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'. ","What is in the inner Solar System? We can't find the project you're looking for. It's got just the right conditions for humans, plants, and animals. 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TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. The animation shows Tim and Moby standing next to each other. The last planet shown and its orbit are labeled Planet Upper X. It is depicted with a thin white horizontal ring. Another animation shows the orbits of the each planet, as well as Pluto's. The one on the left shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft and the one on the right shows the Pioneer 11 spacecraft. TIM: The four inner planets are rocky, relatively warm, and have craters. TIM: You you know what its like out there? Filed as: Discussion Prompts, Solar System An image is shown of a gray planet, labeled Eris, against a night sky. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. The animation pans to now show the four outer planets, located on their circular orbits. In the animation, Saturn moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Uranus. TIM: But other important parts of the solar system are governed by the solar wind, a flow of charged particles produced by the sun. One shows a close-up of the concentric rings. An image of a dark red planet is shown against a night sky and is labeled Sedna.. TIM: Mars is called the "red planet" because of its reddish surface. An animation shows four large moons next to Jupiter. An animation first shows the sun, the planets, the Kuiper belt, and the scattered disc objects. Well, the solar system is our home in the galaxy. It is depicted as covered by clouds. An animation shows the red mountain towering over the smaller Mount Everest. Moby first looks up, then blinks and looks back down. Hearts float above Earth. A close-up image of the planet with a question mark in the middle of it is shown against a night sky. An animation shows a spacecraft moving away from the camera into outer space until it eventually disappears. An image shows chunks of material orbiting in the Kuiper Belt. The other shows a frigid landscape. 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. Tim is looking at the night sky through a telescope. TIM: Neptune is the farthest planet in the solar system. It's so tilted that it looks like its lying on its side! In one of these areas, there is a large red spot. The text trans-Neptunian objects is still written above the arrow. (Identify cause/effect), Timecode 2:28: What can you infer about the temperature on Mars compared to Earth? Text reads: Oort cloud. That means they travel around it in an orbit. An animation shows Earth rotating, with the moon orbiting around it. Then show the movie once through without pausing. The image of the sun, the planets, and the Kuiper belt is shown. The upper one is labeled "Kuiper Belt" and the lower one is labeled "Oort Cloud". TIM: One of these is a dwarf planet called Eris. TIM: First of all, anything that orbits the sun farther than the planet Neptune is called a trans- Neptunian object. All rights reserved. TIM: By the way, Pluto isnt the only dwarf planet. An image of an astronaut walking on the moon is displayed on the screen, and then an image of a spacecraft against a night sky is added to the right of it. He hugs the ground and has a large grin on his robotic face. Its rocky core alone is at least 10 times bigger than Earth. The history of the solar system is long but fascinating\u2014and it probably started with a bang! Lightning from the yellow gas strikes the red, rocky ground. TIM: The sun's not all that big compared to other stars. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, can you tell me all about the solar system? TIM: It spins really slowly, just one and a half times for every trip around the sun. *BrainPOP's Discussion Questions and Prompts align to CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards. Searching.. educators resources search ELL topics. They're clumps of ice and dust that each have a unique orbit around the sun. In the animation, Jupiter moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Saturn. That's caused by the high iron content in Martian rocks. Another animation shows floating objects coming together and forming the planet Jupiter. When it gets close to the sun, the dust and ice form long, wispy tails that you can sometimes see from Earth. TIM: Are there are there others like you? Then show the movie once through without pausing. The animation shows a drawing of the planets traveling along circles around the sun. (, Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect, BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the. What's your favorite thing out there? TIM: Pressure caused by gravity ignited nuclear reactions at this biggest clump's core, setting it on fire. The spherical object is labeled Oort cloud.. View our, {"synopsis":"How we did we all get here? Its dark storm swirls across its surface. The animation shows a large clump of ice floating in space. BrainPOP Transcripts Category page View source List of BrainPOP transcripts. The four inner planets are tiny in comparison to the four outer planets. A close-up of Mercury shows the gray planet covered in craters. But for us, it's the most important one around. The fourth from the sun is Earth, where we live. Stars and other small colored objects are shown. All rights reserved. TIM: But Pluto wasnt massive enough to fit the estimates of Planet Xs probable size. An animation shows the sun, then pulls back to show the eight planets orbiting around it. It is depicted with several large concentric rings. One planet is dark purple with a white ring around its center, and the other is small and brown. An animation shows the four outer planets, then zooms in to show Jupiter encircled by a narrow ring. BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the Solar System Topic Page to your class. TIM: Today, people just use the term Planet X to mean some undiscovered major planet of the solar system. Tim and Moby discuss the pros and cons. TIM: The smaller clumps became the planets that we know about today. The camera pans away from the sun. