The Sun is at the center of the Solar System and is the source of light and heat for all the planets. Venus has toxic clouds that trap heat, bringing surface temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Earth is the only known planet that sustains life and has one moon. Mars has a reddish appearance and two small moons. Jupiter is the largest planet and has swirling storms visible from space. Saturn has rings and is the second largest planet in the Milky Way.

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2. The Sun is right in the centre of our Solar System. The Sun is the light source of all the planets in our solar system, the Milky Way. THE SUN

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4. Venus is the second closest planet to the sun. Venus’s poisonous clouds trap the suns heat letting it’s temperature’s reach up to 400F. Venus

5. Earth is the only planet that sustains life. Earth orbits around the Sun, but the Moon orbits around the Earth. Earth

6. Mars is nicknamed the red planet, because of its reddish-brown rocks. Mars has two moons called Deimos and Phobos. Mars

7. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. The planet has swirls if you look at it from space because of the storms. Jupitar

8. Some of Saturn’s moons are in its gigantic ring. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Milky way. Saturn

9. Uranus is the biggest of the gas planets. Uranus was the first planet discovered in modern times, it was discovered by William Herschel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March the 13 th , 1781 . Uranus

10. Neptune has been visited by only one space craft, Voyager on August 5 th 1989. Much of we know comes from that single encounter. But fortunately, recent ground-based and HST observations have added a great deal too. Neptune

11. Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is much smaller than any other planet and is now classified as the “Dwarf Planet.” Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar systems moons, witch are called (the moon, Io, Europa, Gannymede, Callisto, Titon and Triton.) Pluto

12. Gravity is a force that keeps the Earth in its orbit around the Sun, it also keeps us to the ground otherwise we would float of into space. Over 1.3 million Earths can fit in the Sun. Mercury's atmosphere is so thin Asteroids easily crash into Murcury leaving many craters. Space/earth Science

13. Rockets Apollo 11 Apollo 13 Ariane Soyuz