3. Did you know….. Mercury is the closet planet to the sun? It is VERY hot in the day (600 degrees) And very cold at night (-300 degrees) Mercury has thousands of craters Mercury has hardly any air and no water

4. Did you know….. Venus is the same size as Earth Venus is always hidden under clouds…and has a constant thunderstorm The sky is red The ground is mountainous and has thousands of volcanoes The clouds act like a heat trap, and it’s about 880 degrees on Venus

5. Did you know Earth is the only planet with life..in the air, on the ground, and under water It is the only planet with liquid water and air people can breathe The earth travels around the sun every 365 days; which is one year

6. Did you know…. Mars is almost as big as Earth? Mars is called the red planet because it is covered with rusty colored rocks / mountains You could not breathe on Mars

7. Did you know Jupiter is the largest planet It is bigger than ALL of the other planets combined It has at least 63 moons You can’t land on Jupiter; it is made of colorful glasses It has a huge hurricane on (the Great Red Spot)

8. Did you know…… Saturn is also made of gases It has thousands of colorful rings which are made of lumps of dirty ice It is 62 moons

9. Did you know……. It is tilted with it’s poles on the sides Uranus is also made of gases, and It glows a blue-green color It also has rings and many moons

10. Did you know… Neptune is also a gas Planet, and it is VERY Windy (1200 miles per Hour!) It has 8 moons It has small rings made of dust and ice chips

11. Did you know….. Pluto is a dwarf planet Farthest planet away from the sun, and very tiny It is very cold (it’s a big chunk of ice It takes 248 Earth years to circle the sun

12. The moon has no air and no weather It takes the moon about 27 days to orbit around the Earth It would take 130 days to drive a car to the moon The moon does not glow, it reflects light from the sun.

14. The sun’s surface Is about 10,000 degrees ! It is a ball of burning gas It is the energy source which makes life possible on Earth