8 Planets: Jupiter

5. JUPITER: THE JOVIAN GAS GIANT

✪ Jupiter is the giant of the Solar System, with a mass more than 300 times the mass of the Earth.

✪ Jupiter is the fifth planet in order from the Sun and is about 777 million km or  483 million miles from the Sun.

8 Planets: Mars

4. MARS: THE RED PLANET

✪ Mars, the Red Planet, is the fourth planet from the sun.

8 Planets: Earth

3. EARTH: OUR MOTHER

✪ The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and comes between the planet Venus and the planet Mars.

✪ Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has life.

8 Planets: Venus

2. VENUS: EARTH'S TWIN SISTER

✪ 2nd planet from the Sun, Venus is the brightest planet in the Solar System and the brightest object after Sun and Moon when seen from earth.

✪ Venus is called after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty.

8 Planets: Mercury

1. MERCURY - FACTS ABOUT THE SMALLEST ONE

 

✪ Mercury is the smallest and closest planet to the Sun.

Our Solar System: The Sun

                    :: THE SUN ::                    

SUN FACT BOOK: FACTS ABOUT THE SUN

SUN PROFILE
Age	4.6 Billion Years
Type	Yellow Dwarf (G2V)
Diameter	13,92,684 km (8,65,374 mi)
Circumference at Equator	43,70,005.6 km (109 × Earth) (27,15,395.5 mi)
Mass	1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg (333,060 x Earth)
Surface Temperature	5500°C (9941° Fahrenheit)

The Universe: An Introduction to Our Solar System

✪ The Solar System is made up of the Sun and all of the planetary objects that move around it.

✪ Our solar system is a vast place, with lots of mostly empty space between planets. But out there are comets, asteroids and more rocky, frozen objects (including dwarf planets) yet to be discovered in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. (Credit: Nasa)

Protection of Wetlands in India: National Wetland Policy and National Wetland Conservation Programme (NWCP)

Wetlands are complex ecosystems, which share the characteristics of both wet and dry environments. 

Wetlands encompass a wide range of inland, coastal and marine habitats and show immense diversity based on their genesis, geographical location, hydrological regimes and substrate factors. They include flood plains, swamps, marshes, fishponds, tidal marshes, natural and man-made wetlands.

Among the most productive life support, wetlands have immense socio-economic and ecological importance for mankind. They are crucial to the survival of natural biodiversity.

World Cancer Day: Cancer Control and Cancer Reasearch in India

World Cancer Day

It is annually celebrated on 4^th of February, all over the globe.

Significance of this day was first observed in year 1933 by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) at Geneva, Switzerland.

It was an initiative to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equity, and to integrate cancer control into the world health development agenda.

It has educated the world to save millions of preventable deaths.

In 2014, it has been focused on ‘Target 5’ of the World Cancer Declaration: Reduce stigma and dispel myths about cancer, under the tagline “Debunk the Myths”.