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    This document provides information about the planets in our solar system. It includes 3 sentences describing key details about each planet: Mercury is the smallest planet and closest to the sun with the fastest orbit. Venus has the densest atmosphere and hottest surface of any planet. Earth is the only known place where life exists and has seasons due to its tilted axis.

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    This document provides information about the planets in our solar system. It includes 3 sentences describing key details about each planet: Mercury is the smallest planet and closest to the sun with the fastest orbit. Venus has the densest atmosphere and hottest surface of any planet. Earth is the only known place where life exists and has seasons due to its tilted axis.

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    Exploring the Planets of the Solar System

    (click a planet to see more)


    Mercury
    Mercury is the smallest planet and is also the closest
    planet to the sun. It also has the fastest orbit.

    Mercury rotates so slowly that a day on Mercury is longer


    than a year on Mercury.

    Mercury was named after the Greek god Hermes, who


    was the messenger of the gods.

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    Venus
    The atmosphere on Venus is so dense that
    the pressure on the planet’s surface is
    about the same as the pressure under
    3,000 feet of water on Earth.

    Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar


    System, with an average temperature of
    over 850 degrees Fahrenheit!

    Aside from Earth’s moon, Venus is the


    brightest object we can see in the night sky.

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    Earth
    Earth is the only known place where life
    exists. Life first appeared around 4 billion
    years ago.

    Earth is the largest and densest of the


    four rocky planets.

    Earth’s axis is tilted about 23 degrees,


    and this tilt is what creates the seasons.

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    Mars
    A year on Mars is almost twice as long as a year
    on Earth, but a day on Mars is almost exactly the
    same as a day on Earth.

    Gravity on Mars is about ⅓ as strong as gravity on


    Earth.

    Scientists haven’t found any concrete proof of life,


    but some scientists suspect that life may once
    have existed on the red planet.

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    Jupiter
    Jupiter is by far the largest planet in the Solar System.
    In fact, it is more than twice the size of all of the other
    planets combined!

    The Great Red Spot is a giant storm that is believe to be


    at least 360 years old.

    Jupiter has at least 79 moons. The largest moon,


    Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury.

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    Saturn
    Saturn’s famous rings are mostly composed of small
    ice chunks, only a couple of meters in length.

    Twenty new moons were discovered around Saturn in


    2019. That brings the total to 82 moons, which is the
    most of any planet.

    The largest moon is Titan. Titan is larger than Mercury


    and is the only moon in the Solar System to have a
    substantial atmosphere.

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    Uranus
    Discovered in 1781, Uranus was the first planet
    discovered using a telescope.

    Uranus and Neptune are known as the “ice giants”


    because they have a lot more ice and less gas
    than the “gas giants” Jupiter and Saturn.

    Uranus and Venus are the only planets to rotate


    east to west instead of west to east. Uranus also
    rotates on its side. Its north and south poles are
    where most planets have their equators.
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    Neptune
    Neptune is the farthest planet from
    the Sun.

    It was first discovered by


    mathematical models, not by direct
    observation.

    Winds over 1,000 miles per hour have


    been recorded, making Neptune the
    windiest planet in the solar system.

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