Our Planets

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Our Planets

• From Mercury to Pluto

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Mercury

• 3,031 miles in diameter
• No moons
• 36 million mi. from the sun
• No rings
• Length of a year 88 days
• Gray in color

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Venus

• 7,521 miles in diameter
• No moons
• 67 million mi. from the sun
• No rings
• Length of a year 243 days
• Yellow, brown, and white in color

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Earth

• 7,926 mi. in diameter
• One moon
• 93 million mi. from the sun
• No rings
• Length of a year 365.25 days
• Blue and white in color

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Mars

• 4,222 mi. in diameter
• Two moons
• 142 million mi. from the sun
• No rings
• Length of a year 687 days
• Red in color

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Jupiter

• 88,849 mi. in diameter
• At least 16 moons
• 484 million mi. from the sun
• Two rings
• Length of a year 12 Earth years
• Brown with tan stripes

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Saturn

• 74,899 mi. in diameter
• At least 17 moons
• 888 million mi. from the sun
• Too many rings to count
• Length of a year 29.5 Earth years
• Yellow and Brown in color

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Uranus

• 31,764 mi. in diameter
• At least 15 moons
• 1.8 billion mi. from the sun
• 10 rings
• Length of a year 84 Earth years
• Green in color

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Neptune

• 30,776 mi. in diameter
• 8 moons
• 2.7 billion mi. from the sun
• 4 rings
• Length of a year 165 Earth years
• Greenish blue in color

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Pluto

• 1,420 mi. in diameter
• 1 moon
• 3.5 billion mi. from the sun
• No rings
• Length of a year 248 Earth years
• Gray in color

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Did you know?

• Mercury has no water, no air, and no moon.
• Venus is covered with thick, poisonous, acid
  clouds.

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• Earth is the only planet with living organisms
  and flowing water.
• One canyon on Mars is 10 times longer and 3 times
  deeper than the Grand Canyon on Earth.

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• The big red spot on Jupiter is really a huge
  storm of swirling gas.
• Saturn is made of materials that are lighter than
  water. If there were a bathtub big enough it
  could float.

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Uranus is lying on its side. Scientists think an
asteroid could have knocked it over.
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Neptunes moon,Triton, orbits in the opposite
direction from the planets spin.
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Every 248 years Plutos orbit takes it inside the
orbit of Neptune, which makes it the eighth
planet for a while.