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A Tour Through the Solar System
York University Presents
In collaboration with the Astronomical
Observatory
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The Sun Centre of it All
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The Sun
5777 K 25 Earth days
Surface Temperature One day
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The Sun
S o l a r E c l i p s e
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Mercury
Messenger 2011 0 2 Mercury years 88 Earth
days
Mission Arrival Moons Solar day One Year
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Mercury
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Venus
Venus Express Now! 0 1/2 Venus year 225
Earth days
Mission Arrival Moons Solar day One
Year
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Venus
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Venus
From Earth, Venus appears to have phases like the
moon.
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Venus
(The Transit)
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Earth The Planet of Life
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Earth
Many! 1 24 hours 365.24 Earth days
Missions Moons Solar day One Year
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Earth
And Moon System
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Earth
(Meteors and Meteorites)
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Mars
Missions Arrival Moons One day One Year
Every 2 years Now! 2 24.62 hours 687 Earth
days
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Mars
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Mars
(Explorations)
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Phoenix Lander Parachute imaged by the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter
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Ice a few cm under Mars surface exposed by the
Phoenix landers jets?
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Mars
(Moons)
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Asteroids
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Jupiter
Mission Arrival Moons One day One Year
Juno 2016 63 (for now) 10 hours 12 Earth
years
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Jupiter
(Moons)
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Jupiter
(Moons) - Io
(Moons) - Callisto
(Moons) - Europa
(Moons) - Ganymede
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Saturn
Mission Arrival Moons One day One Year
Cassini Now! 60 (for now) 10 2/3 hours 30
Earth years
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Saturn
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Saturn
(Moons)
Titan the only moon with an atmosphere
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Image of Titans surface taken from the Huygens
lander in 2005.Those arent rocks theyre ice
blocks!
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Titan is an ice desert moon its very cold, but
too warm for liquid methane. Its surface has dry
methane streambeds except at the poles, where
there are methane lakes
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Uranus
Voyager 2 1986 27 (for now) 17 hours 84
Earth years
Mission Arrival Moons One day One Year
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Neptune
Neptune Orbiter Triton lander/probe? 2026? 13
(for now) 16 hours 165 Earth years
Mission Date Moons One day One Year
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Neptune
Rings of Neptune
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Neptune
(Moons)
(Moons - Triton)
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Pluto
New Horizons 2015 3 6.4 Earth days 248
Earth years
Mission Arrival Moons One day One Year
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Pluto
Pluto
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Pluto
(moon Charon)
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Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Eris and its moon
Dysnomia
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Kuiper Belt Objects Edge of the System
(Sedna)
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Kuiper Belt Objects Edge of the System
(Comets)
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The Solar System
(As a Whole)
Sun goal line diameter 2/3
19 yards
60 yards
38 yards
79 yards
-Mercury 0.8 yards
-Asteroid Belt 4-8 yards
-Venus 1.4 yards
-Voyager 1 is well out of the parking lot
-Jupiter 10.5 yards diameter 1/16
-Earth 2 yards
These facts and figures Courtesy of
solarsystem.nasa.gov/
-Mars 3 yards