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The solar system consists of the Sun and everything orbiting around it, including 8 planets, over 200 moons, asteroids, comets, and dust. The planets are Mercury, the smallest planet closest to the Sun; Venus, covered in thick, toxic clouds; Earth, the only known planet capable of sustaining life; Mars, a cold desert world; Jupiter, the largest planet made of gas; Saturn, the second largest known for its iconic rings; Uranus, barely visible to the naked eye; and Neptune, the farthest and densest giant planet from the Sun.

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The solar system consists of the Sun and everything orbiting around it, including 8 planets, over 200 moons, asteroids, comets, and dust. The planets are Mercury, the smallest planet closest to the Sun; Venus, covered in thick, toxic clouds; Earth, the only known planet capable of sustaining life; Mars, a cold desert world; Jupiter, the largest planet made of gas; Saturn, the second largest known for its iconic rings; Uranus, barely visible to the naked eye; and Neptune, the farthest and densest giant planet from the Sun.

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Solar system, assemblage consisting of the Sun – an average star in the Milky Way Galaxy – and

those bodies orbiting around it: 8 (formerly 9) planets with about 210 known planetary satellites
(moons); countless asteroids, some with their own satellites; comets and other icy bodies; and vast
reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium.

Mercury, the innermost planet of the solar system and the eight in size and
mass. Its closeness to the Sun and its smallness make it the most elusive of the
planets visible to the unaided eye. Because its rising or setting is always within
about two hours of the Sun’s, it is never observable when the sky is fully dark.

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It’s one of the four inner, terrestrial
planets. Venus has a thick, toxic atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide and it’s
perpetually shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid that trap heat,
causing a runaway greenhouse effect. It’s the hottest planet in our solar system,
even though Mercury is closer to the Sun.

Earth is the third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known
universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth
largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one known for sure to have
liquid water on its surface.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very
thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps,
canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was even more active in the
past.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a
gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other
planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the
mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night
sky after the Moon and Venus. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar
System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a
half times that of Earth. It only has one-eighth the average density of Earth;
however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive.

Uranus, seventh planet in distance from the Sun and the least massive of the
solar system’s four giant, or Jovian, planets, which also include Jupiter, Saturn,
and Neptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-
green point of light.

Neptune is the eighth and farthest-known solar planet from the Sun. In the Solar
System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive
planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth, slightly
more massive than its near-twin Uranus.

Submitted by: Ireen Grace C. Rarama


STEM 11 – 6OL

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