2. • Mercury • My
• Venus • Very
• Earth • Educated
• Mars • Mother
• Jupiter • Just
• Saturn • Served
• Uranus • Us
• Neptune • Nutella
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3. • The sun appears 2 and a half times larger in
Mercury's sky compared to the Earth's.
• If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would
only weigh 37 pounds on Mercury.
• Because of the lack of atmosphere, Mercury's sky
is black and the stars probably can be seen during
the day.
• Because of a lack of an atmosphere, the
temperature rises above 800 F while on the dark
side it falls rapidly to -300 F.
• The surface of Mercury is heavily cratered,
looking much like our Moon.
• The sun's rays are about seven times as strong on
Mercury as they are on the Earth.
Mercury
4. • Venus is known as Earths' twin sister because of
its similar size and proximity to each other.
• Its atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon
dioxide.
• Venus rotates so slowly that it orbits the sun
faster than it can make one whole rotation on its
axis. In other words, Venus has a longer day
than year.
• It takes 243 days for Venus to make a rotation.
• And it takes 224 days for Venus to orbit around
the sun.
• Venus is the most widely explored planet aside
from our own Earth. Numerous space probes
have been sent to Venus to gather data and some
have landed on the surface
Venus
5. • The Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion
years old. It travels through space at
660,000 miles per hour.
• The oldest rocks in the world, the so-
called St. Peter and St. Paul stones in the
Atlantic Ocean, are 4 billion years old.
• The Earth weighs
6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
• The earth rotates on its axis more slowly
in March than in September.
• If the Earth were compressed to a sphere
with a 2-inch diameter, its surface would
be as smooth as a billiard ball's
Earth
6. • Mars is red because it is rusty. There is a lot of
iron in the soil, and the air on Mars has made it
turn red-just like rusty iron on Earth.
• One of Mars' moons, Phobos, is moving closer
and closer to Mars. Scientists think that one day
it will crash into Mars.
• Mars has the tallest Volcano in the Solar System
named Olympus Mons and it is 15 miles high
which is three times the height of Mount
Everest.
• Like Earth, the poles of Mars are covered in ice.
The ice becomes thicker in the winter.
• Mars orbits the sun every 687 Earth days
Mars
7. • If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you
would weigh 264 pounds on Jupiter.
• Jupiter has a mass 318 times greater than
the Earth's and a diameter that is 11 times
larger.
• The mass of Jupiter is 70% of the total
mass of all the other planets in our Solar
System.
• Jupiter's volume is large enough to
contain 1,300 planets the size of Earth.
• Jupiter rotates faster than any planet in
the Solar System
Jupiter
8. • A 100 pound object on Earth would
weight 116 pounds on Saturn.
• Saturn has the lowest density of all the
planets in the solar system. It is so light
that it could actually float on water if
there was an ocean big enough to hold it.
• It takes about 29.46 Earth years for
Saturn to orbit around our sun.
• Saturn's rings are made up of billions of
pieces of rocks and dust.
• Saturn has over 30 known Satellites, but
many of them are small and faint
Saturn
9. • Because of the strange way it spins,
nights on some parts of Uranus can last
for more than 40 years.
• The planet's most extraordinary feature is
the tilt of its rotational axis, which is
almost perpendicular to the plane of the
eclipitc, which means that it alternately
has its north pole and its south pole
turned towards the sun.
• Even though Neptune is further from the
sun, Uranus is the coldest planet in the
solar system.
• Uranus has 27 known satellites
Uranus
10. • Neptune is so far away that it took the
space probe Voyager 2, 12 years to reach
it.
• Neptune is the stormiest planet. The
winds there can blow up to 1,240 miles
per hour, that is three times as fast as
Earth's Hurricanes.
• The planet has has a system of thin dark
rings but they are incomplete rings and
are best described as arcs.
• Neptune is a sea blue color due to the
methane gas in its atmosphere
Neptune
