Sol-PV Distributors | Solar System Facts
Sol-PV Distributors - About 4.5 billion years ago, a huge cloud of cosmic gas and dust banged and the solar system came into existence. The sun is a yellow star acting as the centre of our solar system. The temperature at its core is about 16 million degrees kelvin (K) and it radiates 383 billion trillion kilowatts per second. The sun's strong gravitational pull holds the earth and other planets in their places. Mercury experiences temperature extremes, varying from 200 ° C during daytime to a frigid -400 ° C at night. Mercury is mainly composed of oxygen, sodium, and helium. The cloudy planet of Venus has acid rain and carbon dioxide skies that hide our view of its surface. Earth has a diameter, a few hundred kilometers longer than that of Venus. The changing seasons on the earth is the result of its 23 degrees tilted rotation on its axis. Mars is known as the "red planet" as its surface is composed of iron oxide. Olympus Mons, on the surface of Mars, is the l...