martes, 9 de mayo de 2017

Astronomy 303. The Outer Planets

 Seguimos con los planetas y si en la lección hablábamos de los planetas mas cercanos al sol, o de los planetas pequeños... ahora vamos a ver los planetas gigantes. Después los alumnos y alumnas de 3º terminarán su diorama sobre los planetas y de deberes harán un proyecto para hablar sobre un planeta que ellos hayan escogido 

 
 


Welcome Welcome again to Astronomy 303. We are going to continue talking about the different planets that for our solar system...If the last lesson we talked about the inner planets, in this lesson we will concentrate in the outer planets, also called the Giant Planets or the Gas Planets


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Astronomy 303. The Outer Planets 

Continuing our journey away from the Sun, we turn to the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They are all made out of gas. All of the outer planets have rings, although only Saturn’s are bright enough to be seen through a small telescope

When you look at Jupiter, what you see are clouds of ammonia crystals alternating between darker and lighter colours. The planet is made up of mostly hydrogen with a smaller amount of helium and some trace gases. The temperature outside of the planet is about -160°C, but it increases as one descends through the gases, becoming hotter than the surface of the Sun near the core. The planet emits a lot of radiation, which makes it incredibly dangerous to get anywhere near it. Jupiter has 79 known moons

Saturn, too, is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium. Galileo was the first one to see the rings, although his telescope wasn’t powerful enough for him to see that they were actually separated from the body of the planet, so he called them ears. The temperature just above the atmosphere is about -185°C. Saturn has 82 known moons

Uranus and Neptune cannot be seen with the naked eye; you need at least a pair of binoculars, but more likely a telescope, to see them. Even with a telescope, they don’t show much in the way of surface features. Uranus has 27 known moons, whereas Neptune has 14; Like Jupiter and Saturn, these two planets are both primarily made up of hydrogen and helium, but they also have a fair amount of ice, namely water, ammonia, and methane ice. Because of this, they’re sometimes called the “ice giants.”


 
                     jupiter                                                           saturn                                                uranus and neptune

                                                     Text and photos from Hogwartsishere.com

Now let´s finish your dioramas and let´s talk about the assignments for next week. 

 




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