Distance from Sun: 483.8 million mi

Moons: 50 moons
Identifying feature: It’s big red spot 

Length of Year: Approximately 12 Earth years

Length of Day: Approximately 10 Earth hours

Explorations or Missions: 9 missions

Interesting Facts: Jupiter has 3 faint rings

Size: 3,760 miles radius

Moons: none

Identifying Feature: Has a reddish clay color

Day Length: 243 earth days

Year length: 225 earth days

Missions: There has been 41 missions to Venus

Interesting Facts: Venus rotates the opposite direction from all of the other planets,

96% carbon dioxide

Distance From Sun - About 36 million miles

Moons - no moons

Identifying Feature - Looks a lot like Earth’s moon, scarred by collisions with meteoroids

Length of year - About 88 Earth Days

Length of Day - About 59 Earth Days

Explorations or missions - There have been two missions: Messenger (first spacecraft to orbit Mercury) and Mariner 10 (first spacecraft to visit mercury)

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Size: 2.795 billion mi

Moons: 14 moons

Identifying Feature: Almost all of Neptune is a sky blue color due to sun reflecting from the red light

Length of Year: 165 Earth years

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Length of Day: 16 Earth hours

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Explorations or Missions: 1 mission - voyager 2

Interesting Facts: Neptune has 6 rings

Interesting fact: Many comets formed in the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belts, two of the outermost regions of the solar system.

Size: about 4,000 mi radius (3,959 mi)

There’s one moon called the moon

Identifying feature: the planet is 70% water

Length of year: 365 earth days

Length of day; 24 hours

There’s no recent explorations

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Distance from Sun: 1.787 billion mi

Moons: 27 moons

Identifying Feature: The blue tint on the outer surface, caused by methane

Length of Year:  About 84 Earth years

Length of day:About 17 Earth hours

Explorations or Missions: 1 mission - Voyager 2

Interesting Facts: Uranus has 13 faint rings

Sunspots - small dark spots that are cooler spots of the sun

Prominences - reddish loops that link multiple sunspots

Solar Flares - when the loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect, releasing large amounts of energy. The energy heats gas on the sun, causing the hydrogen gas to explode out into space.

Nuclear Fusion - When hydrogen atoms join together to form helium.

Interesting Facts - The sun is a star.

Moons: 2: Phobos, Deimos

Size: 4,220 mi

Identifying Feature: the red dust that covers most of its surface

Length of Year: 687 Earth Days

Length of Day: 24 hours 37 minutes

Explorations or Missions: 46 missions

Interesting Facts: If you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 38 pounds on Mars

Distance from Sun: About 900 million mi

Moons: 62 moons

Identifying Feature: Saturn’s rings

Length of Year: About 29 Earth years

Length of Day: About 10.7 Earth hours

Explorations or Missions: 5 missions

Interesting facts: Saturn has 7 rings

Location in the Solar System: Roughly between Mars and Jupiter

Interesting Facts: In the asteroid belt, there are billions and billions of asteroids

Meteor: A meteor looks like a falling star. In space meteors start to glow and heat up. Most of the original object burns up before it strikes the Earth.

Meteorite: Any left over part of a meteor that DOES hit the Earth. It makes a crater in the ground when it hits.

Interesting Facts: There is a meteor the size of Texas that is supposed to come close to Earth and maybe even come to contact with Earth.

Famous crashing: Vredefort crater; 2 billion years ago