Solar System Facts

The Solar System Facts.


The Sun
  • The sun is one out of a billion stars.
  • The sun is the closest star to earth
  • The sun rotates once every 27 days
  • The sun formed over four and a half billion years ago.
Mercury
 
  • Mercury is the closest planet to the sun
  • Mercury is the eighth largest planet in the solar system
  • Half of Mercury has never been seen
  • Mercury has a magnetic feild

Venus

  • Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system
  • Venus is also known as the morning star, and the evening star.
  • Vens is the earths twin
  • Venus has phases and no moon

Neptune
  • Neptune has the strongest wind in the solar system
  • Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system
  • There are no plans to visit Neptune again
  • Neptune is the most distant planet

Uranus
  • Uranus has invisable rings
  • Uranus has 27 moons
  • Uranus was the first planet discoverd in the modern age
  • Uranus has been only visited once

Saturn
  • Saturn is a flattened ball
  • Saturn has 60 moons
  • Sometimes the rings disappear
  • There could be life near saturn

Mars
  • Mars has the biggest mountian in the solar system
  • Mars has some of the wildest wheather in the solar system
  • Mars has two moons, and one of it is going to crash into it
  • Only 1/3 of all the missions has been successful

Jupiter
  • Jupiter can't ever become a star
  • Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system
  • Jupiter has invisable rings
  • Jupiter has the most moons, 63

Earth
  • Earth is nearly a sphere
  • Earth is the only planet known to have life
  • Earth is the only planet to have water
  • Earth is almost 5 billion years old

Pluto
  • Pluto has 3 moons
  • Pluto was named after a god
  • Pluto can be closer then Neptune
  • Pluto is smaller then any planet