Planets Elliott Bertram

Planets Elliott Bertram

mercury Mercury is the closet planet to the sun .

Mercury moves a kilometre a second.

On the dark side of mercury it is very cold.

The sunny side of mercury it is very hot

Venus 

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Venus and earth are the same size so you would weigh the same Venus is the brightest planet in the solar system Venus is earth sister Venus lies much closer to the sun than are planet

Earth 

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The Earth is the biggest of all the terrestrial planets Scientists use the Earth to study all the other . planets Our planet is an oasis of life in an otherwise desolate universe.

The Earth has one moon. Its name is Luna.

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Mars was the Roman god of war You may sometimes hear Mars referred to as the "Red Planet."

Mars has two moons, their names are Deimos and Phobos.

Mars has higher mountains, and deeper canyons than any other planet.

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Jupiter is by far the largest planet in our Solar System Did you know Jupiter has rings 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

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Because Saturn is bigger than the Earth, you would weigh more on Saturn than you do here.

In many ways, Saturn is similar to Jupiter, but it is much smaller.

Saturn has 53 official moons Saturn is the furthest planet from Earth that can be seen without the help of a telescope.

Uranus It would take you many years to fly a rocket to Uranus.

Uranus also has rings, Uranus has 27 moons. ď Ź Uranus is almost identical to the planet Neptune.

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At first, Neptune was only the god of water Neptune is a very windy place Neptune has six rings which circle the planet Neptune has 13 moons

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Pluto is so small you would be very light if you visited.

Pluto was the only planet to be named by a kid Pluto is smaller than 7 of the moons in the Solar System The only spacecraft to get somewhat close to Pluto was the Hubble Space Telescope.