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. The animation shows drawings of Ceres and Eris appear in succession. An animation shows Mars, with two gray moons orbiting the planet. The ellipse representing Plutos orbit is long and narrow and can be seen to intersect the ellipse representing Neptune's orbit. TIM: On its surface, there's a permanent storm, called the Great Red Spot. (Compare/contrast; Draw conclusions), Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. It became the sun, and its energy pushed away any nearby gas. An animation shows the planets of the solar system. There's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? TIM: For a while, Pluto was thought to be the missing planet. TIM: Plutos moons, Charon, Hydra, and Nix, are also Kuiper belt objects. 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. TIM: But scientists are pretty sure that both of the Voyager probes have passed the termination shock, and are closing in on the heliopause. TIM: Saturn has more than 50 moons orbiting it. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. The animation shows objects being pulled into the center of the cloud, forming clumps. Two inserts appear showing two different views of the surface. It's nearly three times the height of Mount Everest. (Predict), What is something new you hope to learn about the solar system? The image of the sun, the planets, the Kuiper belt, and the scattered disc is shown again. TIM: For example, the termination shock is a boundary area where the particles of the solar wind slow way down. TIM: Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. (Make connections), How does its distance from the Sun affect each planet in the Solar System? TIM: Well, the solar system is our home in the galaxy. TIM: The outer planets were once rocky, too, but their gravity captured the gas pushed away by the sun. Already have an individual account with Creative Coding? The surface is divided into shaded areas. The first is labeled Orcus, the second is labeled Quaoar, and the third, the smallest one, is labeled Varuna.. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. 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. Birds fly in the sky. An animation shows the sun and then zooms out to show the sun in the center with other planets around it. "},"newscast":{"type":"newscast","instructions":"Create a newscast about the solar system. TIM: Jupiter is the largest, and one of those gas giants I was mentioning before. TIM: There's no water on Mercury and there's very little atmosphere. An image shows Tims hand holding a typed letter. 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 Mars has two moons and the tallest mountain in the solar system called Olympus Mons. The animation shows a close-up of 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. TIM: Oh, the things I mentioned are all governed by the suns gravity, which stretches half way to the next star system! An animation shows the eight planets orbiting the sun, as well as the chunks of rock forming the Asteroid Belt. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, can you tell me all about the solar system? TIM: Hey Moby, I think I see aliens. Pluto's orbit intersects with Neptune's. TIM: Well, planetary scientists arent sure whether Sedna is one of the farthest scattered disc objects or part of another region: the Oort cloud. In the animation, Venus moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Earth. "]},"pop_a_joke":{"joke_text_1":"What did Earth say to Saturn? TIM: The dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus traps so much heat, the surface can get up to over 450 degrees Celsius. (, Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. TIM: It also has a permanent storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, which is way bigger than the entire Earth! The first moon landing, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the greatestmomentsin humanhistory. TIM: Scientists think that comets come from far regions of the solar system, called the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. The biggest, Titan, is one of the only moons with a thick atmosphere. ","What is the Sun? The arrow labeled gravity is removed and another, yellow horizontal arrow pointing from the sun extending to the middle of the scattered disc and labeled solar wind is added. TIM: It also has at least three moons: Charon, Hydra, and Nix! *BrainPOPs Discussion Questions and Prompts align to, Wake: Tales from the Aqualab SnapThought Prompts. It's tilted so that it looks like its lying on its side! 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. Another, similar line labeled heliopause is added to the right of the line labeled termination shock, so that the arrow labeled solar wind points right to it. Others include Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, and an object named Eris, which is slightly larger than Pluto. The smaller planet is labeled Pluto.. