Our Solar SystemBeyond the

Sun and MoonBy: Kira Adams

Crescent Moon and Venus

• Mercury is the closet

planet to the sun

• Mercury’s diameter is

4,878 km

• Mercury’s diameter is

0.38 x Earth's

With no atmosphere,

there is a temperature difference of

about 600 degrees between the coldest spots and hottest spots

on Mercury.

Mercury

• Venus is the second planet

from the Sun

• The diameter of Venus is

12,104 km

• Venus is only slightly

smaller than our own

planet Earth

If you weigh 180 pounds

on the Earth, you would weigh 163 pounds on

Venus

Venus

• Earth is the third

planet from the sun

• Earth’s diameter is

12,756.28 km

Earth is about 4.5 to 4.6 billion years old

Diameter(km)

Length of year

Earth year(days)

Number of moons

Ring or No Rings

Mercury 4,878 .24(88)

0 NO

Venus 12, 104 .62(224.7

0 NO

Earth 12, 756 1(365.24)

1 NO

Mars 6,787 1.88(686.9)

2 NO

Jupiter 142, 800 11.9 63 YES

Saturn 120, 000 29.4 47 YES

Uranus 51,118 84 27 YES

Neptune 49,528 164.8 13 YES

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Credits• http://www.arcadiastreet.com/cgvistas/

venus_002.htm • http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

ap090306.html • http://mayda.com/astro/Img/M31_LRGB-03C-

1k.jpg• http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/table.ht

ml• http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php

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