2. A Journey to the Stars Liz Puchnarewicz Mullard Space Science Laboratory www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk

3. Blast off from the Earth Kourou 109876543210

4. First stop – the Sun Enormous hot ball of gas. 109 times bigger than the Earth. Only going to burn for another billion years! This is an X-ray of the Sun!!

5. Follow the Sun in the Sky

6. East West South

7. So what does this mean? The Earth spins around once a day…

8. Now – on to Mercury 1 day = 59 Earth days Days very hot – Nights very cold!!!

9. And the next planet is… Venus!!! 1 day = 243 Earth days 1 year = 225 Earth days!!!

10. Wave to your Mum – the Earth is next

11. Did you know that the Earth and Moon are a double planet?

12. So how does the Moon change shape?

13. It’s Mars! Look out for little green men!!! 1 day = 1 Earth day 1 year = 687 Earth days

14. Jupiter The nearest and biggest of the giants. Great Red Spot

15. Which is the flattest planet? …Saturn And how do we know? …Because someone ‘saturn’ it!!!

16. This is Uranus It takes 84 years to go around the Sun

17. The next giant is Neptune (usually) Great Dark Spot Scooter

18. And last of all - Pluto … and his friend, Charon. It’s another double planet!

19. Back to Earth

20. Journey over!