The solar systemBy Matthew Hollingworth

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Mercury

Mercury is the closet planet to the sun, so it extremely hot. Its maximum temperature is 465°!Mercury has 176 days of sunlight & 176 days of darknessIf you put a tin of baked beans on mercury, it would explode and the beans would burnAt night the temperature is -180°!From one extreme to the other!

Mercury

Venus

Venus is a deadly world where the surface temperature is hot enough to cook a meal in mere minutes. Venus is just like the Earth, but it is like a Earth that’s gone wrong.Venus is full of thick clouds of carbon dioxide, it is a deadly planet.

EarthThe Earth population is 6,840,507,000 as of 2010The Earth is travelling through space at a speed of almost 30km a second!The Earth has one moon. Its name is Luna.For the earth to go around the earth, it takes 365 days, that’s a year!The time it takes the Earth to spin, and entire day would of passed

The Earth population is 6,840,507,000 as of 2010The Earth is travelling through space at a speed of almost 30km a second!The Earth has one moon. Its name is Luna.For the earth to go around the earth, it takes 365 days, that’s a year!The time it takes the Earth to spin, and entire day would of passed

MarsMars once had rivers, streams, lakes, and even an ocean. Mars has higher mountains, and deeper canyons than any other planet. The largest canyon on Mars would stretch from New York City to Los Angeles on the Earth. That makes the Grand Canyon look tiny. It also has the Solar System's biggest volcano, Olympus Mons, which is nearly 3 times larger than Mount Everest.

Jupiter

You can see four of Jupiter's moons With a pair of binoculars at night. Also, Jupiter spins really fast; it only takes 10 hours to go from night to day on Jupiter. For this reason, its middle has been stretched out. Rather than round it is short and fat. Kind of like when someone spins pizza dough really fast to stretch it out.

SaturnSaturn is the furthest planet from Earth that can be seen without the help of a telescope.It is the second largest planet in our Solar SystemSaturn is the lightest planet that we know of.Its beautiful rings are 169,800 miles wide but the rings are amazingly thin. If you turned the rings on their side, they would be able to fit between the goal posts on a football field.

UranusUranus

It is believed that Uranus is made up of rock and ice and has a large rocky core.

There could possibly be trillions of large diamonds in or on the surface of this planet.Scientists also believe that on the surface of Uranus there may be a huge ocean. And, interestingly, it is thought that the temperature of this ocean may be extremely hot, maybe even as hot as 5000 degrees Fahrenheit .

NeptuneFor many, centuries people did not know that this planet even existed. It was discovered by Johann Galle and Heinrich D'Arrest in 1846. Neptune is a very windy place. No other planet in the Solar System has winds that are as strong as Neptune's. The winds near the Great Dark Spot were believed to have reached nearly 1,200 miles per hour