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SOLAR SYSTEM

PICTURE OF SOLAR SYSTEM

PLANETS IN SOLAR SYSTEM

MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE

FACTS ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury has no atmosphere at all. Sunlight reflects off its surface, similar to how light is reflected directly off the Moon's surface. The lack of atmosphere means that sunlight cannot be spread through the atmosphere. The planet's sky is dark, just like the Moon's and, if you were able to stand on the side of the planet not facing the Sun, you would be able to see billions of stars in the sky.

FACTS ABOUT VENUS

If you were able to stand on the surface of Venus, it would feel like being 1 kilometre under the sea on Earth, a depth deep enough to sink a submarine. A person or a creature would immediately be crushed by Venus' amazingly strong pressure.

FACTS ABOUT EARTH

The length of time it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun is 365 and a quarter days. To make up this extra quarter which isn't counted at the end of a year, we have an extra day every four years on 29th February. The next Leap Year will be in 2012.

FACTS ABOUT MARS The Valles Marineris, the greatest

gorge on any planet in the Solar System, was caused when volcanoes erupting around it tore up the land, leaving a huge valley.

FACTS ABOUT JUPITER

Jupiter takes only 9 hours and 55 minutes to spin on its axis. This means a day on Jupiter is less than 10 hours long. Its fast rotation causes the planet to be squashed, being wider at the equator than from North to South.

FACTS ABOUT SATURN

Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System after Jupiter. It is so big that Earth could fit into it 755 times.

FACTS ABOUT URANUS

After Saturn, a space-craft would have to travel 1,500,000,000 kilometres to reach Uranus. This means the planet is almost twice the distance from the Sun than Saturn is.

FACTS ABOUT NEPTURN

Neptune's moon, Triton, is slowly getting closer to Neptune. Eventually, it will get so close that it may get torn apart by Neptune's gravity and possibly form rings more spectacular than Saturn's.

DWARF PLANET

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. This new class of worlds may offer some of the best evidence about the origins of our solar system. Pluto is also a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with thousands of miniature icy worlds, which formed early in the history of our solar system. These icy, rocky bodies are called Kuiper Belt objects or transneptunian objects.

PICTURE OF ALL DWARF PLANET

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