The solar system 2

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THE SOLAR SYSTEMPlanets

Rocky planets

Mercury VenusEarthMars

Gas planets

Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Ancient scientists

Aristotle and Ptolemy

Proposed that the Earth is thecenter of the solar system and that

all the other planets and the Sunorbit the Earth.

Copernicus

Introduced the model of the solar system that we know now

Galileo Galilei Made his own version of the

telescope (makes faraway objectslook closer)

He proved that Copernicus’smodel of the solar system was

correct.

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