Outer Planets

Hello I'm back. Today I am going to tell you about the outer planets. If you have been counting this is my third blog about space. Thats because space is awesome.




All of the outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The outer planets are made of gases. Most of the gases on the planets are hydrogen and helium. All of the outer planets have no surfaces. If you would go in to one of the outer planets there would be a lot of storms on the planet. The storms on the planets are like 100 times worse than the storms on earth.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System. It is best known for its great red spot. That spot is a giant storm. It is the biggest storm in the solar system. You can fit about 2 earths in it. I bet you did not know that.

Great Red Spot

As I was saying Jupiter is the biggest planet. It So big that you can fit 1000 earths in it. It takes about 12 earth years to do on orbit around the sun. It also spins faster than all the other planets. Just like all the other outer planets Jupiter has rings. Jupiter has the most moons. It has 63 moons. Jupiter is made of hydrogen and helium. Some sciencetist say that Jupiter could have been a sun or a star. Thats because it had all the things that a star needed to have. 

Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is best known for its rings. From far away its rings look solid. The rings are mainly made of particles of ice. Saturn's atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium. Saturn has a solid core and is the least dense planet. If you put Saturn in a giant lake it would float. Saturn has 60 moons. Some of these moons help the rings stay together. 

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. Uranus's  rings are sideways. Thats because the planet is tipped over sideways. Scientists think that something hit Uranus and made it tip over. The  atmosphere on the planet is made of hydrogen, helium and methane. Methane is what gives Uranus the green and blue color. Uranus has 27 moons. 

Neptune is the 8th planet from the sun.  It was discovered in 1846 and just like Uranus it has hydrogen, helium and methane.  Neptune has at least 13 moons.  It's largest moon Triton, is made up of rock with an icy outer layer.  On Neptune it has a spot just like Jupiter but it's called the great dark spot.  It was seen my Voyager 2 in 1989 and it was gone 5 years later.

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Black History Month

here Hello  today I am going to tell you about Black History Month. Today you will learn about the fight for education . I am also going to tell you about Mary Mcleod Bethune.

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Mary Mcleod Bethune was a famous person who helped black students get a better education. She also taught black students and worked with presidents to fight to make sure every child in the U.S got a good education. Back in the 1800s, blacks could not get any education. if they did get education they could not be with whites in the same classroom. 

   

Mary Mcleod Bethune was the fifteenth child out of seventeen. She was the only one that was not a slave when she was born. She was not a slave because Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation helped black slaves be free. Mary was the