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♣First planet from the sun.
♣Mercury has no moons.
♣Mercury has no rings.
♣Mercury has 88 days in a year.
♣One day on Mercury is 59 days
on Earth.
♠ Mercury sometimes is brighter than any
other star.
♠ Its average distance from the sun is 36
million miles.
♠ Mercury is an almost airless planet.
♠ All the facts about Mercury come from
one probe.
♣Second planet from the sun.
♣Venus has no moons.
♣Venus has no rings.
♣One year is 224.7.
♣One day is 243
Earth days.
♥ Venus is the brightest object in the night
sky after the moon.
♥ Because it’s so brilliant, it is sometimes
called the Evening Star or the Morning
Star.
♥ Its average distance from the sun is 68
million miles.
♥ Venus is sometimes called earth’s sister.
۫ The surface of Venus is incredibly hot as
much as 900° F day & night.
♣Third planet from the sun.
♣Earth has 1 moon.
♣Earth has no rings.
♣One year is 365.3.
♣One day is 24 hours.
♦ Many years ago people thought Earth was
flat.
♦ Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun.
♦ Earth’s atmosphere is made of gases & bits
of dust & water.
♦ Earth is like a giant magnet.
♦ The lands on earth’s surface are
always changing .
♣Fourth planet from the sun.
♣Mars has 2 moons.
♣Mars has no rings.
♣One year has 687 days.
♣One day has 24.5 Earth hours.
☼Mars is more than 140 million miles from
the sun.
☼It’s 4,218 miles across.
☼Mars was very hot inside.
☼Mars is a dusty planet.
☼Millions of years ago when it was a young
planet it may even have had oceans.
♪ Fifth planet from the sun.
♪ At least 16 moons.
♪ It has 2 rings.
♪ One year is 4,280 days.
♪ It takes 9.8 hours to spin on its
axis.
♣It’s about 480 million miles from the
sun.
♣One mystery on Jupiter is the Great
Red Spot.
♣The temperature here is very cold.
♣The planet is very hot in its center.
♣If you weigh 100lb on Earth you
would weigh 264lb on Jupiter.
♫6th planet from the sun.
♫It has at least 17 moons.
♫It has 8 rings.
♫It takes 12,688.5 days for one
year.
♫It takes 10.7 Earth days to spin
once on its axis.
♣ It’s about 890 million miles from the sun.
♣ It takes about thirty years to orbit
around the sun.
♣ If you could find an ocean large enough
Saturn would float on the water.
♣ There are so many rings that they look
like the grooves in a phonographs
record.
☻7th planet from the sun.
☻It has at least 15 moons.
☻It has 10 rings.
☻It takes 30,660 years to circle the
sun.
☻One day is17 hours long.
▲It’s about one & three quarters billion miles
from the sun.
▲Uranus lies on its side.
▲Thick blue-green clouds blow across the
surface at 200 miles per hour.
▲Temperatures on the top of the clouds are
over 350۫° F.
▲Astronomers once thought Uranus had 9
rings but it had 10 rings.
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planet from the sun.
◄It has 8 moons.
◄It has 4 rings.
◄One year is 59,355 days.
◄One day is 16 hours.
♣ It’s about 2.8 billion miles from the sun.
♣ South of the Great Dark Spot is a bright white
cloud the scientists have nicknamed “Scooter”.
♣ The inner two thirds of the planet is 2 mixtures of
hydrogen, helium, ammonia, & water.
♣ Before Voyager 2, scientist thought it only had 2
moons Triton & Nereid.