Choose a word to explore. Atoms began fusing together in a nuclear reaction that continues to this day. Outer Solar System is a Science video of BrainPOP aired on May 14, 2002. TIM: Well well, how do you know? What do you think youll learn about the solar system in this movie? From, Sam. He hugs the ground and has a large grin on his robotic face. An animation shows Pluto rotating in space. You probably know Saturn by its amazing set of rings. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Although it's pretty dry right now, scientists think Mars was once much more like Earth, possibly with oceans and rivers flowing on its surface. An animation shows the planet with the questions mark disappearing. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! It is depicted with blotches of white and gray regions. TIM: Scientists think that comets come from far regions of the solar system, called the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. It's actually just a medium-sized star, but for us it's the most important star there is. Tim is wearing a T-shirt with a drawing of planets in the center. The last planet shown and its orbit are labeled Planet Upper X. Another yellow arrow labeled interstellar wind is added to extend from the Oort cloud to the line labeled heliopause.. TIM: It spins really slowly, just one and a half times for every trip around the sun. TIM: Others became big balls of mostly gas called gas giants, like Jupiter. View our, {"synopsis":"How we did we all get here? The animation shows Tim and Moby standing with a starry sky in the background. The eight planets in our solar system are satellites of the sun. TIM: Earth is one of these terrestrial planets. An animation shows the gas and clumps of matter swirling around a bright sphere. Then show the movie once through without pausing. Searching.. educators resources search ELL topics. 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TIM: The outer planets were once rocky, too, but their gravity captured the gas pushed away by the sun. An animation shows Mars, with two gray moons orbiting the planet. The ring is labeled Kuiper belt.. Theres a stormy Great Dark Spot on Neptune thats kind of like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. (, Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect, BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the. Explain how each is connected to the Solar System topic. Scientists think this stuff has stayed pretty unchanged from the time the solar system first formed about four and a half billion years ago! It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. All rights reserved. Hearts float above Earth. Its dark storm swirls across its surface. TIM: But, you know, there probably wont be any more planets found. That's why one side gets so hot, and the other gets so cold. TIM: The Oort cloud is thought to be made of billions of small objects, mostly comets. Astronomers believe that more than 4.5 billion years ago, an exploding star created a huge cloud of gas and dust. The animation shows Moby take a cloth and clean the lens on Tim's telescope. An animation shows gas suspended in the starry universe. An animation first shows the sun, the planets, the Kuiper belt, and the scattered disc objects. It forms a distant ring around the solar system. TIM: Comets are totally different than asteroids. For best experience, access this project full size. Some of them formed hard hunks of rock called the terrestrial planets Earth is one of these. An animation shows four large moons next to Jupiter. TIM: The four inner planets are much smaller than the four outer ones. All rights reserved. Our solar system is also home to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and the distant objects of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. In the animation, Mars moves out of view. An animation shows the blue-green planet with its tilted rings. Two inserts appear. Tim is lying on the ground in a sleeping bag partially sticking out of a camping tent. TIM: Sure. So, get ready to blast off with Tim and Moby as they explore our galactic neighborhood! TIM: One of these is a dwarf planet called Eris. TIM: The four outer planets are really far from the sun, so they're much colder. A diagram shows the terminal shock as an orange circle with the sun and the planets of the solar system, including Earth, in the center of it. An image shows chunks of material orbiting in the Kuiper Belt. All of the parts of the diagram are labeled and a horizontal red arrow labeled gravity goes through the image and points from the Oort cloud to the sun. in: BrainPOP Transcripts Outer Solar System/Transcript < Outer Solar System View source Transcript An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. Already have an individual account with Creative Coding? An animation shows the planets and their orbits in the solar system, moving away from the sun. The surface of Venus can get close to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The clump of ice gets closer to the sun. TIM: But other important parts of the solar system are governed by the solar wind, a flow of charged particles produced by the sun. Another view shows clumps spinning around a large central clump. In the animation, Jupiter moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Saturn. Two images are displayed next to each other against a night sky. He then looks at the stars through his binoculars and Moby covers the binoculars with a piece of paper. "}},"relative_path":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","small_screen_compatible":"","requires_flash":"","description":{"sound":"","text":""}}. But how does it make our calculators work? It is depicted with several large concentric rings. This topic is not available for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. The animation shows drawings of Ceres and Eris appear in succession. We can't find the project you're looking for. An animation shows Earth rotating, with the moon orbiting around it. But for us, it's the most important one around. As the sides are mentioned, two inserts appear. Two inserts appear. (Compare/contrast; Draw conclusions), Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. As it approaches, its tail grows longer. An animation shows all the lined up planets. The diagram