1. Solar System Luis Madrid Project Science 1-6-13

2. Our Solar System

3. Mercury

4. Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System also the smallest, and its orbit is the most eccentric of the eight planets. It orbits the Sun once in about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits.  Radius: 1,516 miles  Distance from Sun: 35,980,000 miles  Surface area: 74,800,000 km  Length of day: 58 earth days

5. Venus

6. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.  Radius: 6,052 km  Distance from the sun: 67,240,000 Miles  Surface area: 184080000 Miles  Length of days: 243 Earth days

7. Earth

8. Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth- largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. –Radius: 3,959 miles –Distance from the sun: 92,960,000 miles –Surface area: 196,900,000 sq miles –Length of days: 24 Hours

9. Mars

10. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and also the second smallest planet in the Solar System. Mars is named after the Roman god of war, it is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish color to it.  Radius: 2,106 miles  Distance from the sun: 141,600,000 miles  Surface area:55,907,000 square miles  Length of days:1d 0h 40m

11. Jupiter

12. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet out Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.  Radius: 44 423.0693 miles  Distance from the sun: 483,800,000 miles  Surface area: 24,007,700,000 square miles  Length of days:9 hours and 55 minutes

13. Saturn

14. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god Saturn, its astronomical symbol represents the god's sickle.  Radius: 37 448.799 miles  Distance From the sun: 890,700,000 miles  Surface area: 886,489,415 miles  Length of days: 10h 39m

15. Uranus

16. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System.  Radius: 165,500 miles  Distance from the sun: 1,787,000,000 miles  Surface area: 3,133,400,000 square miles  Length of days: 17 hours, 14 minutes and 24 seconds

17. Neptune

18. Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass.  Radius: 15,299 miles  Distance from the sun: 2,798,000,000 miles  Surface area: 2.9 billion square miles  Length of days: 16.11 hours

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