♣First planet from the sun.

♣Mercury has no moons.

♣Mercury has no rings.

♣Mercury has 88 days in a year.

♣One day on Mercury is 59 days on Earth.

♠ Mercury sometimes is brighter than any other star.

♠ Its average distance from the sun is 36 million miles.

♠ Mercury is an almost airless planet.

♠ All the facts about Mercury come from one probe.

♣Second planet from the sun.♣Venus has no moons.♣Venus has no rings.♣One year is 224.7.♣One day is 243 Earth days.

♥ Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the moon.

♥ Because it’s so brilliant, it is sometimes called the Evening Star or the Morning Star.

♥ Its average distance from the sun is 68 million miles.

♥ Venus is sometimes called earth’s sister.

The surface of Venus is incredibly hot as much as 900° F day & night.

♣Third planet from the sun.

♣Earth has 1 moon.

♣Earth has no rings.

♣One year is 365.3.

♣One day is 24 hours.

♦ Many years ago people thought Earth was flat.

♦ Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun.

♦ Earth’s atmosphere is made of gases & bits of dust & water.

♦ Earth is like a giant magnet.

♦ The lands on earth’s surface are always changing .

♣Fourth planet from the sun.

♣Mars has 2 moons.

♣Mars has no rings.

♣One year has 687 days.

♣One day has 24.5 Earth hours.

☼Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun.

☼It’s 4,218 miles across.

☼Mars was very hot inside.

☼Mars is a dusty planet.

☼Millions of years ago when it was a young planet it may even have had oceans.

♪Fifth planet from the sun.

♪At least 16 moons.

♪ It has 2 rings.

♪One year is 4,280 days.

♪ It takes 9.8 hours to spin on its axis.

♣It’s about 480 million miles from the sun.

♣One mystery on Jupiter is the Great Red Spot.

♣The temperature here is very cold.

♣The planet is very hot in its center.♣If you weigh 100lb on Earth you

would weigh 264lb on Jupiter.

♫6th planet from the sun.

♫It has at least 17 moons.

♫It has 8 rings.

♫It takes 12,688.5 days for one year.

♫It takes 10.7 Earth days to spin once on its axis.

♣ It’s about 890 million miles from the sun.

♣ It takes about thirty years to orbit around the sun.

♣ If you could find an ocean large enough

Saturn would float on the water.

♣ There are so many rings that they look like the grooves in a phonographs record.

☻7th planet from the sun.

☻It has at least 15 moons.

☻It has 10 rings.

☻It takes 30,660 years to circle the sun.

☻One day is17 hours long.

▲It’s about one & three quarters billion miles from the sun.

▲Uranus lies on its side.▲Thick blue-green clouds blow across the

surface at 200 miles per hour.▲Temperatures on the top of the clouds are

over 350 ° F.▲Astronomers once thought Uranus had 9

rings but it had 10 rings.

◄8th planet from the sun.

◄It has 8 moons.

◄It has 4 rings.

◄One year is 59,355 days.

◄One day is 16 hours.

♣ It’s about 2.8 billion miles from the sun.♣ South of the Great Dark Spot is a bright white

cloud the scientists have nicknamed “Scooter”.♣ The inner two thirds of the planet is 2 mixtures of

hydrogen, helium, ammonia, & water.♣ Before Voyager 2, scientist thought it only had 2

moons Triton & Nereid.