30 cool things about planets

1. late this summer NASA will send perseverance a rover that's  like  a science lab on wheels to mars.an artist  Illustration  shows what the rover  will look like on mars.

2. A plant is large body of rock gas and other material  that travels around a star (like our  sun).

3.  Europa one of Jupiter's79 moons has a salty ice covered ocean that's  almost 10 times deeper than Earth's ocean europa.

4. Earth  is the only planet in  our solar system not named for a Greek or Roman god or goddess the roman god Jupiter.

5.  Neptune might have oceans of liquid diamond..

6.  Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet all 7 the other  planets could fit inside it.

7. Uranus has  only 2 seasons summer  and winter each lasts 42 earth year.

8.  The  cloud on venues rain sulfuric acid.

9.  Saturn has a  a solid core about the size of  earth  

10.  the earth moves around  the sun  at 67,000 miles an hour that  more than 100 times the speed of the  fastest jet. 

11.   because  it's closest to the sun  mercury  has the shortest year of our solar system's planets about 88 earth day.

12.Th great red spot  a hurricane like  storm  wider than  3 earth has been blowing  on jupiter for centuries the great red spot. 

13. The  mars rove perseverance will help  determine if life ever existed on mars and help to prepare the  planet for human exploration. 

14. our solar system has 8 rocky planets mercury Venus earth and  mars plus gas giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune.

15.  Astronomers believe  that a collision  with  another planet size object caused  the extreme tilt of Uranus's axis.

16.  Titan one of Saturns  moons is larger than the  plant  mercury. 

17.   A  billon earths could fit inside one of Saturn's thousands of rings.

18.  Pluto used  to  be our solar System's ninth planet. But  in 2006 scientists reclassified it as a dwarf planet  it's too small to be a regular planet but too big to be just a rock. 

19.  Saturn is the lightest planet in our solar  it world float if dropped in water. 

20.  Neptune  travels around the sun in about 165  years. 

21.  The surface temperature on Venus is hot enough to melt lead.

22. mercury is only  a little bigger than earth moon. 

23.  the word planet  comes form the Greek word Planete meaning wanderer

24.  Uranus is so far form the sun that it receives only 0.3 percent of the sunlights 

that  earth gets. 

25. earth's name come from the middle english word ertha  meaning ground.

26. Olympus mons the highest peak on mars is 3 time  the size of mount Everest.

27.   pieces of mars have been  found on earth a volcano erupts in Ecuador a  country in south America. 

28. earth was create 4.5 billon year ago from a mass of dust and rock. 

29.   A crater on the surface of  mercury  is wide enough to fit the  state of taxes. 

30. The surface of Venus has more than 1,600 volcanoes.

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