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    DISCOVERY

    FACTS ABOUT PLANET

    PLANETS
    • There are eight planets in our solar system. Planets are further divided
    into two types:

    • Terrestrial planets: Four closest to the sun planets. They have solid
    planetary systems, no rings, and a few or no moons.

    • Gaseous planets: They have many moons and mainly consist of gases
    and ice. They are giant planets.
    MERCURY
    • Smallest planet.
    • No moons.
    • Very hot surface and low gravity
    • It has no water or air.

    VENUS
    • It is named after the Roman goddess of
    love and beauty.
    • it is the second planet.
    • Has no moons.
    • Has more volcanoes than any other planet.
    • hottest planet.
    • The atmosphere is composed of carbon
    dioxide.
    EARTH
    • Earth is the third planet.
    • Has one moon.
    • It is the only planet that has liquid
    water on its surface
    • It is the only planet in the solar
    system that has life.

    MARS
    • It is also known as the “Red Planet”
    • Mars is the fourth planet.
    • It is the second smallest planet.
    • Has two moons.
    • It has seasons like Earth too.
    JUPITER
    • Jupiter is the fifth planet.
    • It is the largest planet.
    • Has 63 moons.
    • It is the stormiest planet.
    • It is made of hydrogen, helium, methane
    and ammonia.

    SATURN
    • It is the sixth planet.
    • It is the second largest planet.
    • Has62 moons!
    • The rings are made up of millions of ice
    crystals.
    • It is a great ball of hydrogen and helium.
    • Saturn is not a peaceful planet because of
    wind storm.
    URANUS
    • It is the seventh planet
    • Has 27 moons
    • It rolls like a barrel rather than spinning
    like Earth
    • Uranus is the coldest planet.
    • Uranus’s atmosphere is mostly
    hydrogen but it also contains large
    amounts of a gas called methane.

    • It is the eighth planet.


    NEPTUNE
    • It is the farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar
    System
    • Has 13 moons.
    • Neptune is a large, water planet with a blue
    hydrogen-methane atmosphere and faint rings.
    • Neptune suffers the most violent weather.
    • It is the windiest planet in the Solar System.
    MOON
    • Our Moon is much smaller than Earth.
    • The Moon completes a full orbit for 28 days.
    • The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite.
    • Our Moon looks like a desert with mountains and valleys.
    • There is no suitable atmosphere for breathing
    • Recently scientists discovered water on the bottom of the
    Moon
    • It travels around the Earth in a shaped orbit

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