https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh Using Nasa's website (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/overview/), make 3 posts as shown under Mr. Harrison's examples by inserting a photo for each and a written explanation. You need to create 3 posts and share something that you have learned, found interesting and then post a question that you have regarding our Solar System. en-us 2020-03-25 13:58:58 UTC 2026-01-14 18:59:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f468-1f680.png sharrison49 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/474596538 It takes the planet Neptune 164.81 Earth years to go around the Sun once. Additionally, Neptune is about four times wider than Earth. If Earth were a large apple, Neptune would be the size of a basketball.]]> 2020-03-25 14:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/474596538 sharrison49 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/474600116 433 Eros is an Asteroid that orbits within the Inner Asteroid Belt and it is the first asteroid where we have landed a Spacecraft onto it's surface. ]]> 2020-03-25 14:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/474600116 sharrison49 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/474600955 Mercury revolves around the Sun in only 88 Earth days; however,  it takes 59 Earth days to make one rotation ("one Mercury day").... Why is this???]]> 2020-03-25 14:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/474600955 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/541784208 Jupiter is the king of the gods in Roman mythology. He was the god of the sky and thunder. He is also called Zeus in Greek Mythology.]]> 2020-04-30 12:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/541784208 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/541793309 Halley's Comet was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986 and was met in space by an international fleet of spacecraft. It will return in 2061 on its regular 76-year journey around the Sun.]]> 2020-04-30 12:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/541793309 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/541794864 Ceres makes up almost a third of the asteroid belt's total mass, but it is still far smaller than Earth's Moon.]]> 2020-04-30 12:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/541794864 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542357711 2020-04-30 15:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542357711 610769 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542414300 Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine times that of Earth. It only has one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive. Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings—made of chunks of ice and rock—but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's. 

]]> 2020-04-30 16:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542414300 610769 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542426786 Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 days, the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the gods.]]> 2020-04-30 16:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542426786 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542761078 Saturn is the planet with the most moons. They have 82 moons. 53 of those moons are confirmed and have names. And 29 moons are waiting to be confirmed and named.]]> 2020-04-30 18:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542761078 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542831199 the kuiper belt is  is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. It has been shaped  by a giant planet. its more like a thick disk like a doughnut rather than it being thin.]]> 2020-04-30 18:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542831199 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542859717 Some researchers have found some mathematical evidence  suggesting that there may be a plant X deep in the solar system.  They say its about the size of neputune and orbits our Sun in a highly elongated orbit far beyond Pluto. ]]> 2020-04-30 19:06:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/542859717 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/543650115 Saturn is the least dense planet]]> 2020-05-01 08:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/543650115 2360324 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544371738 Mars is known as the red planet and is the fourth planet from the sun. Mars is very dusty, cold, and has a very thin atmoshpere. Mars is a rocky planet. Its solid surface has been altered by volcanic impacts, winds, crustal movement and chemical reactions. Mars has a thin atmosphere made up mostly of carbon dioxide (CO2), argon (Ar), nitrogen (N2), and a small amount of oxygen and water vapor. Mars has a total of 2 moons named Phobos and Deimos. The length of one year on the red planet is considered 687 Earth days and one day takes a little over 24 hours. The planet is ringless and is a very small planet. If the Sun were as tall as a typical front door, Earth would be the size of a dime, and Mars would be about as big as an aspirin tablet. So overall Mars is a very explored planet and to this day we still continue to see if human life occur on the planet. ]]> 2020-05-01 16:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544371738 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544409868 Pluto is the larges dwarf planet and it has five moons. Pluto was renamed a planet in 2006 and was founded in February 18th, 1930 by the Lowell Observatory and Pluto is also one third water.]]> 2020-05-01 16:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544409868 2360324 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544418497 Ceres is a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. Ceres is a very small next to other planets and objects in the solar system. Ceres’ radius is just 296 miles (476 km). If Earth were the size of a nickel, Ceres would be about as big as a poppy seed. It also takes a fair amount of time to make one trip around the the sun. It actually  takes 1,682 Earth days, or 4.6 Earth years, to make one trip around the sun and Ceres completes one rotation around its axis every 9 hours. Yes it is considered a very small, but it can also be called larger then it's neighbors. Ceres is so much bigger and so different from its neighbors that scientists classified it as a dwarf planet in 2006. Along with that the planet is also ringless and moonless. There is also no evidence of an atmosphere on Ceres, only sporadic water vapor which is possibly from ice ejected by small impacts. As of now Scientists would like to search for possible signs of life on Ceres. It has something many other planets don't water. This could be a very good thing for us which I hope leads to new things. ]]> 2020-05-01 16:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544418497 2360324 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544441191 Callisto is Jupiters second largest moon and is known as the third largest moon in our solar system. Callisto is 2.6 times smaller than Earth, and it’s about 289 times smaller than our Sun. Callisto orbits about 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) from Jupiter, and Jupiter orbits about 484 million miles (778 million kilometers) from our Sun. Callisto has a very long day compared to what we are used too. A day on Callisto is about 17 Earth days, this is also the amount of time it takes to orbit around Jupiter once. Callisto also has an atmoshpere. NASA's Galileo spacecraft detected a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere, or exosphere, on Callisto. Later research determined Callisto has hydrogen and oxygen in its atmosphere. It also has Carbon dioxide on the surface. There are no rings, but scientists have discovered oceans. There is evidence of a subsurface ocean on Callisto, putting Callisto on the list of possible places where life could exist beyond Earth. I found this very intresting and would like to learn more about this moon. ]]> 2020-05-01 16:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544441191 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544514081 Our Sun is one of at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy about 100,000 light-years across.]]