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An animation shows Tim peering into a telescope pointed at the night sky. TIM: Pluto has an odd elliptical orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. No one knows exactly why that is, but some scientists think the planet was knocked around during its early days by some other passing body. One shows a plain with a hot sun blazing down on it. A curved, orange, vertical line is added along the boundary between the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc and is labeled termination shock.. The spiraling pattern transfixes Tim and he falls asleep as Moby looks at the night skies through the binoculars. You probably know it by its amazing set of rings! Another drawing shows a cluster of rocks in front of a planet at the bottom. (, Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. TIM: The Oort cloud is a whole light-year away from the sun it takes an entire year for a ray of sunshine to reach it! The camera zooms in on Tim and Moby. TIM: Bubut their hypothesis was based on faulty calculations of Neptunes mass! Tim goes on to explain about space beyond Neptune, as well as some space probes and planets. Another view shows clumps spinning around a large central clump. Theres a stormy Great Dark Spot on Neptune thats kind of like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. TIM: Saturn has more than 50 moons orbiting it. Your friend, Charlotte. The animation focuses on the swirling red storm on Jupiter's surface. An animation shows the gas and clumps of matter swirling around a bright sphere. It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. 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Learn how you can get access to hundreds of topic-specific coding projects. An image is divided vertically into three equal parts and shows three round bodies of different colors decreasing in size from left to right. So, get ready to blast off with Tim and Moby as they explore our galactic neighborhood! Stars and other small colored objects are shown. They formed the gas giants, like Jupiter. The other shows a frigid landscape. TIM: Mars is called the "red planet" because of its reddish surface. An animation shows the sun, then pulls back to show the eight planets orbiting around it. TIM: Uranus is a gassy planet with small gray rings and more than 25 moons. TIM: They launched in the early 1970s and are also thought to be nearing the heliopause. Tim addresses Moby. The side closest to the sun glows red, while the other side is covered in ice. In the animation, Mars moves out of view. This topic is not available for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. (, What is something new you hope to learn about the solar system? The one on the left shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft and the one on the right shows the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Atoms began fusing together in a nuclear reaction that continues to this day. (Compare/contrast; Make inferences), Timecode 4:00: Why might the outer planets have many more moons orbiting them than the inner planets? An image of an astronaut walking on the moon is displayed on the screen, and then an image of a spacecraft against a night sky is added to the right of it. Use strategy to up your points! TIM: Other large Kuiper bodies include Orcus, Quaoar, and Varuna. TIM: Earth is one of these terrestrial planets. Its atmosphere is filled with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The last planet shown and its orbit are labeled Planet Upper X. In the animation, the view changes to show Charon, Hydra, and Nix in orbit above Pluto. What's your favorite thing out there? Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. Charon partially overlapping it on the left, and two small, gray moons labeled Hydra and Nix above and below it. The animation zooms in on Jupiter. Tim is lying on the ground in a sleeping bag partially sticking out of a camping tent. It is depicted with several large concentric rings. "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. (Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect). It likely had oceans and rivers, and its atmosphere contained more heat-trapping gases. (Make connections), How does its distance from the Sun affect each planet in the Solar System? An animation shows the planets of the solar system. Moby thinks and then extends his arms. 19992023 BrainPOP. The animation shows a drawing of a circle of rocks around the sun and planets at the top. Asteroids are pieces of rock centimeters to hundreds of kilometers wide. It was named after the Roman god of the sea maybe because it's so blue! TIM: Scientists think that comets come from far regions of the solar system, called the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Others include Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, and an object named Eris, which is slightly larger than Pluto. ","alignment_guid":"98C726CA-2F4E-11E9-81FE-F2032EB223BB","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":"","url":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","icon":"\/assets\/images\/creativecoding_svg_icon.svg","coding_types":{"museum":{"type":"museum","instructions":"Code a digital museum to show what you know about the solar system. TIM: First of all, anything that orbits the sun farther than the planet Neptune is called a trans- Neptunian object. TIM: Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. TIM: It also has a permanent storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, which is way bigger than the entire Earth! The four inner planets are tiny in comparison to the four outer planets. "]},"pop_a_joke":{"joke_text_1":"What did Earth say to Saturn? The animation shows Moby take a cloth and clean the lens on Tim's telescope. An animation shows the deep blue planet surrounded by rings. One planet is dark purple with a white ring around its center, and the other is small and brown. