Activity 6

 SOLAR SYSTEM DEFINITION

The solar system is the set formed by the Sun and the eight planets with their respective satellites that rotate around it, they also accompany it in its displacement through the galaxy or the Milky Way dwarf planets, asteroids and innumerable comets, meteorites and interplanetary corpuscles.

There are many hypotheses about the origin of the Solar System, the most current theories link its formation with that of the Sun, about 4.7 billion years ago. From an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that fragmented or collapsed, leading to the formation of a primordial solar nebula, and through the union of larger and larger particles the formation of current planets.

MARS:

Mars is the fourth planet in order of distance from the Sun and the second smallest in the solar system, after Mercury. It received its name in homage to the god of war in Roman mythology (Ares in Greek mythology), and is also known as "the red planet" due to the reddish appearance that the predominant iron oxide gives it on its surface. . Mars is the inner planet furthest from the Sun. It is a telluric planet with a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide, and has two small and irregularly shaped satellites, Phobos and Deimos (children of the Greek god), which could be captured asteroids similar to the Trojan asteroid (5261) Eureka. Its surface characteristics are reminiscent of craters on the Moon as well as valleys, deserts, and polar caps on Earth.