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Planets:

Mercury

Mercury
  • Distance from the sun: 69,817,445 km
  • Orbit period: 88 days
  • Temperature: -173 to 427 °C
  • Mass: 0.055 X Earth
  • Gravity: 3.7 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 74,797,000 km²
  • Moons: 0
  • Fun Fact: Its low atmosphere has caused it to become the most meteor-touched planet in our solar system.

Venus

Venus
  • Distance from the sun: 108,942,780 km
  • Orbit period: 225 days
  • Temperature: 462 °C
  • Mass: 0.815 X Earth
  • Gravity: 8.87 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 460,234,317 km²
  • Moons: 0
  • Fun Fact: Venus rotates opposite of every other planet in the solar system and no one knows why.

Earth

Earth
  • Distance from the sun: 152,098,233 km
  • Orbit period: 365 days
  • Temperature: -88 to 58 °C
  • Mass: 5.9722 X 1024
  • Gravity: 9.81 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 510,064,472 km²
  • Moons: 1
  • Fun Fact: Earth is the only planet known to contain life.

Mars

Mars
  • Distance from the sun: 249,232,432 km
  • Orbit period: 687 days
  • Temperature: -87 to -5 °C
  • Mass: 0.107 Earth
  • Gravity: 3.71 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 144,371,391 km²
  • Moons: 2
  • Fun Fact: Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather.

Jupiter

Jupiter
  • Distance from the sun: 816,001,807 km
  • Orbit period: 4,333 days
  • Temperature: -148 °C
  • Mass: 318.828 X Earth
  • Gravity: 24.79 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 61,418,738,571 km²
  • Moons: 50
  • Fun Fact: The Great Red Spot - a massive storm on the surface of Jupiter - has raged for hundreds of years.

Saturn

Saturn
  • Distance from the sun: 1,503,509,229 km
  • Orbit period: 10,756 days
  • Temperature: -178 °C
  • Mass: 95.161 X Earth
  • Gravity: 10.4 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 42,612,133,285 km²
  • Moons: 53
  • Fun Fact: Saturn is surrounded by thousands of ringlets composed of chunks of ice and rock.

Uranus

Uranus
  • Distance from the sun: 3,006,318,143 km
  • Orbit period: 30,687 days
  • Temperature: -216 °C
  • Mass: 14.536 X Earth
  • Gravity: 8.87 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 8,083,079,690 km²
  • Moons: 27
  • Fun Fact: Uranus is the only planet whose equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit. This may have been caused by a large collision.

Neptune

Neptune
  • Distance from the sun: 4,537,039,826 km
  • Orbit period: 60,190 days
  • Temperature: -214 °C
  • Mass: 17.148 X Earth
  • Gravity: 11.15 m/s²
  • Surface Area: 7,618,272,763 km²
  • Moons: 13
  • Fun Fact: Winds on Neptune reach almost 1700 km/hour.