Draw the Solar System

If you need to draw the Solar System as a school project, or if you just want to learn how to do it, then this is the article for you!

Steps

1. Draw a circle in the middle of your picture. This will be the Sun. Color it yellow or/and draw sunspots like on the sun orange. Rays are optional.
2. Draw a much, much smaller circle near the Sun. This will be Mercury. Color it brown.
3. Draw Venus. Draw it further away from the Sun than Mercury. It is a bit bigger than Mercury, but much smaller than the Sun. It is greenish- brown because of its gaseous clouds.
4. Further away from the Sun is Earth, our home planet. Draw it the same size as Venus. The Earth is blue (water) and green (continents and island). Next to the Earth, draw the Moon, draw a small, round, gray circle close to the Earth.
5. Draw Mars. It is smaller than Earth but bigger than Mercury. Reddish, it has two small, irregular natural satellites ("Moons"), Deimos and Phobos. Draw them grey.
6. After that, draw some small irregular grey shapes beyond Mars. This will be the Asteroid Belt.
7. If you want to draw Ceres, the dwarf planet within the asteroid belt, draw an asteroid about the size of Pluto, with a reddish- brown color, almost like Mars.
8. Draw an orange and white striped planet much bigger than Earth, but still much smaller than the Sun. Draw a thin ring around it. This is Jupiter. You can draw 67 small natural satellites around it, or just some dots to symbolize it.
9. Draw yellowish Saturn, a bit smaller than as Jupiter, but with large thick rings. Draw 62 natural satellites around it, or just some dots to symbolize it.
10. Uranus, bluish-green in color, is the next planet. Draw thin, tilted rings around it and 27 natural satellites. It is much bigger than Earth but much smaller than Jupiter or Saturn.
11. Draw Neptune in the same manner that you drew Uranus, with a dark bluish- purple color. A few rings and 14 natural satellites surround this planet, and in the atmosphere there are white clouds, some of which are storms.
12. If you want to draw Pluto, a dwarf planet, draw it even smaller than Mercury. It is brown with blue- white spots for icy oceans. Draw its largest moon, Charon, almost its size. Then draw the other four, much smaller moons, named Nyx, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx.
13. If you want to draw Eris, make it about the same size as Pluto, but white. One moon.
14. In the outer parts, you can draw the Oort Comet Cloud, consisting of some comets.

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Tips

• Creating a model that accurately describes the sizes of planets and distances between them is a fun outdoor group activity. Create an Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System.
• Glitter can also be used to make the asteroids.
• Make sure to use appropriate size of chart paper or as the drawing can become messy.

Warnings

• Be sure to add corresponding measurements if you are creating a scale drawing.
• Be careful that you don't poke yourself in the eye with the pencil! If you use paint, don't inhale the fumes!

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil
• Paint if you want color

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• Test a Hypothesis
• Become an Astronomer
• Make a Magnetic Induction Battery Charger
• Make a Clinometer

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