Solar System

Luis Madrid

Project Science

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Our Solar System

Mercury

Mercury • Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System also the smallest, and

its orbit is the most eccentric of the eight planets. It orbits the Sun once in about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits.

Radius: 1,516 miles

Distance from Sun: 35,980,000 miles

Surface area: 74,800,000 km

Length of day: 58 earth days

Venus

Venus

• Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

Radius: 6,052 km

Distance from the sun: 67,240,000 Miles

Surface area: 184080000 Miles

Length of days: 243 Earth days

Earth

Earth

• Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets.

– Radius: 3,959 miles

– Distance from the sun: 92,960,000 miles

– Surface area: 196,900,000 sq miles

– Length of days: 24 Hours

Mars

Mars

• Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and also the second smallest planet in the Solar System. Mars is named after the Roman god of war, it is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish color to it.

Radius: 2,106 miles

Distance from the sun: 141,600,000 miles

Surface area:55,907,000 square miles

Length of days:1d 0h 40m

Jupiter

Jupiter

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet out Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.

Radius: 44 423.0693 miles

Distance from the sun: 483,800,000 miles

Surface area: 24,007,700,000 square miles

Length of days:9 hours and 55 minutes

Saturn

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god Saturn, its astronomical symbol represents the god's sickle.

Radius: 37 448.799 miles

Distance From the sun: 890,700,000 miles

Surface area: 886,489,415 miles

Length of days: 10h 39m

Uranus

Uranus

• Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System.

Radius: 165,500 miles

Distance from the sun: 1,787,000,000 miles

Surface area: 3,133,400,000 square miles

Length of days: 17 hours, 14 minutes and 24 seconds

Neptune

Neptune

• Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass.

Radius: 15,299 miles

Distance from the sun: 2,798,000,000 miles

Surface area: 2.9 billion square miles

Length of days: 16.11 hours

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