Planets

WALT: write an information report on the solar system

Success criteria: My writing will have all the structural and
language features of an information report.

                                   The solar system

There are eight planets in our solar system , Mercury ,  
Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and finally
Neptune. They all surround the Sun by going around it.

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system , mercury
has wrinkles and also is the closest planet from the Sun.
A day on Mercury takes 176 earth days.

Venus has no moons or rings and is named after a roman
goddess. Venus and Earth are nearly
the same size , No one can land on venus because it is the
hottest planet in the solar system.

Earth is the planet we live on and  is the only planet in
our solar system not to be named aftera Greek or Roman
deity. The Earth is thought to have been formed about
4.6 billion years ago by collisions in the giant disc-shaped
cloud of material that also formed the Sun

A sidereal day on Mars is the length of time that it takes
the planet to rotate once on its axis
so that stars appear in the same place in the night sky.
Mars also has the highest mountain in the solar system.

Jupiter is covered in clouds Jupiter is the 5th planet from
the sun Jupiter’s giant red spot is a raging storm Jupiter
is the biggest planet in the solar system It is a giant spinning
storm , resembling a hurricane the storm is about 3 1/2
times the diameter of Earth Jupiter is a gas planet

Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun and is the second
largest planet also has best known for its fabulous ring
system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer
Galileo Galilei.
Saturn has moon and rings Jupiter outer rings are extremely
Jupiter’s rings are made out of dust and icy chunks. Saturn
has the most extensive rings in the solar system and Saturn has
150 moons and smaller moonlets.

Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun , People have named
uranus the icy planet. Uranus has 15 moon and is the 3rd
largest planet in the solar system. Uranus thin rings around
it like all the other planets The only probe to visit also it
spins the sides.

Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun making it the most
distant in the solar system. This gas giant planet may have
formed much closer to the Sun in early solar system history
before migrating to its present position.