1. THE SUN The sun is not a planet, it is a star
It is made of gases and it is always burning
All the planets orbit around the sun
It is very big (around 1 million earth planets)
The sun gives us light and heat

2. MERCURY It is very small and rocky
It orbits around the sun at 30 miles per second
It hasn’t got any moons

3. VENUS Venus is a small and rocky planet
It is covered with poisonous clouds (sulfuric acid)
It is very hot and it never rains
It is very bright and you can see it from the Earth
It orbits very slowly around the sun.
One day in Venus is 243 days on Earth
It spins backwards

4. THE EARTH It is called the WATER PLANET
70% of the Earth is covered with water
There is life on Earth
It has got one moon
One year on Earth is 365 days

5. MARS It is a rocky planet and it is very cold It has got two moons
It is red
It is 141 million miles from the Sun.
It has got ice on the poles
There are sand storms and heavy winds

6. JUPITER It is a very big gas planet It has got 16 moons
It is covered with gas clouds.
It is the biggest planet in the Solar System

7. SATURN It has very big rings around it. The rings are made of ice.
It has got 60 moons
It is a gas planet and it is very light
It has 18 moons
One big moon in Saturn is called Titan and it has got air.
The temperature is -170ºC
It is 1.5 billion kilometres from the Sun.

8. URANUS It is a gas planet It has got 15 moons
It is one billion miles away from the Sun.
The temperature is -200º C
It is the most strange planet in our Solar System.

9. NEPTUNE It is a very very cold planet and very big
It is blue because its atmosphere is made of methane gas.
It has got 8 moons
Its rings are very small

10. PLUTO It is three million miles away from the Sun
It has got one moon. It is called Charon
It is the unvisited planet
It is the farthest planet from the Sun.
It is an icy planet