Uranus

Ok, get the laughter out of you! Uranus is a gas giant with rings. It's axis is the opposite to Earths and it has 27 moons. Its atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. It takes roughly 17 hours to have one day and takes 84 years to orbit the sun.

picture-Jupiter the bodyguard

You see the white oval? That's Jupiter smashing a meteorite

Jupiter

The 5th planet in the solar system and the first gas giant, it is also the biggest planet. The majority of its atmosphere is made up of methane. It has had a storm in it for 300 year, you may know this as the red spot!
It has very thin rings from moons that has been smashed apart. A surprising fact about Jupiter is that it took only 10,000 years to form, which is very fast in astronomical terms.
Jupiter is like a body guard for Earth, as it smashes meteorites, that would otherwise hit Earth. Without Jupiter, we would possibly be dead by now. Another fact is that Jupiter has 63 moons and its gravitational field stretches over to Saturn!

Well guys that's it, see you!

Picture- the pillars of life nebula

Birth, marriage,parenthood and death... Done!

The asteroid belt

There is not really much to say on this except its a belt of rock between mars and Jupiter, it is home to Ceres,  a dwarf planet. The asteroid belt was formed when planets crashed into each other when the solar system was young. Most asteroids that hit planets come from here!
I know it was a short article, but the asteroid belt has nothing much to it.
Bye!

Diagram of the inner solar system.
The white bit is the asteroid belt.

Picture- Milky way

Part of the Milky way as taken by NASA

Mars

Getting back on track to the solar system topic, Mars.

Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system, between the asteroid belt and Earth. It is a hub for rovers exploring it's surface, and hopes of finding water on it. Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, Mount Olympus. Mars has two moons, Phobos and deimos, in which one will fly into deep space and one will crash into mars.

Curiosity Rover "Roving along"

The curiosity rover, a state of the art rover is currently on Mars studying rocks and mountains.

Mars is nicknamed the red planet due to it's red like rocks and dust.
Mars is also thought to have once had water, due to smoothed down stones on its surface.

Well that's it peeps, see you tomorrow!

Mars as pictured by a sattilite