Sol system

The Sol System, otherwise referred to by UNSC personnel as the Solar System, is the home star system for Humans. The system's G-class star is named Sol, hence the system's name and the planets (and their moons) that orbit Sol are:

Major Planets and Moons

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth - The Human/UNSC headquarter.
  • Luna
• Mars
• Jupiter - A gas giant, Jupiter is the largest planet in the Sol System.
  • Io - The site of a UNSC listening post. On October 20, 2552, the listening post on Io detects 15 Covenant ships inbound under the command of the Prophet of Regret.
  • Europa - It contains a UNSC base. Spartans Linda and Will were once assigned to a mission on this satellite.
  • Ganymede - The EVA Armor was developed here.
• Saturn - A gas giant known for its clearly visible surrounding rings, unlike the other gas giants whose rings are rather dim. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Sol System.
• Uranus - An icy gas giant about twice as far away as Saturn from Sol.
• Neptune - Furthest away from Sol, it is another icy gas giant similar to Uranus.

Dwarf Planets

• Ceres- The largest asteroid to have been discovered by humanity.
• Eris- Currently the largest Dwarf Planet known. It is at almost 10% larger than Pluto in diameter.
• Pluto - Pluto Slipstream Monitoring Station Democritus. On November 3, 2552, the Monitoring Station detects Cortana's signal in Slipspace with Dr. Halsey's message to Lord Hood.

Trivia

• The Sol Sytem's name is most likely a derivation of the [http:www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System Solar System].

Links

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