SPACE
Let’s start with
numbers.
Billion – 1 000 000 000
Million – 1 000 000
If you have a bag with a million
dollars in it, you have a lot of
money.
If you have a thousand of those
bags, you have a billion dollars.
A billion minutes ago Jesus
was alive.
A billion minutes ago Jesus
was alive.
A billion grains of sand?
A billion grains of sand?
A billion grains of sand?
How many times around the
earth is a billion km?
How many times around the
earth is a billion km?
24 953
Earth to the moon and back?
Earth to the moon and back?
Not even a billion
The CN tower in mm?
The CN tower in mm?
Not even a million
It would take 2000 CN towers
stacked up to reach a billion mm.
Got it?
A billion is big
SPACE
The Universe is 13 billion years old.
The earth is 4.5 billion years old.
So, how’d it
all start.
Planets
sun
mercury
VENUS
earth
mars
Jupiter
saturn
uranus
neptune
mercury
Rocky, small, not that
interesting really.
mercury
VENUS
Our closest neighbour!
VENUS
Crazy!!
The temperature on Venus is 470
degrees!
(35 degress on Earth is very hot.
200 degrees is a very hot oven!)
VENUS
On Venus it rains acid!
VENUS
The sun never shines
because the sky is covered
in chemical clouds!
VENUS
VENUS
VENUS
VENUS
earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
mars
Mars
It’s red.
Mars
It’s red.
Because of rust!
Mars
There might be ancient
rivers on Mars!
Mars
There might be frozen
water on Mars.
Mars
There might be life on
Mars!
Mars
We’re up there looking
for life right now.
Mars
Mars
Mars
Mars
Jupiter
Jupiter
Huge!
Jupiter
Made of gas (It’s like a
crazy, windy, hot, acid
cloud)
Jupiter
Jupiter probably smells
like Windex.
Jupiter
Jupiter is so big that all
of the planets could fit
inside it.
Jupiter
Jupiter is bigger than
1000 earths.
Jupiter
Jupiter has 67
moons!
Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter has 67
moons!
saturn
Saturn
Wow! Let’s just look at
some photos of the rings.
Saturn
Saturn is also made of gas.
Saturn is also @#!$# cold!
Saturn
Saturn is also made of gas.
Saturn is also @#!$# cold!
Saturn
Saturn has 53 moons!
Saturn
Saturn has 53 moons!
(more on that later)
uranus
Uranus
Boring, freezing, far
away, dumb name.
Uranus
It has rings too.
neptune
Neptune
Boringer, freezinger,
farther away.
Neptune
Has rings also, but
who cares.
Saturn
Back to
Saturn
Saturn
Listen to
this:
Saturn
Saturn’s rings are so,
so, so big:
Saturn
Saturn’s rings are so,
so, so big:
150 000km across
Saturn
But
Saturn
only
Saturn
ten
Saturn
meters
Saturn
thick
Saturn
thick
Saturn
150 000km
Saturn
150 000km
10m
Saturn
Saturn
Saturn
That means that if you scaled
Saturn’s rings down to something
that could fit in this room, it would
be thinner than the thinnest piece of
paper, thinner than the thinnest
razor blade, thinner than anything
humans could ever manufacture!
Saturn
100 times thinner than a piece
of paper!!!!!

Space