☺First planet from the sun.☺There are no moons on

Mercury.☺There are no rings on

Mercury.☺88 days in a year.☺59 Earth days in a day.

►Mercury is only visible in twilight hours.

►Mercury looks small even through a telescope.

►Even though its small it’s heavy.

> Second planet from the sun.

> There are no moons on Venus.

> There are no rings on Venus.

> There are 224.3 days in one year.

> 243 Earth days in one day.

☼It’s the brightest object in the night sky after the moon.

☼Its average distance between the sun is 68 million miles.

☼It’s sometimes called Earth’s sister.

Third planet from the sun.There is one moon on Earth.There are no rings on Earth.There are 365.3 days in one

year.24 hours in 1 day.

It is 93 million miles from the sun.There is no other planet the same

distance from the sun.Its atmosphere is made of gases

and bits of dust and water.The land of ours is always

changing.

♦ Fourth planet from the sun.

♦ There are two moons on Mars.

♦ There are no rings on Mars.

♦ 687 days in one year.

♦ 24.5 hours in one day.

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

It looks like a bright star in the night sky.

It is sometimes called the “Red Planet”.

The Romans named Mars after their god of war.

♣Fifth planet from the sun.

♣At least sixteen moons on Jupiter.

♣2 rings are around Jupiter.

♣12 Earth days in a year.

♣9.8 hours in a day.

♠ If it were hollow 1,300 Earths could fit inside.

♠ No one has seen its surface.

♠ Its atmosphere is mostly hydrogen gas.

♠ Its “surface” is an ocean of liquid hydrogen that covers the entire planet.

↔Sixth planet from the sun.

↔There are seventeen moons around Saturn.

↔There are many rings around Saturn.

↔29.5 Earth years in one year.

↔10.7 hours in one day.

Saturn looks like a faint star In the night sky.

It doesn’t have much mass.If it were hollow 833 Earths

could fit inside.If you could imagine putting it

on a vast ocean it would float.

oSeventh planet from the sun.

oAt least 15 moons around Uranus.

o10 rings around Uranus.

o84 Earth days in a year.

o17 hours in one day.

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Eighth planet from the sun.There are 8 moons on

Neptune.4 rings are around Neptune.165 Earth years in a year.16 hours in one day.

☻It can’t be seen from Earth by the unaided eye.

☻It was named after the Roman god of the sea.

☻It is 2.8 billion miles away from the sun.

☻If Neptune were hollow 42 Earths could fit inside.