INTRO

Venus is a strange planet to say the least. Next to TERRA-1, it could have been at one point been it's twin. Now, it's a rocky dusty wasteland in which nothing can survive.

DISTANCE

Venus is 108.31 million km from Sol-1. As second closest it gets a lot of Sun you could say. ^{heh heh}

Venus is slightly smaller then terra but realivly the same size. In terms of comparision for sake of aurgument they are pretty much the same size. Heres is a side by side comparision.

Apolgies for the blurrynes, I had to blow the image up because it was smaller than the others. But as a side by side comparision you could see that perhaps at one point (trillions of years ago) Venus might have been in a goldy-locks zone (Not-too hot not-too cold as the humans call it) and life may have formed then died out.

MOONS

Venus also has no moons like mercury (possibly because of the gravity of the sun). It has no rings, no sattiliets. Nothing. Dead space. If venus could harbor life or water there would be nethier tide nor waves in it's oceans (if any).

DAY AND YEAR LENGTH

It takes 255 terra days to orbit sol-1 and it's day length is 116 terra days 18 hours and 0 minutes.

AVERAGE TEMPERTURE

The tempture of the planet is on average 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius) year round. It has a thin atmosphere trapping greenhouse gasses heating up the planet further (not unlike earth in the future if we keep with the rate of gass emmisions). So even the cold side is hot.

MAKEUP

Beneath the thick atmosphere unlike mercury, the planet is smooth and un-scarred. It is made of hard pressed rock. Although Venus is similar to the Earth in size and mass, its surface and atmosphere differ from our planet. Resurfacing in the planet's past may have created a solid crust, and the hidden core remains a challenge to study. Shrouded by a thick atmosphere, the surface of Venus remained hidden until radar equipment arrived to probe the closest planet. Rocky ground lies beneath the layers of clouds. But unlike Mars and Mercury, which are both scarred by craters, Venus has a relatively smooth surface. Early in the history of the solar system, while planets such as Venus were forming, the cloud of dust and rock orbiting the sun was a chaotic place. Giant rocks pounded the surface of the newly created planets and their moons. So how did Venus escape unscathed? While Venus could have been extraordinarily lucky and missed any significant damage in the turbulent young system, it is more likely that the surface of Venus has been completely redone by volcanic activity, smoothing over the scars of its early life. The planet has significantly more volcanoes than Earth, several of them the size of Earth's largest system, the Big Island of Hawaii!!!

CAN LIFE EXIST?

Out of all the planets venus is the most likely to be one that sustained life, however it is overlooked in the pursuit of a candaite for a new home, due to it's tempture, planet makeup, density of volcanoes and the gravity. The only thing this planet could offer in the way of life is archeolgy, because life may have existed, but it surely won't exist again.

MARS

INTRO

The red planet has a lot to offer. Good mining, stratigic if humans ever plan on colonizing, really a bit of everything. Fun fact: what gives mars it's red look is all the iron on the surface rusting and forming a red color as it breaks down. Really it's quite rocky and plain, but full of resources.

DISTANCE

Mars orbits Sol-1. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun at an average distance of about 228 million km (142 million miles). Behind earth it can ocasionally be seen in the night sky. Apart from this not much can be said about it's distance realtive to Sol-1.

COMPARISION

Compared to terra it is smaller. (see picture) A good portion of mars's surface area could fit in asia.

MOONS

With two moons, Phobos and Deimos, nothing more than barren astriods. Deimos takes 30 hours to orbit mars and has a gravitantional feild of 0.002 m/s². It's distance to earth is 77.79 million km, and it's surface area is 495.1548 km². Temperture wise is is about 233 degrees Kelvin. Phobos is the closest natural satellite and has a radius of 11.267 km, Gravity of 0.0057 m/s² a surface area of 1548.3 km². Nothin much about these moons stand out exepct as a possible mars base deployment staition.

YEAR AND DAY LENGTH

It take 685 terra days to orbit Sol-1, and the length of a marshian day is 1d 0h 37m.

AVERAGE TEMPERTURE

They range from -82 degrees F in the summer to -220 degrees F in the winter. Chilly place. Burrr...!

PLANET MAKEUP

Mars is the "Red Planet" for a very good reason: its surface is made of a thick layer of oxidized iron dust and rocks of the same color. Maybe another name for Mars could be "Rusty." But the ruddy surface does not tell the whole story of the composition of this world. The dust that covers the surface of Mars is fine like talcum powder. Beneath the layer of dust, the Martian crust consists mostly of volcanic basalt rock. The soil of Mars also holds nutrients such as sodium, potassium, chloride and magnesium. The crust is between 6 and 30 miles (10 and 50 kilometers) thick, according to NASA (the human's version of GELGA). Mars' crust is thought to be one piece. Unlike Terra, the red planet has no tectonic plates that ride on the mantle to reshape the terrain. Since there is little to no movement in the crust, molten rock flowed to the surface at the same point for successive eruptions, building up into the huge volcanoes that dot the Martian surface.

