The 9 Planets

Inner Planets	Outer Planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars	Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Made of rocks	Made of gases
Has an atmosphere	Do not have a suitable atmosphere for living things to survive
Temperature is hotter	Temperature is colder

MERCURY

• Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system.
• The temperature is too hot to support life.
• It is  the closest planet to the sun. 
• It is also very close to the same size as the moon.

 VENUS

• Venus is called the evening star because to us on earth it is so bright.
• Its also call Earth's twin because it is almost the same size as Earth and it looks identical.
• It is the closest to earth but it does not have water and life on Venus.
• Venus gets so hot during the day it can melt a lead cannonball.
• It gets up to 484 degrees celcius on the side facing the sun.
• Venus gets so hot because it has clouds that circle the planet with heat inside of the clouds.
• This makes it hotter than Mercury.
• Venus orbits the sun slowly. It also has alot of thunderstorms.

EARTH

• Earth is the only planet known to have life.
• Most of earth is covered by water.
• The rest is covered by land, mountains, and valleys.
• Earth is the third closest planet to the sun.
• It is covered by many oxygens mostly nitrogen and oxygen.
• The atmosphere is what gives us air to breathe, thats why we live on planet Earth.
• The Earth orbits around the sun.
• It takes one year to completely rotate the sun.
• It also rotates and spins on its axis.
• Each day it spins around one whole time.
• The tilt in the axis is responsible of are seasons. Otherwise it would be the same temperature all year long.

MARS

• Mars is called the red planet bacuse it is red.
• On Mars it can get very cold. On its hot days it is still cold.
• They have poles just like earth. North and South.
• During the martian winter, ice caps can be seen at the poles.
• Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos which have unusual shapes.
• Scientists believe that these potato shaped moons were astroids captured by Mars' gravitational pull.
  

JUPITER

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System.
• It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined.

SATURN

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
• Named after the Roman god Saturn, its astronomical symbol represents the god's sickle.
• Has three wide rings. 
• They can be seen with a telescope. It composed mostly of ice particles and some debris.

URANUS

• Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
• It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. 
• It is a kind of watery planet, pretty far away from the Sun.
• It is the coldest planet in the Solar System.

NEPTUNE

• The Planet Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun.
• It is also known as the Blue Giant.
• Neptune is the fourth and outermost of the gas giant planets and also has rings.
• Its atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium.
• In Roman mythology Neptune was the god of the Sea.
• Neptune and Uranus are much alike.
• It is covered with a blue ocean of liquid methane.

PLUTO

• Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun so the temprature is very low and it is very cold.