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Solar System
Luis Madrid
Project Science
1-6-13
Our Solar System
Mercury
Mercury
• Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System also the smallest, and
its orbit is the most eccentric of the eight planets. It orbits the Sun once in
about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two
orbits.
 Radius: 1,516 miles
 Distance from Sun: 35,980,000 miles
 Surface area: 74,800,000 km
 Length of day: 58 earth days
Venus
Venus
• Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.
The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
 Radius: 6,052 km
 Distance from the sun: 67,240,000 Miles
 Surface area: 184080000 Miles
 Length of days: 243 Earth days
Earth
Earth
• Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifthlargest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of
the Solar System's four terrestrial planets.
– Radius: 3,959 miles
– Distance from the sun: 92,960,000 miles
– Surface area: 196,900,000 sq miles
– Length of days: 24 Hours
Mars
Mars
• Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and also the second smallest planet
in the Solar System. Mars is named after the Roman god of war, it is often
described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface
gives it a reddish color to it.
 Radius: 2,106 miles
 Distance from the sun: 141,600,000 miles
 Surface area:55,907,000 square miles
 Length of days:1d 0h 40m
Jupiter
Jupiter
• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet out Solar
System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but
is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar
System combined.
 Radius: 44 423.0693 miles
 Distance from the sun: 483,800,000 miles
 Surface area: 24,007,700,000 square miles
 Length of days:9 hours and 55 minutes
Saturn
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in
the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god Saturn, its
astronomical symbol represents the god's sickle.
 Radius: 37 448.799 miles
 Distance From the sun: 890,700,000 miles
 Surface area: 886,489,415 miles
 Length of days: 10h 39m
Uranus
Uranus
• Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest
planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar
System.
 Radius: 165,500 miles
 Distance from the sun: 1,787,000,000 miles
 Surface area: 3,133,400,000 square miles
 Length of days: 17 hours, 14 minutes and 24 seconds
Neptune
Neptune
• Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar
System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest
by mass.
 Radius: 15,299 miles
 Distance from the sun: 2,798,000,000 miles
 Surface area: 2.9 billion square miles
 Length of days: 16.11 hours
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