Mercury• It takes Mercury 87 days to orbit around the

sun.• It takes Mercury 58 days to rotate• Mercury’ name came from the god Hermes

Mercury

• Mercury’s minimum temperature is – 300 ° F• Mercury’s maximum temperature is 870 ° F• Mercury is 36 million miles from the sun.• Mercury is the first planet from the sun.

Mercury

Venus

• Venus is the 2nd planet from the sun.• Venus got its name from the Roman goddess

of love and beauty.• Venus is made up of rock

Venus

• It takes Venus 224 days to orbit around the sun.

• It takes Venus 243 and 16 days to rotate around itself.

Venus

Earth

• Earth was considered the mother of the mountains, valleys, streams and all other land formations she was married to Uranus.

• Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun• Earth is 93 million miles from the sun.

Earth

• It takes Earth 365 days to orbit the sun• It takes Earth 24 hours to rotate• Earth’s temperature is 45 °F

Earth

Mars• Mars got its name from the Roman god of war

and agriculture.• Mars is known as the red planet• Mars is the 4th planet from the sun• It takes 686 days for Mars to orbit the sun

Mars

• It takes mars 24 hours and 37 minutes to rotate.

• Mars is 124 million miles the sun.• Minimum temperature is - 190° F• Maximum temperature is 93 ° F

Mars

Jupiter

• Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun .• If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth you would

weigh 185 pounds on Jupiter .• It has a great red spot. • The average temperature on Jupiter is -224 ° F.

Jupiter

• Jupiter got its name from the Greek god Zeus.• It takes Jupiter 4,332 days to orbit the sun.• It take Jupiter 9 hours and 55 minutes to

rotate.• Jupiter is 483 million miles from the sun.

Jupiter

Saturn

• Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun• Saturn was the god of agriculture. He was also

the father of Jupiter and the son of Uranus.• If you weigh 70 pounds on earth then you

would weigh 82 pounds on Saturn.

Saturn

• It takes Saturn 10,759 days to orbit the sun.• Saturn 888 million miles from the sun.• Saturn’s rotation takes 10 hours 13minutes .• Saturn’s temperature is -300 °F.

Saturn

Uranus

• Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun• It is 1,784 million miles from the sun• Uranus was the lord of the skies and husband

of Earth. He was also the king of the gods until his son Saturn overthrew him.

Uranus

• It takes Uranus 30,684 days to orbit the sun• It takes Uranus 17 hours to rotate• Uranus’s temperature is -300 °F

Uranus

Neptune

• Neptune got its name from the Greek god• Neptune is the blue planet• Neptune has 6 rings which circles the planet• Neptune has 13 moons• Neptune is the 8th planet from the sun

Neptune

• It takes Neptune 60,190 days to orbit the sun.• It takes Neptune 16 hours and 17 minutes to

rotate.• Neptune is 2,794 miles from the sun• Neptune’s temperature is -184 °C or -370° F

Neptune

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