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30
astronomical units to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.
It is similar to the asteroid belt.