Sun

1) The sun is really a star.

2) The Sun is the closest star to Earth.

3) The sun is a ball of hot, glowing gasses.

4) The part we see is about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

5) The Sun shoots flairs of hot gas thousands of miles into space.

Mercury

1) When Mercury is closest to the Sun, the Sun is three time bigger than it.

2) The only time to see Mercury from earth is during twilight.

3) If Earth was a baseball than Mercury would be a golf ball.

4) Venus is hotter than Mercury.

5) The is no watter on Mercury but there may be a little ice in deep craters.

Venus

1) You can see Venus from Earth with the naked eye.

2) Venus is named after the goddess of love and beauty.

3) Venus has no moons.

4) To get to Venuses surface you would have to go through hurricane winds and lightning.

5) If we switched to Venus clocks a school day would be four months.

Earth

1) Is the only planet to harbor life.

2) It is the fifth largest plant.

3) It is just a few hundred kilometers bigger than Venus.

4) Our moon is responsible for stabilizing our wobble.

5) Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are similar because they all have rocky surfaces and meteor impact craters.

Mars

1)Mars is thought to be very earth like.

2)Giant dust storms cover the whole planet.

3)Mars has polar ice caps.

4)Mars has enough frozen water to fill lake Michigan twice.

5)Phobos is slowly moving towards mars.

Jupiter

1)The atmosphere can crush a metal spacecraft like a paper cup.

2)The great red spot is as big as three earths.

3)Jupiter has 49 moons.

4)It has four planet sized moons.

5)Ganymede is the only moon to have a magnetic field.

Saturn

1)A person or spacecraft dropping through the icy clouds would be crushed.

2)Saturn is like Jupiter except it does not have a solid surface.

3)Saturn has cloud stripes like Jupiter but they are harder to see.

4)Saturn's rings are mostly ice and rock.

5)The chunks of ice rock can be as small as a grain of sugar or as big as a house

Uranus

1)It has the brightest clouds in our solar system.

2)It was the first planet discovered by a telescope.

3)It takes 84 years to orbit the sun.

4)It is mainly made out of hydrogen and helium.

5)It gets its blue color from methane gas like Neptune

Neptune

1)It was the first planet discovered mathematically.

2)It was found in 1846 seventeen days latter its largest moon Triton was found.

3)It orbits the sun every 165 years.

4)It is blue from the methane gas above the clouds.

5)Scientist think there might be an ocean of super hot water under Neptune's clouds