Doing a project for science, but don't know which textures to use to make my planets. Ex:ice for pluto. HELP!!
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What a fun project!  Here are some quick ideas:\n\nMercury and the Moon are both basically rocks, covered with craters.\n\nVenus is a tough one. It's always surrounded by clouds, so you could go with something light grey and smooth.  But, under the clouds, its surface is pretty much a volcanic wasteland.  It's hot and  has lots of lava flows. You could almost use burnt charcoal from a barbecue, or maybe melted plastic, or a marshmellow that's been toasted.\n\nEarth's distinctive feature it that it's covered in water. So maybe go with blue glass, or, if you want to get fancy, somehow come up with something you can keep wet.\n\nMars is kind of sandy.\n\nJupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all gas giants, which means that they don't really have a surface.  They're just layers and layers of clouds, going down thousands of miles. So maybe make them out of cotton?\n\nTake a look at the source for pictures and more info on the planets.
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I did a model of Mars once using a very large popcorn bowl and papier maiche.  No idea how to spell that, but any craft store will have it.  It made a nice hemisphere.  It's be pretty easy to stick toothpicks in the wet stuff as foundations and then use foil or something around it...\n\nWe also threw small rocks at the wet plaster to make craters....
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if you are asking because you want to try and make similar characters yourself, you can use polymer clay. It's sold in craft stores - it's a type of modelling clay and when you bake it, it becomes permanently hard.\nI would suggest sculpey clay, or primo sculpey - as they are the softest.\nYou can buy different glazes (matte/gloss) to make the clay shiny after it is baked.
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Here are a couple of sites u can get photos of planets. Hope it helps.\n\nhttp://www.photovault.com/search.asp?srchwd=pictures+of+planets\n\nhttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html\n\nThere are plenty more site if u type it in a search engine.
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Twertyto's answer is the best! When I was just learning about astronomy I asked the same question. Someone told me a very simple answer that just might work for you:  A planet reflects light and a star creates it. That sounds simple enough for simpler times! But now welcome to the 21st century!!!\nBrown dwarfs are kind of the "animal" that bridges these two seemingly different objects. Astronomy is having a hard (but fun) time right now trying to decide exactly what a planet is- from the very large to the very small. Is an object 75 times the size of Jupiter a planet? 79 times? 81 times? No one seems to know. Do we call them planets or officially name them Brown Dwarfs. On the other side of the issue, is Pluto a planet? They just discovered a larger than Pluto object and several almost-the-size-of-Pluto objects out past Pluto's orbit. Are all of these planets? If Pluto's not a planet, but now has been discovered to have at least 3 moons (two new one's were just discovered recently), then what do we call it? \nThis has been a surprisingly tough answer for Astronomers as well, so not only is it a great question, but you- and everyone else- might have to stick around for a while for the difinitive answer!!!
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i have no idea. y dnt u search the internet for an answer. u can go to planet.com, or planetoftheapes.com or planeteria.com or planetetc.com. hope these sites can help u.
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All planets: http://www.nineplanets.org/\nMars: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/\n\nAlso, start at Yahoo Search and type in:\npictures of jupiter\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+of+jupiter&rs=3&fr2=rs-top&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-\n\nMercury: pictures of mercury http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+of+mercury&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&x=wrt\nVenus: pictures of venus http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+of+venus&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&x=wrt\n... \nYou get the ... uh ... picture.
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I did a google search for this and came up with this site.\n\nNine Planets: http://www.nineplanets.org/intro.html\n\nIf you scroll down the home page on this site, you will find a list of FAQ's with links to other pages. If you continue on you will see a list of links to other astronomy sites. I checked out the Nine Planets for kids link and it looks like what you're after. It is kid friendly and offers several free printouts for teachers. Check it out!\n\nhttp://www.nineplanets.org/index.html\n\nGood luck and happy star watching!
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Try Planet Source Code:\nhttp://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/default.asp?lngWId=8
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All the solar system models you can buy are not to scale, which is OK if all you want to do is show the planets in the right order. But I much prefer a scale model. Only trouble is, it is WAY to big to make indoors. Jupiter is 10 times bigger than Earth and the Sun is 10 times bigger than Jupiter, so if Earth is a 1 inch ball, you need a 10 inch ball to be Jupiter (a basketball is 10 inches) and a 100 inch ball (8 feet 4 inch) for the Sun. Maybe a weather balloon would do. What I did instead was say that the basketball was the Sun, a one inch ball was Jupiter and a 1/10 inch pinhead was Earth. The other planet sizes can be calculated with the first link in the sources below. If the Sun is 10 inches, then Mercury is 34 feet away, Earth is 89 feet away and Pluto is about 2/3 of a mile away. What I did was take the class for a walk outside. We walked 2/3 of a mile from the school, setting up planets as we went. Or you could just set them in a row on the table and have the correct distances written on an information sheet. The whole point is that the planets are really small and really far apart. The models where the sun is only twice as big as Earth just are not convincing.
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If you have the letter names, use the Periodic Table of Elements.  If not, use PH paper, and that might help.  Go by color, soluability, and texture.
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This website may help, not only does it have a picture, but it has step by step:)\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/astronomy/solarsystemmodel/\nI would use the foam balls instead of the tag paper. If you need to make it to scale this website might also help:\nhttp://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html
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I painted Styrofoam balls of different sizes for my two year old daughter.  The only moon I included was ours and I attached it to the earth with a toothpick. (You could use those little crafty-puff-ball-thingies for the moons of other planets.)  I made the rings of the ringed planets with poster board that I painted and cut into a circle.  I also attached those with toothpicks. (She's two, she's not picky.)\nI used metal florist wire to make hooks that I stuck directly into the balls and attatched them directly to the ceiling with thumbtacks.\n\nHope this helps.  A 7 yr old would definitely enjoy the painting, etc. . .  Good luck!\n\n**The above mentioned technique with the ballons and paper strips is called paper mache.**
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Go to this website:\n\nhttp://www.planet-source-code.com/
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They have solids cores.  Other than that the are mostly gas, due to the distance from the suns gravity.  When our solar system was formed most of the "heavier" elements stayed close to the major gravity pull, the sun. once out any other heavy elements that made it out that far condensed to gether to form cores.  Now; the farther away from the sun you go the coder it gets.  Now the gases that are out that far basically freeze and get "solid".  hope this helps!!\n\nBy the way- ALL planets need a core.  even though it might not be of same rocky material as other planets (Jupiter, saturn)..think of my explaination above.  If none of the solids came out that far out, they could get together to form a core, but something has to be in the center of a planet.
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Don't forget the tenth planet "Xena"\n\nSome info on the planets:\n\nhttp://beaker.atspace.org/spaceglossplanets.htm
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Tutorials are okay for learning the basics, but I suggest learning what each tool does and how it manipulates pixels. I find that tutorials cannot prepare you for questions in the classroom or projects on the job. Find some textures (i.e. concret, wood, granite, carpet, etc.) and see if you can recreate them yourself. \n\nOne of the things I used to do was ask a potential hire to make rust using Photoshop. I wasn't really interested in if they could make realistic rust or not, but I wanted to see what tools they used and if they were familiar enough with the program to at least attempt making rust.