The Solar SystemThe Solar System

☼It’s first from the Sun.☼It has no moons.☼It has no rings.☼A year is 88 days.☼Rotation takes 59

days and nights.

☼Mercury is like Earth’s Moon.☼The surface

looks very much like the Moon’s.

☼Thousands of craters cover it.

☼It has no atmosphere.

☼It’s second from the Sun.

☼It has no moons.☼It has no rings.☼A year is 224.7 days.☼Rotation takes 243

days and nights.

☼It’s the hottest planet .☼It has clouds.☼It’s too hot to rain.☼Venus’ atmosphere

has a lot of carbon dioxide in it.

☼It’s third from the Sun.☼It has one moon.☼It has no rings.☼A year is 365.3 days.☼Rotation takes 24

hours.

☼If you look from space the oceans look like dark places.

☼Earth is about 93 million miles from the Sun.

☼If the Sun were any closer to the Earth the Earth would boil.

☼Earth is like a giant magnet.

☼It’s fourth from the Sun.

☼It has two moons.☼It has no rings.☼A year is 687 days.☼Rotation takes 24.5

hours.

☼Mars looks red because of all the rusty iron in the soil.

☼The sky looks pinkish because of the red dust in the air.

☼The four inner planets are hard and rocky.

☼Mars was once very hot.

☼It’s fifth from the Sun.☼It has about sixteen

moons.☼It has two rings.☼A year is 12 Earth

years.☼Rotation takes 9.8

hours.

☼It doesn’t have a ground you can land on because it’s a gas planet.

☼No one has ever seen the surface of Jupiter.

☼People can only see the tops of the clouds.

☼The clouds are always moving.

☼It’s sixth from the Sun.

☼It has seventeen moons.

☼It has many rings.☼A year is 29.5 Earth

years.☼Rotation takes 10.7

hours.

☼It has the largest ring.☼Saturn looks like a

faint star in the sky.☼It was named after

the roman god of farming.

☼Saturn is about 890 million miles from the Sun.

☼It’s seventh from the Sun.

☼It has about fifteen moons.

☼It has ten rings.☼A year is 84 Earth

years.☼Rotation takes 17

hours.

☼It lies on its side.☼Uranus is surrounded

by a strange magnetic field.

☼Its south pole is pointing at the Sun.

☼The magnetic fields’ shape is equally strange.

☼It’s eighth from the Sun.

☼It has eight moons.☼It has four rings.☼A year is165 Earth

years.☼Rotation takes 16

hours.

☼It has two storms of wind.☼Farther south is the

smaller dark spot 2 which is a storm.

☼Neptune has two dark storms that resemble Jupiter’s great red spot.

☼Neptune is about 2.8 billion miles from the Sun.