By Chloe McClenaghan and Charis Wilson

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The Nine Planets!!!!

• By Chloe McClenaghan and Charis Wilson!

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Mercury

• Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Its
  surface has many thousands of impact craters as a
  result of being bombarded by objects since the
  solar system's early days. Since Mercury 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. Mercury is the closest
  planet to the Sun.

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Venus!

• Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love
  and beauty. This is one of those cases where
  beauty is only skin deep, though, as the surface
  of Venus is a very unpleasant place featuring
  very high temperatures, winds that blow hundreds
  of miles per hour and an atmosphere of sulfuric
  acid. Venus is an example of runaway greenhouse
  effect on a planetary scale.  

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Earth!

• Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is the
  largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar
  System, in both diameter and mass. It is also
  referred to as "the Earth", "Planet Earth",
  "Gaia", "Terra", "the World", and "the Blue
  Planet".
• Our home planet is a very interesting place. From
  space, it looks like a big blue marble, with the
  constantly changing cloud patterns giving our
  home planet an ever changing appearance. There
  are a number of things that make our planet
  unique in the solar system.
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Mars!

• The Red Planet is named after the Roman god of
  war. It's distinctive rust colour is easily seen
  through a small telescope. The surface of Mars
  features many mountains, canyons and even polar
  ice caps that look a lot like those here on
  Earth. In ancient times, Mars may have harboured
  some kind of life, and there is a lot of research
  going on now trying to get a definitive answer as
  to whether we are the only life forms in the
  solar system.It is the fourth planet from the
  Sun.

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Jupiter!

• Jupiter is the Fifth planet from the Sun and the
  largest planet in our solar system. It is two and
  a half times as massive as all the other planets
  in our Solar system combined.It has at least
  sixty-one moons and features the Great Red Spot,
  which is a huge "storm" that has been observed
  from here on Earth for over three hundred years.
  Jupiter is a gas planet so it is very extremely
  hard to land on.

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Saturn

• Saturn is one of the most beautiful planets in
  the solar system. It's fascinating system of
  rings have been a source of wonder since we first
  saw them with the earliest telescopes. Although
  the rings look fairly simple through a small
  telescope, spacecraft pictures have revealed that
  what looks like two rings through a telescope is
  actually hundreds of individual ring systems. In
  addition, Saturn has so many moons that it is
  like a miniature solar system.Saturn is the sixth
  planet from the sun.

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Uranus

• Uranus is one of the giant gas planets in the
  solar system. Its mysterious blue-green colour
  provides very few clues as to what is going on
  underneath the surface clouds. Uranus also has a
  very faint ring system that we didn't know
  existed until the planet was visited by the
  Voyager spacecraft. It is the seventh planet from
  the Sun.

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Neptune!

• Neptune was the last stop the Voyager mission
  made before if left our solar system. What we
  found out from Voyager was that Neptune has winds
  that blow hundreds of miles per hour and a moon
  that features "geysers" of nitrogen that erupt
  and leave dark marks on the surface. Neptune is
  the eight's planet from the Sun.

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Pluto!

• Pluto is so far away that even the mighty Hubble
  Space Telescope can't get us a very good picture.
  The image at right is the best image to date we
  have of this distant world. Very little is known
  about Pluto except that it is very, very cold and
  exceptionally dark. Pluto was discovered in 1930
  by Clyde Tombaugh, It was Hard naming the planet,
  but they eventually settled on Pluto. The dwarf
  planet is named for the Roman god Pluto, which is
  the god of the underworld in Roman
  mythology.Pluto is the last planet from the sun.