Solar System

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Solar System

• Christina Irwin

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Mercury

• Closest planet to the Sun.
• Surfaces many thousands of impact craters as a
  result of being bombarded by objects since the
  solar systems early days.
• Has no protective atmosphere
• The temperature on the surface ranges from
  extremely hot on the side facing the Sun to
  extremely cold on the side that faces away from
  the Sun.

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Venus

• Named after Romand goddess of love and Beauty.
• A very unpleasant place that features high
  temperatures,
• The wind blows hundreds of miles per hour.
• Is an example of a runaway greenhouse effect on
  planetary scale.

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Earth

• Our home
• Very beautiful place with the most varied surface
  in entire solar system.
• From the distance looks like a big blue marble.

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Mars

• The Red Planet named after the Roman god of War.
• A distinctive rust color
• It is seen easily through a small telescope.
• Many mountains, canyons and polar ice caps.
• Also at one time it harbored some kind of life,
  but still researching about it.

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Jupiter

• Largest planet in solar system.
• Has at least sixty-one moons
• Features the Great Red Spot, which is a huge
  storm

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Saturn

• One of the most beautiful plants.
• Fascinating ring around it
• Saturn has so many moons that it is like a
  miniature solar system

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Uranus

• One giant gas planet
• Mysterious blue-green color
• Has a faint ring system which we didnt know
  existed until the planet was visited by Voyager
  spacecraft.

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Neptune

• Has winds that blow hundreds of miles per hour
• A moon the features geysers of nitrogen that
  erupt and leave dark marks on the surface.

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Pluto

• Smallest and most mysterious planet.
• Farthest from the sun that it is just a dim
  point.
• Has one moon, Charon. This is just about the
  size of the planet.