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript, Adding and Subtracting Fractions/Transcript, Adding and Subtracting Integers/Transcript, American Revolution/Second Remake Transcript, Antonyms, Synonyms, and Homonyms/Transcript, Branches of Government/Transcript (New Version), Branches of Government/Transcript (Old Version), Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka/Transcript, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka/Transcript (Update), Building the Thirteen Colonies/Transcript, Causes of the American Revolution/Transcript, Civil Rights/Transcript (Updated Version). 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. Two inserts appear and show the rocky surface. An animation shows an icy comet speeding toward the sun. ","alignment_guid":"9790C0FE-2F4E-11E9-9CAD-EBD25B5E995C","url":"\/make-a-movie\/?topic=294","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":""},{"type":"coding","feature_id":"40545","name":"Creative Coding","feature_name":"Creative coding","alignments_description":"Coding projects offered in both text- and block-based coding languages. TIM: Its by far the most distant known region of the solar system. TIM: Then there's the last one Pluto, a cold, rocky body even smaller than our own moon. TIM: Mars is called the "red planet" because of its reddish surface, created by the iron in Martian rocks. As it approaches, its tail grows longer. An animation shows Moby blink and his eyes turn into a spinning hypnosis spiral which then expands to cover the entire screen. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, Is there really such a thing as Planet X? Tim: Well, the most well-known is Pluto, which was recently reclassified as a dwarf planet. An animation shows the dry, rocky surface of Mars transition to a lake. Charon partially overlapping it on the left, and two small, gray moons labeled Hydra and Nix above and below it. TIM: Over millions of years, gravity drew a lot of this stuff together, into clumps. Another view shows clumps spinning around a large central clump. If you An interactive tutorial for finding and using Challenge 1999-2023 BrainPOP. Moby thinks and then extends his arms. TIM: The Oort cloud is thought to be made of billions of small objects, mostly comets. Two inserts appear showing the axis of the planet perpendicular to the plane containing the ring. TIM: But there are tons of other objects that keep popping up in the far regions of the solar system! Text reads: Oort cloud. Solar System/Transcript < Solar System View source Transcript Old Version Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby An animation shows Tim peering into a telescope pointed at the night sky. The rings are a thin layer of millions of chunks of ice and rock. A curved, orange, vertical line is added along the boundary between the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc and is labeled termination shock.. Pluto has an odd orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. An animation shows Pluto surrounded by four small moons and one larger one. The other shows an even a closer view, in which floating rocks can be seen. TIM: Sure. (, : Why did Earth become an inner planet? Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. TIM: Yeah, I guess Earth's my favorite, too. TIM: Saturn is another gas giant, with more than 45 moons orbiting it. TIM: Its been really hard to keep track of these guys, since the signals they emit are so weak and so far away now! (Compare/contrast; Make inferences), Timecode 4:00: Why might the outer planets have many more moons orbiting them than the inner planets? But wait, there's more! An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. The sun can be seen in the background. An animation shows the planet with the questions mark disappearing. The surface of Venus can get close to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Tim: Eris is actually the largest dwarf planet in the solar system its just a bit bigger than Pluto! They're called the Galilean Moons, and they're almost like little planets. As the sides are mentioned, two inserts appear. An inset shows a closer look at the ice and rocks that make up the rings. 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. Have your students signed up forindividual accounts? 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 a cloud of dust and debris circling the sun. (Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect). . "},"comic":{"type":"comic","instructions":"Create a comic about the solar system. It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. Tim stops looking at the stars and takes the paper from Moby. Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. The first were discovered hundreds of years ago by Galileo Galilei. 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Planet X was the name given for a theoretical planet some astronomers thought existed beyond the orbit of Neptune. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. TIM: They launched in the early 1970s and are also thought to be nearing the heliopause. It is depicted as a blue-green sphere with a small white vertical ring. But wait, there's more! TIM: Uranus is a gassy planet with small gray rings and more than 25 moons. An animation shows a large number of rocks floating in space. Immense gravitational pressure built up at the core of this gigantic clump. To get started, all you have to do is set up your teacher account. It's way bigger than our entire planet, and it's been raging for centuries. A robot, Moby, wipes the end of the telescope with a dust cloth. 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.Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. The animation zooms in on Jupiter. An animation shows Moby sitting next to Tim and looking at him while Tim is talking to him. 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. At the end of the episode, Moby says he knows what it's like out there and after questioned by Tim, hypnotizes him. TIM: Dwarf planets are kind of like regular planets, but generally smaller. TIM: The four outer planets are really far from the sun, so they're much colder. The scene changes back to Tim lying in the sleeping bag, holding the binoculars and the letter. TIM: Well, not really. TIM: Comets are clumps of ice and dust that orbit the sun. The animation shows five planets traveling along the circles. When they get close to the sun, some of their ice forms long, wispy tails that you can sometimes see from Earth! Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. Tim addresses the camera. The orbits are ellipses. They formed the gas giants, like Jupiter. An animation shows Venus, with gassy yellow and orange swirls covering its surface. Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. TIM: Well well, how do you know? 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Then Neptunes orbit is added and an arrow pointing away from Neptune and the sun is added. 19992023 BrainPOP. "},"flag":{"type":"flag","instructions":"Create a flag that represents the solar system. 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. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. One shows moons circling Neptune. TIM: Other large Kuiper bodies include Orcus, Quaoar, and Varuna. TIM: I know, it's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? It likely had oceans and rivers, and its atmosphere contained more heat-trapping gases. The sun gets larger and wispy tails appear behind the clump of ice. Mercury is the closest to the sun, and it looks kind of like our moon. Some of them formed hard hunks of rock called the terrestrial planets Earth is one of these. Limited Student Access . 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Tim addresses Moby while turning his head to look at him. "}}},{"type":"related_reading","feature_id":"11211","name":"Related Reading","feature_name":"Related Reading","alignments_description":"High-interest, informational texts that extend understanding of a topic. In the animation, the view changes to show Charon, Hydra, and Nix in orbit above Pluto. TIM: The four inner planets are much smaller than the four outer ones. Others include Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, and an object named Eris, which is slightly larger than Pluto. Then show the movie once through without pausing. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. Atoms began fusing together in a nuclear reaction that continues to this day. TIM: It's huge, with a mass 318 times that of Earth! Asteroids are pieces of rock centimeters to hundreds of kilometers wide that wander the solar system. Outer Solar System is a Science video of BrainPOP aired on May 14, 2002. TIM: But, you know, there probably wont be any more planets found. TIM: Earth is one of these terrestrial planets. 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. TIM: Uranus is a gassy planet with small gray rings and more than 25 moons. 1999-2023 BrainPOP. But how does it make our calculators work? TIM: That means it traps the sun's heat. 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'. BrainPOP Jr. Games. For best experience, access this project full size. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. TIM: Sedna, another large scattered disc object, hasnt been fully categorized yet. Your friend, Charlotte. You probably know it by its amazing set of rings! It is depicted as a blue sphere with a small white horizontal ring. As each condition is mentioned, four inserts show different parts of Earth: an ocean; buildings amongst trees; people; and animals. Tim goes on to explain about space beyond Neptune, as well as some space probes and planets. In the animation, the view of the asteroids moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Pluto. 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. Text at the top right reads: dwarf planet. Only a portion of Jupiter can be seen and the other planets seem very small in comparison. Like Uranus, it's sometimes called an ice giant because it's so cold. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. Standing next to him is Moby. A diagram shows two planets and their orbits. TIM: So the search for Planet X was kind of pointless An animation shows the camera panning across stars in the night sky. So, get ready to blast off with Tim and Moby as they explore our galactic neighborhood! They look smooth from a distance, but up close you can see they're made of chunks of ice and rock. The camera zooms in on Tim and Moby. Venus is sometimes called Earths sister planet, because of the similar size. An image is divided vertically into three equal parts and shows three round bodies of different colors decreasing in size from left to right. The added planet has a question mark placed in the middle of it. The biggest was in the center, and everything else began to spin around it. 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. Some astronomers think a huge collision in its early days might have done that. Another drawing shows a cluster of rocks in front of a planet at the bottom. An animation shows the two X-marks going beyond the termination shock and closer to the heliopause. Far out from the sun is Earth, where we live. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 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