Positions of the Planets from the Sun

In Science, we learnt about the planets in our solar system and interesting facts about the planets too. 

Did you know that Mercury is the smallest planet and closest to the sun? 

Did you know Mars is often called the Red Planet as its surface has lots of iron oxide and makes it look red?

Did you know that Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and it has over 60 moons?

Did you know that Uranus is know as an ice giant as its surface temperature is -224'C

Next we looked at how far each planet was away from the Sun. We used the scale 1 metre = 150 million kilometres and measured the distances on the field.

Mercury is 60 million kilometres from the Sun which was 0.4 metres.

Venus is 110 million kilometres from the sun which was 0.73 metres.

Earth is 150 million kilometres from the sun which was 1 metre.

Mars is 230 million kilometres from the sun which was 1.53 metres.

Jupiter is 780 million kilometres from the sun which was  5.2 metres.

Saturn is 1400 million kilometres from the sun which was 9.33 metres.

Uranus is 2900 million kilometres from the sun which was 19.33 metres.

Neptune is 4500 million kilometres from the sun which was 30 metres.

The distance was so vast that even on the scaled version on the field we couldn't fit it into one picture.