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sun the sun s surface is about 100 times as hot as the hottest day on earth more than one million planet earths could fit inside of the sun the sun surface is a warm 6,000 degrees celsius the surface of the sun is much cooler than its atmosphere.

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pluto pluto has three moons in 1999 a group of scientists attempted to redesignate pluto as a comet pluto has never been visited space craft pluto is a small dwarf planed pluto moon is called charon pluto has one moon.

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mars if you weighed 70 pounds you would weigh about 27 pounds on earth mars was the roman god of war and agriculture mars has higher mountains and deeper canyons than any other planet mars canyon would stretch from new york city to los angeles on earth mars also has the solar system biggest volcano mars is 142 million miles away from earth.

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jupiter jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun you can see four of jupiter s moons with a pair of binoculars at night jupiter is a giant gas planet which is made up of about 90 hydrogen 10 helium jupiter is so big that you could cram 1,000 earths inside of it jupiter has high speed winds that whip by at more than 400 mph the dark colored bands are called belts.

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neptune neptune was originally only the god of water but was later extended to the ocean when he became associated with the greek god poseidon it was discovered by johan galle and heinrich d arrest in 1846 neptune blue color is the result of a gas called methane in its atmosphere neptune has 8 know moons 7 small ones and a large moon called triton in roman mythology neptune was the god of the sea neptune is the eighth planet from the sun and the fourth of the outer planets.

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jupiter jupiter is named after the roman king of gods jupiter is mostly made of a gas called hydrogen jupiter has lots of storms their storms have been going for about 300 years some of jupiter moons are found in its rings jupiter has at least 63 moons or maybe more jupiter known as zeus in greece over threw his father saturn to become king of the gods he then split the universe with his brothers neptune and pluto.

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mercury the surface of the planet mercury is covered with craters because mercury is a dead planet ,with no volcanic activity and no atmosphere it will forever retain its scares if you weigh 70 pounds on earth you would weigh only about 27 pounds on mercury the planet mercury is closest of the planets to the sun mercury often is visible for a brief period of time just after the sun sets.

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venus venus is the second planet from the sun venus is sometimes called the evening star and the morning star it is very bright you can see it at sunset and sunrise one day on venus is longer than one year on venus one venus day is 243 earth days.

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mars mars is often called the red planet because of it color if you go to you will weigh 27 pounds mars orbit takes it just inside of the asteroid belt one orbit from the sun is 68698 days t he first spacecraft to visit mars was mariner four in 1965.

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pluto because pluto is so small you would be very light if you visited pluto is smaller than 7 of the moons in the solar system in 1999 a group of scientists attempted to redesignate pluto as a comet but was changed to a dwarf craft pluto has 3 moons the largest is named charon pluto was thought to be the god to whom all men must eventually go.

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pluto pluto is smaller than 7 of the moon in the solar system pluto is so far away that no satellites have ever been sent there pluto has three moons you would only weigh 4 pounds on pluto pluto has never been visited by space craft because we have never sent probes to this planet we know very little the largest name is charon.

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