The Solar System Part 2 - Planets and Sizes
Channel: Astronomy with Mr Guerin
Date: 2021-11-04

How big is the Solar System really? Is Pluto a planet? And where does it rain diamonds?

This video will tell you everything you need to know about the planets for EdExcel's Astronomy GCSE.

Download the slideshow:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v7n69srfzFmgYxF9Vct6FKp3r_ZRqFjx


Image credits:

The Sun at 304Å, NASA/SDO (AIA), wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg

Mercury, NASA/JHUAPL, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/messenger_orbit_image20111129_1.html

Venus, NASA/JPL-Caltech, nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23791

Earth, NASA/Apollo 17 crew, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_329.html

Mars, ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, esa.gov, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/02/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS

Jupiter, NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), hubblesite.org, public domain
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/

Saturn, NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute, nasa.gov, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg

Uranus, NASA/JPL-Caltech, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uranus2.jpg

Neptune, NASA / JPL / Voyager-ISS / Justin Cowart, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_-_Voyager_2_(29347980845)_flatten_crop.jpg

Planets, WP, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planets2013.jpg

Structure of the magnetosphere, NASA/Aaron Kaase, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structure_of_the_magnetosphere_LanguageSwitch.svg

Van Allen belts, JHUAPL, NASA, recoloured by cmglee, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rendering_of_Van_Allen_radiation_belts_of_Earth_2.jpg

Phobos, NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona, nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10368

Deimos, NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona, nasa.gov, public domain
https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/20090309a.html

Astronomical unit, nagualdesign, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png

Galilean satellites, NASA/JPL/DLR, nasa.gov, public domain
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01299

Saturn hexagon, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, nasa.gov, public domain
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/pia18274

Ceres, NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA, nasa.gov, public domain
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19562

Pluto, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg

Haumea, Stephanie Hoover, wikimedia, CC0 1.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haumea_Rotation.gif

Makemake, KoloKiller1980, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MakeMake.jpg

Eris, ESO/L. Calçada and Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), eso.org, CC BY 4.0 [edited to remove background]
http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1142a/

Kuiper Belt, WilyD, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuiper_belt_plot_objects_of_outer_solar_system.png

Oort Cloud, NASA/William Crochot, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuiper_belt_-_Oort_cloud-en.svg

Heliosphere and Voyager, NASA / JPL-Caltech, nasa.gov, public domain
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17046

Heliosphere shape, NASA / JPL-Caltech, nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA22835_fig1.png