LIFE

Mars is probally our best bet for finding microscopic lifeforms. Any life that may have formed would have to cope with the radiation from the sun and the core (possibly by living in unerground lakes) Possible fossils have already been found and are being examianed for life.

JUIPITER

INTRO

Juipiter is a gass gaint wich means although it is a planet, and has a gravitantional field, it doesn''t have a solid core, it's all gass. It contains gasses useful for terra-forming which means when humans inevitably decided to terraform mars, they would probaly get the resoures from Juipiter.

DISTANCE

Juipiter is 778 million kilometers or 5.2 AU (If you are a sceince nerd.)

SIZE

As largest planet in the solar system (rightfully deserving that title,) it is much, much, MUCH bigger than the earth. See image for comparision. This truly puts to scale just how MASSIVEM juipiter really is.

MOONS

As there ar 72!! Moons of juipiter I cannot provide an indepth explaination nor a list of them due to the high amount of them. However most of them were attracted by the gravity from the huge planet from the astroid belt in the early creation of the universe. Many are rocky, but some are intresting such as IO which house preasiouces metels.

DAY AND YEAR LENGTH

It takes twelve earth years to orbit Sol-1 (Hard to even imagine something as large as jupiter ever moving. It take 0d 9h 56m to complete a full rotation on it's axis.

TEMPERTURE

With an average temperature of minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 145 degrees Celsius), Jupiter is frigid even in its warmest weather. Unlike Earth, whose temperature varies as one moves closer to or farther from the equator, Jupiter's temperature depends more on height above the surface.

PLANET MAKEUP

Jupiter is made up predominantly of hydrogen. The simple, basic gas, a prime ingredient on the sun, accounts for 90 percent of the atmosphere. Nearly 10 percent is composed of helium. A very small fraction of the atmosphere is made up of compounds such as ammonia, sulfur, methane, and water vapor.

LIFE

It would be cool to think of flying lifeforms darting in and out of the clouds, never touching solid ground, and giving birth and dying in the clouds of hydrogyn and other noble gasses. But that mostly lies in the realm of sci-fi, but shapes and forms have been seen darting in and out of the stratosphere by probes, most likely just peices of rock whipped around the planet by it's forceful wind speeds. But who knows perhaps there is life in the clouds of the biggest planet...

SATURN

INTRO

The ringed planet. Mysterious. Silent and still. A noble gass gaint of a long lost age of the universe. This planet has seen more than the earth. And will out live it too.

DISTANCE

Saturn is the sixth planet from Sol-1 and orbits at a distance of about 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers). As sixth it is an icy world without much sun light.

As a gass gaint saturn is much bigger than TERRA-1. The earth is tiny compared to the massive volume of the planet.

MOONS

Saturn has 82 moons, nothing to scoff at. Fifty-three moons are confirmed and named and another 29 moons need people to actually check if they exist or not and then name them. Saturn's moons range in size from larger than the planet Mercury — the giant moon Titan — to as small as a human recreation games arena. Saturn also has a huge gravitational feild (like juipiter) and likely attracted debris and astroids from the kuiper belt.

DAY AND YEAR LENGTH

It takes saturn 29 terra years to orbit Sol-1. and each day is 10 hours and 42 minutes, a bit under half a earth day. It's seasons must be long. Imagine living you whole life only to see 12 seasons!

AVERAGE TEMPERTURE

With an average temperature of minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius) Saturn is cold and icy, with frozen gasses in it's atmosphere. It hardly ever gets any sun and because of it's orbit speed it's usualy is winter or summer of fall or spring for years at a time. If you're planning a family get away to Saturn you better pack something warm (and solid ground)

PLANET MAKEUP

The gas giant Saturn contains many of the same components as most basic suns. Although it is this solar system's second largest planet, it lacks the necessary mass to undergo the fusion needed to power a star. Still, its gaseous composition — and the stunningly beautiful rings that surround it — make it one of the more interesting object in this solar system. Saturn is predominantly composed of hydrogen and helium, the two basic gases of the universe. The planet also bears traces of ices containing ammonia, methane, and water. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets, gas giants such as Saturn lack the layered crust-mantle-core structure, because they formed differently from their rocky siblings.

LIFE

Saturn's environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to. While planet Saturn is an unlikely place for living things to take hold, the same is not true of some of its many moons. Satellites like Enceladus and Titan, home to internal oceans, could possibly support life.

