2. ☼I☼It’s first from the Sun. ☼I☼It has no moons. ☼I☼It has no rings. ☼A☼A year is 88 days. ☼R☼Rotation takes 59 days and nights.

3. ☼Mercury is like Earth’s Moon. ☼The surface looks very much like the Moon’s. ☼Thousands of craters cover it. ☼It has no atmosphere.

4. ☼It’s second from the Sun. ☼It has no moons. ☼It has no rings. ☼A year is 224.7 days. ☼Rotation takes 243 days and nights.

5. ☼It’s the hottest planet. ☼It has clouds. ☼It’s too hot to rain. ☼Venus’ atmosphere has a lot of carbon dioxide in it.

6. ☼It’s third from the Sun. ☼It has one moon. ☼It has no rings. ☼A year is 365.3 days. ☼Rotation takes 24 hours.

7. ☼If you look from space the oceans look like dark places. ☼Earth is about 93 million miles from the Sun. ☼If the Sun were any closer to the Earth the Earth would boil. ☼Earth is like a giant magnet.

8. ☼I☼It’s fourth from the Sun. ☼I☼It has two moons. ☼I☼It has no rings. ☼A☼A year is 687 days. ☼R☼Rotation takes 24.5 hours.

9. ☼Mars looks red because of all the rusty iron in the soil. ☼The sky looks pinkish because of the red dust in the air. ☼The four inner planets are hard and rocky. ☼Mars was once very hot.

10. ☼I☼It’s fifth from the Sun. ☼I☼It has about sixteen moons. ☼I☼It has two rings. ☼A☼A year is 12 Earth years. ☼R☼Rotation takes 9.8 hours.

11. ☼It doesn’t have a ground you can land on because it’s a gas planet. ☼No one has ever seen the surface of Jupiter. ☼People can only see the tops of the clouds. ☼The clouds are always moving.

12. ☼It’s sixth from the Sun. ☼It has seventeen moons. ☼It has many rings. ☼A year is 29.5 Earth years. ☼Rotation takes 10.7 hours.

13. ☼It has the largest ring. ☼Saturn looks like a faint star in the sky. ☼It was named after the roman god of farming. ☼Saturn is about 890 million miles from the Sun.

14. ☼It’s seventh from the Sun. ☼It has about fifteen moons. ☼It has ten rings. ☼A year is 84 Earth years. ☼Rotation takes 17 hours.

15. ☼It lies on its side. ☼Uranus is surrounded by a strange magnetic field. ☼Its south pole is pointing at the Sun. ☼The magnetic fields’ shape is equally strange.

16. ☼It’s eighth from the Sun. ☼It has eight moons. ☼It has four rings. ☼A year is165 Earth years. ☼Rotation takes 16 hours.

17. ☼It has two storms of wind. ☼Farther south is the smaller dark spot 2 which is a storm. ☼Neptune has two dark storms that resemble Jupiter’s great red spot. ☼Neptune is about 2.8 billion miles from the Sun.