PLANTETS Kyle Davies

PLANTETS

BY KYLE DAVIES

MERCURY 

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Mercury is the closest to the sun.

Mercury’s sunny side has a temperature rising to 400 calius or 750 calius Fahrenheit.

Mercury’s dark side however is very cold indeed with the tempiture going down to 200 calsius or 328 calsius fahrenheit.

From messanger we know that mercury has a large number of very deep and irregler pits.

Venus 

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Because venus is so close to the earth,it appears as the bright’s in the night sky.

The planet venus has no long been of the most misunderstood of all inner planets.

Like earth venus has an atmasphere.

However, venus’ atmasphere is far thicker than that on earth.

earth 

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The earth has one moon. it's name is luna.

Our planet is an oasis of life in an otherwise desolate universe.

The earths tempiture ,weather, atmosphere and many other factors are just right to keep us alive.

Earth is a small, rocky planet witch supports variety of life.

mars 

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Mars is a small, rocky planet which is cold and lifeless.

Very strong winds and vast dust storms sometimes blow through the entire planet for months Mars has two tiny moons which orbit very close to the surface. Their names are phobos and deinos.

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

Jupiter 

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The main feature of the giant planet , Jupiter is it’s great red spot.

Jupiter is the large planet in our solar system.

Jupiter is a stormy planet. there are storms throughout the atmasphere.

Jupiter rotates faster than any other planet in our solar system.

Saturn 

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In many ways, Saturn is similar to Jupiter, but it is much smaller. It is the second largest planet in our Solar System and it is a gas giant like Jupiter.

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

Saturn is most well-known for its rings.

However, it is not the only planet with rings.

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings.

Saturn is a favorite object for many observers. Its beautiful rings are 169,800 miles wide (approx 273,266 km).

Saturn is most well-known for its rings. However, it is not the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings.

Saturn is a favorite object for many observers. Its beautiful rings are 169,800 miles wide (approx 273,266 km).

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

Uranus Since Uranus spins on its side, its rings rotate up and over the planet instead of around the middle like the rings of Saturn and Neptune.

Uranus also has rings, though they don't stretch out as far as the rings of Saturn. The rings of Uranus are made up of black dust particles and large rocks.

Uranus has 27 moons. Five of these moons are large and the rest are smaller.

A day on Uranus is only about 17 hours. But the tilt of Uranus works out so that one

Neptune 

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Think a hurricane is scary? Imagine a hurricane with winds that go up to 2,100 km/hour. As you can probably imagine, scientists are puzzled how an icy cold planet like Neptune can get its cloud tops moving so fast.

At the top of its clouds, temperatures on Neptune can dip down to 51.7 Kelvin, or -221.4 degrees Celsius. That’s cold! Pluto gets colder, but then, Pluto isn’t a planet any more.

The only spacecraft that has ever visited Neptune was NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which visited the planet during its Grand Tour of the Solar System.

Voyager 2′s amazing photographs of Neptune might be all we get for decades.

Pluto 

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Although Pluto orbits the Sun and it’s round, it’s not a planet. And that’s because Pluto hasn’t cleared out its orbit of material. This was the reason that the International Astronomical Union chose to demote it from planet to dwarf planet in 2006.

You’d think that Charon orbits Pluto, but actually, Pluto and Charon orbit a common point in space. In the case of the Earth and the Moon, we actually orbit a common point, but that spot exists inside the Earth.

For most of its orbit, Pluto is more distant than Neptune, reaching out as far as 49 astronomical units (49 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun).

Pluto is small. How small?

Astronomers recently calculated that its mass is 1.31 x 1022 kg (less than 0.24% the mass of Earth). And its diameter is only 2,390 km across.