> 2020-05-01 17:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544514081 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544515416 The Oort Cloud is the most distant region of our solar system. Even the nearest objects in the Oort Cloud are thought to be many times farther from the Sun than the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt.]]> 2020-05-01 17:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544515416 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544518773 Our solar system is the only place we know of that harbors life, but the farther we explore the more we find potential for life in other places. Both Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus have global saltwater oceans under thick, icy shells.]]> 2020-05-01 17:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544518773 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544569887 When astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, he first thought is was a comet. We could not live on Uranus even if we tried. ]]> 2020-05-01 17:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544569887 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544584558 The great red spot of Jupiter is a storm that has been going on for over 300 years. The pearls are also storms going on. ]]> 2020-05-01 17:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544584558 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544593921 People are wondering if we are going to eventually going to live on Mars. If gravity on Mars is not the same or similar as the gravity on Earth and we eventually decide to go live on Mars, how will that affect us and how we do things?]]> 2020-05-01 17:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544593921 2363941 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544724914 Wild 2 (pronounced "vilt") is a fresh periodic comet. It has made only a few close passes by the Sun, which is why it was selected for the first comet sample return mission—Stardust.]]> 2020-05-01 19:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544724914 2363941 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544729308 Pluto is about 1,400 miles (2,380 km) wide. That's about half the width of the United States, or 2/3 the width of Earth's moon.]]> 2020-05-01 19:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544729308 2363941 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544731739 Saturn takes about 10.7 hours (no one knows precisely) to rotate on its axis once—a Saturn “day”—and 29 Earth years to orbit the sun.]]> 2020-05-01 19:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544731739 226200 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544759013 Mars used to be wetter denser and warmer. Mars also used to have a thicker atmosphere.]]> 2020-05-01 19:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544759013 226200 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544798344 A full year on Saturn is 10,759 Earth Days.]]> 2020-05-01 20:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544798344 226200 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544802263 Why does Uranus rotate at a 90 degree angle?]]> 2020-05-01 20:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544802263 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544825047 I found out Jupiter is more than twice as massive than the other planets of the solar system combined.]]> 2020-05-01 20:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544825047 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544840541 the interesting thing I found out is the rings on Saturn sometimes disappear. ]]> 2020-05-01 20:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544840541 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544847227 Where do most comets arrive from?]]> 2020-05-01 20:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544847227 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544848390 Both the sun and the moon are living things]]> 2020-05-01 20:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544848390 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544851591 Venus is one of the brightest things in the sky]]> 2020-05-01 20:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/544851591 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545119441 The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object that certain groups believed would take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event usually refer to this object as Nibiru or Planet X.]]> 2020-05-02 03:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545119441 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545121982 people wonder if stars can turn in to planets because they are big balls of gas ]]> 2020-05-02 03:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545121982 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545357732  Planet Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical calculations, rather than by telescope]]> 2020-05-02 10:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545357732 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545358982 Venus is known as the sister planet to earth]]> 2020-05-02 10:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545358982 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545361646 I have no questions]]> 2020-05-02 10:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/545361646 238007 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/556408594 Mars is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. It is the 4th planet from the Sun. Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to,roam the alien landscape.With a radius of 2,106 miles (3,390 kilometers), Mars is about half the size of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry.]]> 2020-05-07 04:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/556408594 238007 https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/556413401 Mars is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. It is the 4th planet from the Sun. Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to roam the alien landscape.With a radius of 2,106 miles (3,390 kilometers), Mars is about half the size of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry.]]> 2020-05-07 04:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomfield/51dh55w9sfnh/wish/556413401