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Mercury

• Mercury is a small planet.
• It is the first planet from the Sun
• It has no moons.
• Mercury’s surface is very hot the daytime temperature is over 400 degrees Celsius.

• At night the temperatures dropping to -180 degrees Celsius.

• Mercury has no atmosphere.
• It has no water and no air on the surface.

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Venus

• Venus is the second planet from the sun.
• It Has no moons.
• Venus and Earth are similar in size, which is the reason Venus is called Earth's sister planet.
• Venus has more volcanoes than any other planet.
• The temperature on the surface of Venus is about 460° Celsius.
• The atmosphere on Venus is composed of carbon dioxide.

Earth

• Earth is the third planet from the sun.
• It has one moon.
• It is the only planet in the solar system that has life.
• The Earth is larger than Mercury, Venus and Mars.
• The Earth’s atmosphere has protected the Earth and allowed life to flourish.

Mars

• Mars is the fourth planet from the sun.
• It is the second smallest planet in the solar system.
• It has two moons.
• Mars has many massive volcanoes.
• Mars has seasons like Earth too.
• Mars has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide.

Jupiter

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun.
• Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is so big that more than 1300 Earths could fit inside it.
• It has 79 moons.
• Jupiter is the stormiest planet in the Solar System.
• Jupiter is the first of the “gas giants”.
• Jupiter is made of hydrogen, helium, methane and ammonia

Saturn

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.
• It has 62 moons!
• The rings were first seen by Galileo in 1610 through a telescope.
• The rings are made up of millions of ice crystals.
• Saturn is not a peaceful planet. Storm winds race around the atmosphere at 800kmp/h.

Uranus

• Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun.
• It has 27 moons.
• Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system.
• Uranus is the smallest of the four “giants”.
• Uranus was first seen by William Herschel in 1781.

Neptune

• It is the eighth planet in the solar system.
• It is the farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System.
• It has 13 moons.
• Neptune is one of the four “gas giants”.
• Neptune suffers the most violent weather in our Solar System.

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