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By Chloe McClenaghan and Charis Wilson! • Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Its surface has many thousands of impact craters as a result of being bombarded by objects since the solar system's early days. Since Mercury has no protective atmosphere, the temperature on the surface ranges from extremely hot on the side facing the Sun to extremely cold on the side that faces away from the Sun. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. • Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. This is one of those cases where beauty is only skin deep, though, as the surface of Venus is a very unpleasant place featuring very high temperatures, winds that blow hundreds of miles per hour and an atmosphere of sulfuric acid. Venus is an example of runaway greenhouse effect on a planetary scale. Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System, in both diameter and mass. It is also referred to as "the Earth", "Planet Earth", "Gaia", "Terra", "the World", and "the Blue Planet". • Our home planet is a very interesting place. From space, it looks like a big blue marble, with the constantly changing cloud patterns giving our home planet an ever changing appearance. There are a number of things that make our planet unique in the solar system. • • The Red Planet is named after the Roman god of war. It's distinctive rust colour is easily seen through a small telescope. The surface of Mars features many mountains, canyons and even polar ice caps that look a lot like those here on Earth. In ancient times, Mars may have harboured some kind of life, and there is a lot of research going on now trying to get a definitive answer as to whether we are the only life forms in the solar system.It is the fourth planet from the Sun. • Jupiter is the Fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in our solar system. It is two and a half times as massive as all the other planets in our Solar system combined.It has at least sixtyone moons and features the Great Red Spot, which is a huge "storm" that has been observed from here on Earth for over three hundred years. Jupiter is a gas planet so it is very extremely hard to land on. • Saturn is one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system. It's fascinating system of rings have been a source of wonder since we first saw them with the earliest telescopes. Although the rings look fairly simple through a small telescope, spacecraft pictures have revealed that what looks like two rings through a telescope is actually hundreds of individual ring systems. In addition, Saturn has so many moons that it is like a miniature solar system.Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. • Uranus is one of the giant gas planets in the solar system. Its mysterious bluegreen colour provides very few clues as to what is going on underneath the surface clouds. Uranus also has a very faint ring system that we didn't know existed until the planet was visited by the Voyager spacecraft. It is the seventh planet from the Sun. Neptune was the last stop the Voyager mission made before if left our solar system. What we found out from Voyager was that Neptune has winds that blow hundreds of miles per hour and a moon that features "geysers" of nitrogen that erupt and leave dark marks on the surface. Neptune is the eight's planet from the Sun. • Pluto is so far away that even the mighty Hubble Space Telescope can't get us a very good picture. The image at right is the best image to date we have of this distant world. Very little is known about Pluto except that it is very, very cold and exceptionally dark. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, It was Hard naming the planet, but they eventually settled on Pluto. The dwarf planet is named for the Roman god Pluto, which is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology.Pluto is the last planet from the sun.