E-JAY JONES

Mercury was named for the swift Roman messenger god.

Mercury is a planet of extreme temperatures.

Mercury is a bare and rocky planet with deep crater holes.

You can find Venus shining low in the western sky at night.

Venus is almost the same size as the Earth.

A year on Venus is 225 Earth-days long.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun.

Saturn it is the second largest planet.

Saturn is a giant ball of gas with a rocky center.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

Uranus rotates a different way than the other planets. It tilts over on its side.

Uranus looks blue-green and has some rings.

Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun.

Neptune has at least 8 moons.

Neptune has high winds and many storms.

Pluto is a dwarf planet.

It is smaller than Earth’s moon.

One day on Pluto is six Earth days long.