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Mercury

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System,[a] orbiting the Sun once
every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar
System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its
axis for every two orbits. The perihelion of Mercury's orbit precesses around the Sun
at an excess of 43 arcseconds per century; a phenomenon that was explained in the
20th century by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.[9]

Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is
named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the
brightest natural object in the night sky.

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after
theRoman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron
oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance.[11] Mars is a terrestrial
planet with a thinatmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact
craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.

Earth

Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight
planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's fourterrestrial planets. It is
sometimes referred to as the World, the Blue Planet,[note 6] or by its Latin name, Terra.[note 7]

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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System.[13] It
is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth of the Sun but is two and
a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined

Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System,
after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to
theGreek Cronus (the Titan father of Zeus) the Babylonian Ninurta and to
the Hindu Shani. Saturn's symbol represents the god' sickle

Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive
planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the
sky Uranus(Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός) the father of Cronus (Saturn) and grandfather
of Zeus (Jupiter).

Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for
the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-
largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive
than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and not as dense.

The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solar system. It is the largest
object and contains approximately 98% of the total solar system mass.
One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun's
disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths.

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