Mission to Mars

In y59 we have been learning about the distances of the planets to the sun.
This diagram shows the distance from the sun to scale.

The real distances are:
Mercury: 57,909,100km
Venus: 108,208,600km
Earth: 149,598,000km
Mars: 227,939,200
Jupiter: 778,298,400
Saturn: 1,429,400,000
Uranus: 2,870990,000
Neptune: 4,504.,000,000
Pluto: 5,913,520,000
LJ, C.J & H.W


Class nine did a display board with the solar system and we painted the nine planets and we put blobs of white paint to make stars and when the planets dried we put them on the display board. The planets are all drawn to scale. by LC and CD

Look how tiny Pluto is!