expands to show a third planet and its orbit to the right of the previously shown two planets. Far out from the sun is Earth, where we live. The animation pans to now show the four outer planets, located on their circular orbits. TIM: It also has the tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons. The first moon landing, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the greatestmomentsin humanhistory. TIM: Farther out from the Kuiper belt is an area called the scattered disc. Its got perfect conditions for plants and animals: not too hot, not too cold. Standing next to him is Moby. Tim addresses Moby. Some astronomers think a huge collision in its early days might have done that. An animation shows light blue and white objects that resemble crumbled sheets of paper moving across a night sky. In the animation, Saturn moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Uranus. It is depicted as a blue-green sphere with a small white vertical ring. It was considered the main planet until 2006 when it got demoted to a dwarf planet. The four inner planets are tiny in comparison to the four outer planets. Solar System Discussion Prompts and Pause Points, What do you think youll learn about the solar system in this movie? It's way bigger than our entire planet, and it's been raging for centuries. An animation shows the pale yellow planet encircled by large rings. There's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? TIM: Pressure caused by gravity ignited nuclear reactions at this biggest clump's core, setting it on fire. The other shows white, gray, and black areas on the blue surface. TIM: Mars is called the "red planet" because of its reddish surface. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. An animation shows the dry, rocky surface of Mars transition to a lake. TIM: Thats where the solar wind gets stopped in its tracks by particles from the rest of outer space! TIM: Other large Kuiper bodies include Orcus, Quaoar, and Varuna. An animation shows Moby looking at Tim. It started out around four and a half billion years agoBack then, our solar system was just a cloud of gas and dust, probably left over from the explosion of a star. Then show the movie once through without pausing. Its atmosphere is filled with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Explain how each is connected to the Solar System topic. Its rocky core alone is at least 10 times bigger than Earth. When it gets close to the sun, the dust and ice form long, wispy tails that you can sometimes see from Earth. Standing next to him is Moby. "},"flag":{"type":"flag","instructions":"Create a flag that represents the solar system. TIM: The four outer planets are really far from the sun, so they're much colder. TIM: The cloud also began to spin, with the biggest clump in the center. (Predict), What is something new you hope to learn about the solar system? In the animation, an insert shows a close-up of the red spot. Different sized objects scattered around the Kuiper belt are highlighted in blue and labeled Scattered disc.. TIM: Yeah, theyve been traveling in space for about 35 years now! TIM: Yup, Pluto is also a Kuiper belt object. The Oort Cloud is even further from the sun. Learn how you can get access to hundreds of topic-specific coding projects. Have your students signed up forindividual accounts? An animation shows Venus, with gassy yellow and orange swirls covering its surface. Each is depicted with rings of different sizes. TIM: Pluto has an odd elliptical orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. The history of the solar system is long but fascinating\u2014and it probably started with a bang! A curved, orange, vertical line is added along the boundary between the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc and is labeled termination shock.. TIM: There are more than 1,000 trans-Neptunian objects in the solar system and counting! Moby first looks up, then blinks and looks back down. Two objects, labeled Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, marked by Upper Xs, move away from the Earth with their paths shown as dotted curves. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! They're called the Galilean Moons, and they're almost like little planets. An animation shows the sun and then zooms out to show the sun in the center with other planets around it. . The spherical object is labeled Oort cloud.. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. ","alignment_guid":"98C726CA-2F4E-11E9-81FE-F2032EB223BB","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":"","url":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","icon":"\/assets\/images\/creativecoding_svg_icon.svg","coding_types":{"museum":{"type":"museum","instructions":"Code a digital museum to show what you know about the solar system. The animation shows Moby take a cloth and clean the lens on Tim's telescope. The heliopause is shown as a dark orange semicircle to the left of the termination shock with a bigger radius than the circle that represents the termination shock. (Set goals). TIM: You you know what its like out there? Contents 1 Summary 2 Appearances 3 Transcript 4 Quiz 5 FYI Comic 6 Gallery Summary While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. When were you there? Pluto has an odd orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. (Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect). The sun is on the left of the screen, planets and Kuiper belt to the right of it, followed by the scattered disc and the Oort cloud to the far right of the screen. From Sam. TIM: Over millions of years, gravity drew a lot of this stuff together, into clumps. An animation shows Moby sitting next to Tim and looking at him while Tim is talking to him. TIM: No, you couldn't go thereyou'd probably either melt or freeze. TIM: So the search for Planet X was kind of pointless An animation shows the camera panning across stars in the night sky. Only a portion of Jupiter can be seen and the other planets seem very small in comparison. TIM: Sedna, another large scattered disc object, hasnt been fully categorized yet. That's caused by the high iron content in Martian rocks. TIM: Uranus is a gassy planet with small gray rings and more than 25 moons. ","alignment_guid":"966F38D6-2F4E-11E9-9BB5-F28EFCE54722","url":"\/make-a-map\/?topic=\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":""},{"feature_id":"294","type":"make_a_movie","name":"Make-a-Movie","alignments_description":"A movie-making tool to produce BrainPOP-style movies. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. An animation shows the sun, then pulls back to show the eight planets orbiting around it. An animation shows a man, Tim, and a robot, Moby, at a campsite. An image of the Oort cloud is shown again. An animation shows a cloud of dust and debris circling the sun. They look smooth from a distance, but up close you can see they're made of chunks of ice and rock. They formed the gas giants, like Jupiter. As each condition is mentioned, four inserts show different parts of Earth: an ocean; buildings amongst trees; people; and animals. The image of the sun, the planets, the Kuiper belt, and the scattered disc is shown again. TIM: Over the course of millions of years, gravity pulled the elements of this dust cloud closer and closer together until clumps began to form. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. (, : What can you infer about the temperature on Mars compared to Earth? "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. An animation shows an icy comet speeding toward the sun. Two images are displayed next to each other against a night sky. TIM: Right, the solar system isn't just planets and the sun there are lots of smaller bodies floating out there, too. An image of a planet labeled Pluto is shown against a night sky. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. An image is divided vertically into three equal parts and shows three round bodies of different colors decreasing in size from left to right. They're clumps of ice and dust that each have a unique orbit around the sun. Gravity drew this stuff together into clumps, eventually forming the sun and the surrounding planets. TIM: Yeah, I guess Earth's my favorite, too. TIM: It also has a permanent storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, which is way bigger than the entire Earth! It is depicted with a thin white horizontal ring. There are four rocky, inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsand four gas giants farther outJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. TIM: But there are tons of other objects that keep popping up in the far regions of the solar system! TIM: Its by far the most distant known region of the solar system. Moby blinks, looks at Tim, and then looks at the night sky. The ellipse representing Plutos orbit is long and narrow and can be seen to intersect the ellipse representing Neptune's orbit. An animation shows a man, Tim, and a robot, Moby, at a campsite. TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. It is depicted as covered by clouds. Text reads: Oort cloud. Asteroids are pieces of rock centimeters to hundreds of kilometers wide that wander the solar system. TIM: Man, I wonder what it must feel like to be so far from home An animation shows Tim and Moby at their camp site in the middle of dark woods. Stop at the following times in the movie and ask questions or prompt a discussion to keep students focused and to assess their understanding before moving on: Timecode 1:12: Why did Earth become an inner planet? Pluto's orbit intersects with Neptune's. Moby thinks and then extends his arms. An image shows a big, brown planet labeled Pluto, a smaller, purple moon labeled. But wait, there's more! The sphere gets bigger and brighter until it explodes, pushing gas away and leaving the eight planets orbiting the sun. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. Mars moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of the Moon. TIM: Like the stuff in the Kuiper belt, objects in the Oort cloud are thought to have originated way back when the solar system was just starting up. But wait, there's more! At the end of the episode, Moby says he knows what it's like out there and after questioned by Tim, hypnotizes him. A close-up of Mercury shows the gray planet covered in craters. The animation focuses on the swirling red storm on Jupiter's surface. TIM: The smaller clumps became the planets that we know about today. The scene changes back to Tim lying in the sleeping bag, holding the binoculars and the letter. "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. It's tilted so that it looks like its lying on its side! Tim stops looking at the stars and takes the paper from Moby. The screen is split in half vertically and displays Sedna on the left and Mars, significantly bigger and lighter in color than Sedna, on the right. An earth-friendly renewable source of energy that comes to us straight from the sun! One shows a plain with a hot sun blazing down on it. It started out four and a half billion years ago, as a big cloud of gas and dust out in space, mostly hydrogen and helium. (, : Why might the outer planets have many more moons orbiting them than the inner planets? ","Is Pluto a planet? The added planet has a question mark placed in the middle of it. (, : Why did Earth become an inner planet? TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, Is there really such a thing as Planet X? The biggest was in the center, and everything else began to spin around it. The one on the left shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft and the one on the right shows the Pioneer 11 spacecraft. *BrainPOP's Discussion Questions and Prompts align to CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards. Try searching your Timeline, or return to the homepage. 19992023 BrainPOP. ","What is in the inner Solar System? Two inserts appear and show the rocky surface. All rights reserved. "},"comic":{"type":"comic","instructions":"Create a comic about the solar system. An image is shown of a gray planet, labeled Eris, against a night sky. The animation zooms in on Jupiter. What's your favorite thing out there? The side closest to the sun glows red, while the other side is covered in ice. TIM: That means it traps the sun's heat. Another image shows a lake surrounded by hills of trees. Mercury is the closest to the sun, and it looks kind of like our moon. The animation shows a drawing of a circle of rocks around the sun and planets at the top. All items (989) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other 3 3D Printing/Transcript 6 60s Folk/Transcript A A Wrinkle in Time/Transcript AAPI Heritage Month/Transcript Abraham Lincoln/Transcript Absolute Value/Transcript Acceleration/Transcript He is holding a star chart in one hand and a pair of binoculars in the other. The animation shows Tim and Moby standing next to each other. TIM: Right, the solar system isnt just planets and the sunthere are lots of smaller bodies floating out there, too. BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the Solar System Topic Page to your class. TIM: The four inner planets are rocky, relatively warm, and have craters. