The planet Venus is the second planet from the Sun, only about

2/3 as far from the Sun as Earth, and appears as a bright star in the
sky. It orbits the Sun once every 225 Earth days.
It is nearly the same size as Earth, and began with almost the
same composition. However, it receives much more heat from the Sun,
and as a result developed a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere that traps
heat, making the surface of the planet hellishly hot (about 860°F) and
with a pressure 90 times as high as at sea level on Earth. It has no
oceans, and in fact no liquid water. It has practically no magnetic field.
Due to some primordial event, Venus has lost its counter-clockwise
rotation and instead turns slowly clockwise, once about every 243
Earth days.
The surface consists of generally smooth volcanic plains with

VENUS two major highlands or continents rising from them. Venus has a wide
variety of volcanic landforms, but there are no tectonic plates.
More importantly, it does not have the capability of harboring
lifeforms as are found on Earth.

is named after the messenger of the gods of ancient Rome.

It is the smallerst planet. It’s surface temperature is about
427 C. Mercury is a dry, barren planet. Because it has
very little atmosphere, falling meteors would crash full
MERCU force into its surface.lifeforms as are found on Earth.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Since the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mariner 4 spacecraft
became the first to achieve a successful flyby of Mars and send
back images of its surface in 1965, many others have flown by,
orbited and landed on the planet. These missions have yielded
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liquid, hydrogen and helium. Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
for NASA's potential manned missions to Mars.
The four largest are the Galilean moons, name after
Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer who first observed
the Galilean moons in 1610. A thin ring of fine dust
particles surrounds Jupiter.
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has a hot, solid inner core of iron and rocky material. Its
temperature averages 178 C. Seven rings encircle Saturn at
the equator. The rings are thin and flat. Each rings consists of
ice particles arranged in ringlets and bands. Some rings are
wary while others are sharp-edge. Saturn has 18 moons.
Phoebe is the farthest moon. It orbits Saturn at a distance of
about 12,950,000 kilometers. Saturn’s largest satellite is
Titan. It is 1 ½ time as large as the earth‘s moon. It is even
larger than Mercury and Pluto. Titan has an atmosphere
SATUR consisting mostly of nitrogen..

was discovered in 1781 by Willian Herschel. Unlike

Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus does not seem to have an
internal source of heat. The planet’s temperature is about
216 C. Uranus has 15 moons. They all orbit near the
plane of the
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URANU Neptune has a ring system. It consists of one faint ring and three
bright rings. Neptune has eight moons. One of these is triton. It is
the only major satellite that orbits opposite the planet it orbits
around. Triton has the coldest temperature in the solar system, 235
C.

NEPTU
 The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Sun has a diameter of
about 1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi) (about 109 Earths), and by itself
accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass; the remainder consists of
the planets (including Earth), asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and dust in orbit.[9]
About three-quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while most of the

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rest is helium. Less than 2% consists of other elements, including iron, oxygen,
carbon, neon, and others.
SUN

is the only planet known to have living things. Its atmosphere is

composed mostly of oxygen and nitrogen. The earth’s atmosphere
protects it from the sun’s harmful rays. The atmosphere also keeps
heat as well as water from escaping into space. Earth is a rocky
planet. Beneath its surface lie solid iron and nickel surrounded by
rocks. Temperatures range from as high as 7,000 C to about 870
C.

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