URANUS

THE ULTIMATE HUMAN TROLL

It's nice to know this primitive humans have a sense of humor. Some one must been hav'in fun they named this one. As with humans they had to make this big long explaination for why they named the planet after the rectum hole, regardless uranus (or as people now call it ur-A-nus) is a facisnating planet sitting on the outskirts of this slar system. An icy cold world ful of gasses and craters, it has a long history full of turmoil and strife.

DISTANCE

As seventh planet from Sol-1 it doesn't get a lot of sun light, like, ever. It sits about 1.8 billion miles or 2.9 billion kilometers frm Sol-1.

COMPARISION

Compared to the rocky earth uranus is like a smooth pool ball, and we have it's gasses to thank for that. It's large compared to the earth and and at least 4 copys of TERRA-1 could fit in Uranus (a dad dan chahh). See picture below for refrence

MOONS

Uranus has 27 moons. Uranus is being quite greedy if you ask me. Here TERRA-1 with only one moon, mercury with none, Venus again with none, it just seems these gas gaints get a lot of antural sattiliets. However none of uranus moons come close to 1/20th of the earths moons mass. There are three rings of moons. Ones who orbit and are inside of Uranus's rings (sometimes), the ones that don't touch the rings, and irregular bodys that were trapped in the formation of the planet. Moon wise Uranus doesn't have as much as juipiter but more than TERRA-1.

DAY AND YEAR LENGTH

It take Uranus a whopping total of 84 TERRA-1 years to orbit the sun, while spinning a full rotation on it's axis every seventeen hours and fourteen minutes. Fun right?

TEMPERTURE

Uranus's tempeture is minus 320°F (-195°C) on average all 84 years round. Literallyany water that were to come in contact with the atmosphere would freeze imedditaly. While it's extoiror is cold, Uranus's core radiates a strong heat about 4982 degrees celsius which really compared to all the other planets core's isn't that hot at all. So as with the solar system if you want to live in a floating house in the gasses of Uranus (a dan da cahhh) you would need to find the goldilocks zone between the warm and the cold.

PLANET MAKEUP

Uranus is one of that two "Ice gaints" of the solar system. WHile juipiter and saturn are made up of gasses, Uranus is made up of predominantly frozen water and other gasses. It's pale blue look is because of the high compound of frozen gasses in it's atmosphere. Itlacks solid groun you may find frozen lakes or rocks near the center, whipping around the planet at it's high wind speeds. Uranus is one of the least dense planets mostly due to it's icy and non-heavy gasses.

LIFE

There's no process inside Uranus, like volcanism on TERRA-1, that would give life inside the planet a form of energy. Life on Uranus would have to be vastly different from anything we have seen in the universe to be able to survive.

NEPTUNE

A lonely planet on the outskirts of the solar system.

INTRO

Neptune is facisnating because it is another one of the "ice gaints". Neptune is the final planet from the sun (Sorry pluto humans don't like you) and is quite cold because of the little (if any) heat and light from the sun.

DISTANCE

From an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), Neptune is last in order of the planets. To give you perspective tavling the circumfrence of earth ten times! is 400750 km. Not even close to the Monumental distance from the sun that Neptune sits at.

COMPARISION

According to N.A.S.A Neptune is nearly four times as large as the earth. See diagram.

MOONS

Neptune has 14 named moons. Most are just icy rocks and astroids floating around the planet. Neptune also has icy rings where icy resides inside the cores of the astroids and dust.

TEMPERTURE

The average temperature on Neptune is about minus 200 degrees Celsius (minus 392 degrees Fahrenheit). Neptune, the farthest known planet of our solar system, it makes sense it would be one of the coldest planets. It does have warm south pole. It's warmer about 10 degress celsius because it's pointed towards the sun. While earth's antarctic summer last a few months, Neptune's lasts 40 years, So if you are going to live on Neptune the south poles the place to be in terms of temparture

PLANET MAKEUP

Neptune's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium with just a little bit of methane. Neptune's neighbor Uranus is a blue-green color due to such atmospheric methane, but Neptune is a more vivid, brighter blue, so there must be an unknown component that causes the more intense color. It is whipped with supersonic speeds that regulary break the sound barreir creating the whipped look from space. Without solid ground, the core is only slightly hotter than the rest of the planet. All in all neptune isn't the most hospital planet ever.

LIFE

Don't even think about it. If life were to form without a ready source of energy, the suns light, the tempeture, the lack of solid ground it would surely be very diffrent than anything we have ever seen.

OUTWORD

All in all this solar system seems to be very unique and could possible house our species if we ever were to encounter an exinction event. It is a wild, cold, burning, crazy solar system with supersonic winds, horrible 1000 year storms, evil life forms and chickens. It would be pretty fun place to live because every time these humans think they know everythin about their solar system something ends up proving them wrong.