THE SOLAR SYSTEM

SATURN

MARS MERCURY

JUPITER

URANUS VENUS

EARTH

NEPTUNE
 THE SUN
Our
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to
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Every
our 1 throughout
home the solar
second the sun burns
planet. up to
600 million tons of helium
system.
THE PLANET MERCURY
Mercury is the first planet
from the Sun and the
smallest planet in the Solar
System. It is a terrestrial
planet with a heavily
cratered surface due to the
planet having no geological
activity and an extremely
tenuous atmosphere (called
an exosphere).
 THE PLANET VENUS
What isofVenus
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Venus period:
planetisfrom
the second 225planet
the Sun. days
It is
Distance
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and
a rocky planet with the 108.2
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million km Gravity:
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neighbor.
densest
m/s²
atmosphere of all
Even Radius: 6,051.8 km
though Mercury is
the rocky
Mass: to4.867
closer
bodies
× 10^24
the Sun,
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system. massthick
and
size that is isclose
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the
of its orbital
greenhouse gas neighbor
carbon
dioxide,
Earth. and it has clouds of
sulfuric acid.
 THE PLANET EARTH
Earth
Our home
Just is the planet
slightly only planet
larger in
is than
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the
thirdSolar
nearby planet System
from
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the
English name
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we
planets
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that’s
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mythology. The name was
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While
and Earth is only the
metal.
Germanic. It simply means
fifth largest planet in the
"the ground." There are, of
solar system, it is the only
course, many names for our
world in our solar system
planet in the thousands of
with liquidspoken
languages water by on thethe
surface.
people of the third planet
from the Sun.
 THE PLANET MARS
—
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Mars
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Mars
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had a thicker atmosphere than it
anto unprecedented
NASA Science. view into
does today.
the interior of Mars.
 THE PLANET JUPITER
Discovered
Jupiter
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While
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up as
iconic Great Red Spotmeteoroids
interplanetary is a giant
storm bigger
smash into the than giant Earth planet's
that
has raged
small innermost
for hundredsmoons. of years.
 THE PLANET SATURN
Saturn
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about sixth planet from
Saturn?
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THE PLANET URANUS
It was two is
Uranus years laterseventh
the that the
object from
planet was the universally
Sun, and
accepted
has as
the a new planet,
third-largest in
part because of observations
diameter in our
by astronomer Johann Elert
solar
system.
Bode. ItHerschel
was the firsttried
planet found with
unsuccessfully the aid
to name his
of a telescope,
discovery UranusSidus
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after King inGeorge
discovered 1781 III. by
Instead,
astronomer the scientific
William
community accepted
Herschel, although he Bode's
suggestion to name it Uranus,
originally thought it
the Greek god of the sky, as
was
either a comet
suggested by Bode.​or a star.
 THE PLANET NEPTUNE
Neptune
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THE REPORTERS
Francheska Cunanan
Ace Sanggalang
Medsel Joy Garcia
Cristal Bandola
Earl Justin Gatbonton
Krisha Colline Ginoo
Andrea Lastima
Mary Devine Capalad
John Mark Dela Cruz