Solar Space Warm Up Question

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Venus is also known as the Morning Star *

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Venus was named after the Roman goddess of beauty and


is also known as the evening or morning star.

 The planet Mercury has an atmosphere to protect itself from solar


radiation. *

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Instead of an atmosphere, Mercury possesses a thin exosphere made up


of atoms blasted off the surface by the solar wind and striking
meteoroids. Mercury's exosphere is composed mostly of oxygen, sodium,
hydrogen, helium and potassium.

The Color of the sun is actually yellow *

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The Sun isn't actually yellow; it's just an illusion caused by the
Earth's atmosphere. The powerful processes happening inside the Sun
are so robust that it emits every color of light imaginable.
Together, these colors form a pure white light, which is precisely
what you'd see from space.

 Neptune and Uranus are also gas giants *

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Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are all Gas Giants

 
Uranus is a blue planet, not because of gases,but because of water
that make it appear blue. *

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Same as Neptune, Uranus is a blue planet, not because of water,but


because of gases that make it appear blue.

 Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that has rings *

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False

false

FALSE

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The most prominent and most famous planetary rings in the Solar
System are those around Saturn because Saturn's Rings can be seen the
clearest, but the other three giant planets (Jupiter, Uranus, and
Neptune) also have ring systems.

 All planets were named after Roman and Greek gods and goddesses
except Earth *

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All planets were named after Roman and Greek gods and
goddesses, except the Earth. The name "Earth"
nevertheless is more than 1,000 years old and means just Ground
 Mercury is the hottest planet because it is the closest planet to
our sun *

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Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. Although Venus is


not the planet closest to the sun, its dense atmosphere traps heat in
a runaway version of the greenhouse effect that warms Earth.

 Saturn's most famous feature on the surface of the planet is the


"Great Red Spot" which is actually a storm that has been blowing for
about 350 years, if not longer. *

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Jupiter's most famous feature on the surface of the planet is the


"Great Red Spot" which is actually a storm that has been blowing for
about 350 years, if not longer.

 Venus has two moons namely Phobos and Deimos *

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Mercury and Venus has no moons, Earth has one, and Mars has two
namely Phobos and Deimos

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