Right now you’re on the edge of a trip to space that’ll last a lifetime. It’s not easy, you know.
You steap yourself in to your rocket. “3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!” shouts the operator as bright, orange flames begin to blast out of the bottom of yor ship and it rises up to the clouds.
You’re finally out of Earth’s atmosphere and you spot the sun. “Wow!” you shout, but remember to look away. You steer away because you know the rocket could melt at any moment.
As you approach approach Mercury, you wonder why it doesn’t get really hot, but the real answer is that the side facing the sun is extremely hot, but the other, extremely cold. You know, it’s not the scientists fault that the surface is made of metal and that’s why they called it that, you know. It just is.
Next, you head to the goddess of love’s planet, Venus! Even though the temperatures can rise up to 350 degrees celsius here, the Romans must have been idiots and thought that life once existed here. Thickos.
And we’re back! (Not really, you just see Earth.) Anyhoo, we skip that planet because it sounds boring. So much for the earth.
Well, we’re back on course and spot the planet where life actually existed, and we know this because scientists have picked up traces of running water in some of its small canyons, which is one of the biggest indicators of prehistoric life forms that lived billions and billions of years ago.
Now we’re speeding away from the inner planets, towards Bob Monkhouse’s favourite planet, Jupiter! This ain’t no little titchy rocky sphere, no! It’s a gas giant that’s the biggest planet in the solar system. There’s a great red spot on Jupiter which is actually a huge storm that’s been raging for thousands of years!
Now we head to Saturn (above). What you’ll notice about this doozy of a planet is that it’s got these great big rings going around it. This is actually made of rocks and ice, which are fragments of Saturn’s old rocky form.
Many miles after Saturn, there is the light blue planet of Uranus. Scientists studying this rudely-named planet believe that it is also the coldest planet, because they think when Uranus was flipped on its side by a huge asteroid, lots of wind was pushed in, and its thick, chemical-heavy atmosphere trapped it in until now. Who knows when it will be released?
We now head to the last full-sized planet on our journey: Neptune. Here, scientists believe it can rain diamonds all year round, and by that I mean 1,265 days. Only one probe has ever visited this icy planet, and none have ever landed here, probably because the surface is almost completely liquid methane.
Now our interstellar trip is over, we decide to rest and have a cup of orange juice and a digestive biscuit. See ya next time!
You steap yourself in to your rocket. “3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!” shouts the operator as bright, orange flames begin to blast out of the bottom of yor ship and it rises up to the clouds.
You’re finally out of Earth’s atmosphere and you spot the sun. “Wow!” you shout, but remember to look away. You steer away because you know the rocket could melt at any moment.
As you approach approach Mercury, you wonder why it doesn’t get really hot, but the real answer is that the side facing the sun is extremely hot, but the other, extremely cold. You know, it’s not the scientists fault that the surface is made of metal and that’s why they called it that, you know. It just is.
Next, you head to the goddess of love’s planet, Venus! Even though the temperatures can rise up to 350 degrees celsius here, the Romans must have been idiots and thought that life once existed here. Thickos.
And we’re back! (Not really, you just see Earth.) Anyhoo, we skip that planet because it sounds boring. So much for the earth.
Well, we’re back on course and spot the planet where life actually existed, and we know this because scientists have picked up traces of running water in some of its small canyons, which is one of the biggest indicators of prehistoric life forms that lived billions and billions of years ago.
Now we’re speeding away from the inner planets, towards Bob Monkhouse’s favourite planet, Jupiter! This ain’t no little titchy rocky sphere, no! It’s a gas giant that’s the biggest planet in the solar system. There’s a great red spot on Jupiter which is actually a huge storm that’s been raging for thousands of years!
Now we head to Saturn (above). What you’ll notice about this doozy of a planet is that it’s got these great big rings going around it. This is actually made of rocks and ice, which are fragments of Saturn’s old rocky form.
Many miles after Saturn, there is the light blue planet of Uranus. Scientists studying this rudely-named planet believe that it is also the coldest planet, because they think when Uranus was flipped on its side by a huge asteroid, lots of wind was pushed in, and its thick, chemical-heavy atmosphere trapped it in until now. Who knows when it will be released?
We now head to the last full-sized planet on our journey: Neptune. Here, scientists believe it can rain diamonds all year round, and by that I mean 1,265 days. Only one probe has ever visited this icy planet, and none have ever landed here, probably because the surface is almost completely liquid methane.
With our travel almost over, we’re now just going to take a glance at the dwarf-planet, Pluto. Until 2008, Pluto was a full-sized planet, but then, when NASA sent a probe round to study this rocky ball, its pictures told scientists that it was too small to be an actual planet, so they took away its former glory. Sad.
Now our interstellar trip is over, we decide to rest and have a cup of orange juice and a digestive biscuit. See ya next time!
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