This document provides brief summaries about each planet in our solar system: - Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and experiences extreme temperatures ranging from 465° F during the day to -180° F at night. - Venus is covered in thick carbon dioxide clouds and has surface temperatures hot enough to cook food within minutes, making it a deadly world. - Mars once had oceans and water features but is now very dry, though it has the solar system's largest volcano and canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon.

1. By Matthew Hollingworth
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2. Mercury
Mercury is the closet planet to the sun, so it
extremely hot. Its maximum temperature is 465°!
Mercury has 176 days of sunlight & 176 days of
darkness
If you put a tin of baked beans on mercury, it would
explode and the beans would burn
At night the temperature is -180°!From one extreme
to the other!

3. Venus is a deadly world where the surface temperature
is hot enough to cook a meal in mere minutes.
Venus is just like the Earth, but it is like a Earth that’s
gone wrong.
Venus is full of thick clouds of carbon dioxide, it is a
deadly planet.

4. The Earth population is 6,840,507,000 as of 2010
The Earth is travelling through space at a speed of almost
30km a second!
The Earth has one moon. Its name is Luna.
For the earth to go around the earth, it takes 365 days,
that’s a year!
The time it takes the Earth to spin, and entire day would
of passed

5. Mars once had rivers, streams, lakes,
and even an ocean.
Mars has higher mountains, and deeper
canyons than any other planet.
The largest canyon on Mars would
stretch from New York City to Los
Angeles on the Earth. That makes the
Grand Canyon look tiny.
It also has the Solar System's biggest
volcano, Olympus Mons, which is nearly
3 times larger than Mount Everest.

6. Jupiter
You can see four of Jupiter's moons With a
pair of binoculars at night.
Also, Jupiter spins really fast; it only takes 10
hours to go from night to day on Jupiter.
For this reason, its middle has been stretched
out. Rather than round it is short and fat.
Kind of like when someone spins pizza dough
really fast to stretch it out.

7. Saturn
Saturn is the furthest planet from Earth
that can be seen without the help of a
telescope.
It is the second largest planet in our Solar
System
Saturn is the lightest planet that we know
of.
Its beautiful rings are 169,800 miles wide
but the rings are amazingly thin. If you
turned the rings on their side, they would
be able to fit between the goal posts on a
football field.

8. Uranus
Uranus
It is believed that Uranus is made up of rock
and ice and has a large rocky core.
There could possibly be trillions of large
diamonds in or on the surface of this planet.
Scientists also believe that on the surface of
Uranus there may be a huge ocean. And,
interestingly, it is thought that the
temperature of this ocean may be extremely
hot, maybe even as hot as 5000 degrees
Fahrenheit .

9. Neptune
For many, centuries people did not know
that this planet even existed. It was
discovered by Johann Galle and Heinrich
D'Arrest in 1846.
Neptune is a very windy place. No other
planet in the Solar System has winds that
are as strong as Neptune's. The winds near
the Great Dark Spot were believed to have
reached nearly 1,200 miles per hour