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The Solar System

By Haley Oliver
Title Page
The Sun
Mercury
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a Quick Tour
Venus
Through the So Earth
lar System
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Luna
Work Cited
The Sun
The Scientific name is Sol.
It contains about 98% of all the rocks, dust,
and gas in the Solar System.
If hollow, one million Earths could fit inside.
It acts as a giant magnet.
The Suns surface is 6,000 degrees celcius,
but its atmosphere is millions of degrees.

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Mercury
It takes 87,969 days for Mercury to orbit the Sun
one time.
Since it is smaller than Earth, it has less gravity
which means if you weighed 70 pounds on Earth,
you would weigh 27 pounds on Mercury.
Mercury is so hot that you could burn to death
during the day, but spins so slowly that you could
freeze to death at night.
It has no moons.
There is almost no air on Mercury.
It is 36 million miles away from the Sun.

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Venus
It takes 224,701 days to orbit the Sun.
You would way 63 pounds here if you
weighed 70 pounds on Earth.
It is similar to Earth because it has
mountains, venusquakes, mountains and
valleys. You cant live here though
because it is way too hot.
It is 67 million miles away from the Sun.
Venus has no moons.

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Earth

It takes Earth 365.3 days to orbit the Sun.


We are 93 million miles away from the Sun
It contains the only human life we know of.
Earth has one moon, Luna.
Earth has just the perfect combination of
weather, temperature, and atmosphere to
keep us alive.

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Mars
It takes 686.98 days to orbit the Sun.
Mars is 142 million miles away from the Sun.
Weighing 70 pounds on Earth, you would weigh
27 on Mars.
Scientists have found that Mars once had
streams, rivers, lakes, and an ocean.
Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.
Mars has the highest mountains and deepest
canyons in the whole Solar System. The largest
canyon on Mars would stretch from New York to
California here on Earth.

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Jupiter
It takes Jupiter 4332.59 days to complete one orbit
around the Sun.
It is 482 million miles away from the Sun.
You would weight 185 pounds on Jupiter if you weighed
70 pounds on Earth.
Jupiter has a great red spot that is made up of storms that
have been constantly occurring for over 300 years.
There is no solid surface here, it is just one huge ocean of
Hydrogen and Water. There is nothing in between the
atmosphere and the ocean, there would be no flat surface
to float a boat on like on Earth.
Jupiter has 63 moons.
It only takes 10 hours to go from night to day here.

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Saturn
It takes 10,759.2 days to orbit the Sun.
You would weigh 82 pounds here if you
weighed 70 pounds on Earth.
Its rings are 169,800 miles wide, but less thick
than a football field.
Saturn is very similar to Jupiter because under
its atmosphere is an ocean of liquid chemicals.
Saturn has 34 moons.
It is 888 million miles away from the Sun.

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Uranus
It takes 30,684 days for Uranus to orbit the Sun.
It is 1, 784 million miles away from the Sun.
You would weigh 82 pounds here, if you weighed
70 pounds on Earth.
It is the only planet that spins on its side.
Uranus could have ocean under its atmosphere,
and because of the amount of pressure on Uranus,
it could possible have trillions of large diamonds.
It is almost identical to Neptune.
It has 27 moons.

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Neptune
It takes 60,190 days to orbit the Sun.
Neptune has a giant storm just like Jupiter, it
is called the Great Dark Spot.
It was discovered in 1846.
It has 6 rings that surround it.
Since Neptune is so far away, scientists
know of 13 moons for sure, but there could
be many more to be discovered.
It is 2,794 million miles away from the Sun.

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Luna
Luna is Earths moon.
Luna is 240,000 miles away from Earth.
It has many mountains, valleys, old volcanoes,
and craters. Craters are caused by asteroids and
comets colliding with the Moon.
Luna and Earth are very close in size.
The dark spots you see on it are actually
hardened beds of lava. The Moon used to have
active volcanoes with liquid lava, and when the
moon was struck by an asteroid or comet, it
would puncture the surface of the Moon and
cause lava to ooze out of it. The lava hardened
and that caused the dark spots you see today.

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