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, can you tell me all about the solar system? Others include Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, and an object named Eris, which is slightly larger than Pluto. "},"meme":{"type":"meme","instructions":"Create a meme about the solar system. An animation shows Earth rotating, with the moon orbiting around it. The animation zooms out to show a large proportion of the rocks form a circle around the sun and lie between Mars and Jupiter. Two inserts appear. Our solar system is also home to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and the distant objects of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. Scientists think this stuff has stayed pretty unchanged from the time the solar system first formed about four and a half billion years ago! It's tilted so that it looks like its lying on its side! Already have an individual account with Creative Coding? It looks kind of like our moon, and it has one very hot side and one very cold side. Venus is sometimes called Earths sister planet, because of the similar size. The animation shows Tim and Moby standing next to each other. An animation shows Pluto surrounded by four small moons and one larger one. BrainPOP Jr. Games. TIM: The dwarf planet Pluto, known as a main planet until it was demoted in 2006, is a cold, rocky body even smaller than our own moon. TIM: It's huge, with a mass 318 times that of Earth! In the animation, Venus moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Earth. Two images are displayed next to each other against a night sky. The spherical object is labeled Oort cloud.. The added planet has a question mark placed in the middle of it. TIM: Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Each is depicted with rings of different sizes. Pluto has an odd orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. It became the sun, and its energy pushed away any nearby gas. TIM: There are more than 1,000 trans-Neptunian objects in the solar system and counting! That's why one side gets so hot, and the other gets so cold. The text trans-Neptunian objects is still written above the arrow. This topic is not available for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade.Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. Our solar system is also home to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and the distant objects of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. An animation shows the dry, rocky surface of Mars transition to a lake. It was named after the Roman god of the sea, probably because its so blue. TIM: Scientists say scattered disc objects are well, Kuiper belt rejects! In the animation, Uranus moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Neptune. TIM: The four inner planets are much smaller than the four outer ones. They're clumps of ice and dust that each have a unique orbit around the sun. (Set goals). At the end of the episode, Moby says he knows what it's like out there and after questioned by Tim, hypnotizes him. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. But for us, it's the most important one around. Another yellow arrow labeled interstellar wind is added to extend from the Oort cloud to the line labeled heliopause.. An image of a planet labeled Pluto is shown against a night sky. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. For all eleven planets, each ellipse lies entirely within the surrounding ellipse. TIM: But there are tons of other objects that keep popping up in the far regions of the solar system! Its got perfect conditions for plants and animals: not too hot, not too cold. An animation shows the four outer planets, then zooms in to show Jupiter encircled by a narrow ring. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Two inserts appear and show the rocky surface. TIM: Man, I wonder what it must feel like to be so far from home An animation shows Tim and Moby at their camp site in the middle of dark woods. TIM: The dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus traps so much heat, the surface can get up to over 450 degrees Celsius. Far out from the sun is Earth, where we live. TIM: Plutos moons, Charon, Hydra, and Nix, are also Kuiper belt objects. TIM: Well well, how do you know? The animation shows five planets traveling along the circles. An image is shown of a gray planet, labeled Eris, against a night sky. Like Uranus, it's sometimes called an ice giant because it's so cold. TIM: It also has at least three moons: Charon, Hydra, and Nix! Some astronomers think a huge collision in its early days might have done that. Mars has two moons and the tallest mountain in the solar system called Olympus Mons. