Saturn

                        Saturn

Saturn is a long, long way away from the sun and Earth. It's the sixth planet from the sun and the fourth planet away from Earth. From the Earth it can be easily visible. Saturn's average distance from the sun is 1.4 billion kilometres.  It is 58,232km in diameter which makes it the second largest planet in our Solar System.

Saturn moves like Earth but with some differences. Like Earth it orbits the sun but it takes 29 years. Saturn the day will be 10 hours and 42 minutes long. Saturn rotates faster than earth and Saturn spin anti clockwise and Earth spins clockwise.    Saturn's surface degrees is 139 Celsius. Its gravity is 10.44 meter per second. Saturn has 62 moons and 7 rings Saturn also was named after Roman mythology in 1610.

Mars

Mars

Mars is in our solar system. It is 6780 km in diameter which is half the size of Earth.  This makes it the second smallest planet in our Solar System. Mars is 227.8 million km from the sun.  It is the fourth planet from the sun. it is the last inner planet. It takes 687 days for mars to orbit the sun.

Mars looks different than other planets. On  Mars there are two moons called Phobos and Deimos. Mars has a volcano called Olympus which is 27 km in height and is 3 times taller than Mount Everest. Mars is called the red planet because the colour of mars is blood red.

Mars is made out of rock iron and dust.

Mars history goes back a long way. It is named after the roman god of war. An Italian astronomer called Galileo was the first person to see Mars with a telescope. It can be seen in the night sky without the use of a telescope. Mariner 9 got launched on to mars in may 30 1971.

We were learning to use topic sentences and describe some of the characteristics and fetchers of the different components of the solar system

Uranus

Unbelievable things about the small intestine

Crazy things about the oesophagus

Interesting facts about stomach

What dakota and I found challenging was finding heaps of facts of google and what we already new.

Your large intestine

It was easy to do this task because I know about the large inestine.