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Venus

• Venus is sometimes called Earth's sister planet.
• Venus is sometimes referred to as the “morning star” and “evening star”.
• Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
• Venus has 90 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth
• A day on Venus is longer than a year.
• Venus is the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon.
• Venus has 90 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth.

JUPITER

• The Clouds On Jupiter Are Only 50 km Thick.
• Jupiter Is The Fastest Spinning Planet In The Solar System.
• The Great Red Spot Has Been Around For A Long Time.
• Jupiter Has 67 Moons
• Jupiter's Magnetic Field Is 14 Times Stronger Than Earth's
• Jupiter Cannot Become A Star.

SATURN

• Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians and Far Eastern observers
• Saturn is the most distant planet that can be seen with the naked eye.
• Saturn is the flattest planet.
• Saturn orbits the Sun once every 29.4 Earth years
• Saturn's upper atmosphere is divided into bands of clouds
• Like Jupiter, Saturn is made mostly of hydrogen and helium.

MARS

• Mars Had Water In The Ancient Past
• Mars Has Frozen Water Today.
• Mars Used To Have A Thicker Atmosphere.
• Mars Has Some Extreme Highs And Lows In Terrain.
• Mars Has Two Moons – And One Of Them Is Doomed.
• We Have Pieces Of Mars On Earth.
• Mars Would Kill An Unprotected Astronaut Quickly.
• Mars and Earth have approximately the same landmass.
• Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system.

URANUS

• Uranus is known as the “sideways planet” because it rotates on its side.
• Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel.
• Uranus was the first planet found using a telescope.
• Uranus is an Ice Giant planet and nearly four times larger than Earth
• Uranus was the first planet discovered in the modern age.
• Uranus has 27 moons

NEPTUNE

• Neptune is the Most Distant Planet.
• Neptune is the Smallest of the Gas Giants.
• Neptune's Surface Gravity is Almost Earth-like.
• The Discovery of Neptune is Still a Controversy.
• Neptune has Rings.
• Neptune has the Strongest Winds in the Solar System.

MERCURY

• Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and is also the smallest of the eight planets in our solar system. For every 2 orbits of the Sun, which takes around 88 Earth days, Mercury completes three rotations of its axis. It is gravitationally locked and this rotation is unique to the solar system

EARTH

• The Earth's rotation is gradually slowing.
• The Earth was once believed to be the centre of the universe
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god!
• The Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.
• Earth's icy times.
• Earth's gravity isn't uniform