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. TIM: Well, planetary scientists arent sure whether Sedna is one of the farthest scattered disc objects or part of another region: the Oort cloud. TIM: But Pluto wasnt massive enough to fit the estimates of Planet Xs probable size. In the animation, the view of the asteroids moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Pluto. It was considered the main planet until 2006 when it got demoted to a dwarf planet. ","Is Pluto a planet? An animation shows Jupiter rotating in space and the sun in the background. Tim and Moby discuss the pros and cons. The animation zooms in to Venus' surface. The Oort Cloud is even further from the sun. Another image shows a lake surrounded by hills of trees. It's way bigger than our entire planet, and it's been raging for centuries. The ellipse representing Plutos orbit is long and narrow and can be seen to intersect the ellipse representing Neptune's orbit. TIM: But scientists are pretty sure that both of the Voyager probes have passed the termination shock, and are closing in on the heliopause. 19992023 BrainPOP. TIM: Well, the solar system is our home in the galaxy. Two images are displayed next to each other against a night sky. TIM: You you know what its like out there? 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An animation shows Mercury rotating. An animation shows the spacecraft moving away from the camera into outer space until it eventually disappears. There are four rocky, inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsand four gas giants farther outJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Tim: Eris is actually the largest dwarf planet in the solar system its just a bit bigger than Pluto! You probably know Saturn by its amazing set of rings. The other shows an even a closer view, in which floating rocks can be seen. They look smooth from a distance, but up close you can see they're made of chunks of ice and rock. We can't find the project you're looking for. Then show the movie once through without pausing. Learn more and understand better with BrainPOP's animated movies, games, playful assessments, and activities covering Science, Math, History, English, and more! Two inserts appear showing the axis of the planet perpendicular to the plane containing the ring. The animation shows Tim and Moby standing with a starry sky in the background. Although it's pretty dry right now, scientists think Mars was once much more like Earth, possibly with oceans and rivers flowing on its surface. The smaller planet is labeled Pluto.. TIM: Like the stuff in the Kuiper belt, objects in the Oort cloud are thought to have originated way back when the solar system was just starting up. in: BrainPOP Transcripts Outer Solar System/Transcript < Outer Solar System View source Transcript An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. One shows a close-up of the concentric rings. (Compare/contrast; Draw conclusions), Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. Standing next to him is Moby. An inset shows a closer look at the ice and rocks that make up the rings. View our, {"synopsis":"How we did we all get here? There are four rocky, inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsand four gas giants farther outJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. TIM: I know. The first moon landing, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the greatestmomentsin humanhistory. TIM: Thats where the solar wind gets stopped in its tracks by particles from the rest of outer space! The animation shows Moby take a cloth and clean the lens on Tim's telescope. (, : Why might the outer planets have many more moons orbiting them than the inner planets? TIM: The sun's not all that big compared to other stars. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. A close-up of Mercury shows the gray planet covered in craters. He is holding a star chart in one hand and a pair of binoculars in the other. TIM: But other important parts of the solar system are governed by the solar wind, a flow of charged particles produced by the sun. It's nearly three times the height of Mount Everest. BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the Solar System Topic Page to your class. Check your students' knowledge and unleash their imaginations with Creative Coding projects. TIM: The moon is the sixth planet in the sky, next to the sun between Mars and the Earth. Tim addresses the camera. The animation shows a large clump of ice floating in space. The camera pans away from the sun. TIM: The total amount of planets in our solar system are satellites of the sun that means they travel around it in an orbit. TIM: It also has the tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons. Some of them formed hard hunks of rock called the terrestrial planets Earth is one of these. From Sam. The animation shows a close-up of the sun. TIM: The four outer planets are really far from the sun, so they're much colder. TIM: Over millions of years, gravity drew a lot of this stuff together, into clumps. An animation shows all the lined up planets. Learn more and understand better with BrainPOP's animated movies, games, playful assessments, and activities covering Science, Math, History, English, and more! Explain how each is connected to the Solar System topic. Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. The other shows white, gray, and black areas on the blue surface. The fourth from the sun is Earth, where we live. Explain how each is connected to the Solar System topic. ","alignment_guid":"966F38D6-2F4E-11E9-9BB5-F28EFCE54722","url":"\/make-a-map\/?topic=\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":""},{"feature_id":"294","type":"make_a_movie","name":"Make-a-Movie","alignments_description":"A movie-making tool to produce BrainPOP-style movies. TIM: Well, the sun is at the center of our solar system. TIM: The Kuiper belt is a ring of icy debris orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. 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