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. Mars has two moons and the tallest mountain in the solar system called Olympus Mons. The spiraling pattern transfixes Tim and he falls asleep as Moby looks at the night skies through the binoculars. BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the Solar System Topic Page to your class. Tim addresses the camera. Tim and Moby discuss the pros and cons. TIM: Mars is called the "red planet" because of its reddish surface, created by the iron in Martian rocks. Birds fly in the sky. Another animation shows floating objects coming together and forming the planet Jupiter. It's nearly three times the height of Mount Everest. TIM: Well, planetary scientists arent sure whether Sedna is one of the farthest scattered disc objects or part of another region: the Oort cloud. TIM: They launched in the early 1970s and are also thought to be nearing the heliopause. TIM: Saturn is another gas giant, with more than 45 moons orbiting it. Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. An animation shows Mercury rotating. TIM: I know. It was named after the Roman god of the sea, probably because its so blue. An animation shows Earth rotating while the moon orbits around it. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. The animation shows a large clump of ice floating in space. "}},"relative_path":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","small_screen_compatible":"","requires_flash":"","description":{"sound":"","text":""}},{"EntryID":"3060","name":"Word Play","display_name":"Word Play","folder_name_on_disk":"","show_on_site":"Yes","icon":"\/feature_settings\/word_play_icon.svg","sound":"\/feature_settings\/word_play_sound.mp3","background":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/wordplay\/background.svg","header":"\/feature_settings\/hdr_wordPlay.js","url":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/wordplay\/","type":"word_play","data":"","relative_path":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/wordplay\/","small_screen_compatible":"yes","requires_flash":"","description":{"text":"Play with words! One planet is dark purple with a white ring around its center, and the other is small and brown. TIM: Hey Moby, I think I see aliens. TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. TIM: It also has at least three moons: Charon, Hydra, and Nix! The image of the sun, the planets, and the Kuiper belt is shown. An animation shows Pluto surrounded by four small moons and one larger one. An animation shows Earth from outer space, with Moby's arms extending around the planet in a giant hug. In the animation, an insert compares Jupiter with some of the other planets. In the animation, Venus moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Earth. One shows a close-up of the concentric rings. The animation zooms out to show a large proportion of the rocks form a circle around the sun and lie between Mars and Jupiter. Planet X was the name given for a theoretical planet some astronomers thought existed beyond the orbit of Neptune. Tim goes on to explain about space beyond Neptune, as well as some space probes and planets. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. TIM: Well, the sun is at the center of our solar system. It's got just the right conditions for humans, plants, and animals. The camera pans away from the sun. TIM: For a while, Pluto was thought to be the missing planet. TIM: Saturn has more than 50 moons orbiting it. An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. No one knows exactly why that is, but some scientists think the planet was knocked around during its early days by some other passing body. The fourth from the sun is Earth, where we live. TIM: The dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus traps so much heat, the surface can get up to over 450 degrees Celsius. (, How does its distance from the Sun affect each planet in the Solar System? In one of these areas, there is a large red spot. While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. Tim: Eris is actually the largest dwarf planet in the solar system its just a bit bigger than Pluto! In the animation, Moby falls down onto the grass with a big "Clunk!" TIM: The Kuiper belt is a ring of icy debris orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. This animated Science resource page with lesson plans and teaching tips, for Kindergarten to 3rd grade students teaches about the Sun, moons, and planets that make up our Solar System. TIM: The dwarf planet Pluto, known as a main planet until it was demoted in 2006, is a cold, rocky body even smaller than our own moon. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. Tim addresses Moby while turning his head to look at him. The rings are a thin layer of millions of chunks of ice and rock. The screen is split in half vertically and displays Eris on the left and Pluto on the right. 1999-2023 BrainPOP. TIM: Oh, the things I mentioned are all governed by the suns gravity, which stretches half way to the next star system! It then zooms out to show a big spherical object composed of light colored particles. The animation zooms in to Venus' surface. A cross-section of the planet shows that its core is much larger than Earth. An animation shows the sun and the planets of the solar system, then zooms out to show a ring around the planets composed of small objects. Venus is almost the same size as Earth; its sometimes called Earth's sister planet. Then show the movie once through without pausing. TIM: Well, the solar system is our home in the galaxy. (Make connections), How does its distance from the Sun affect each planet in the Solar System? 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