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Did you know that the planets revolve around the sun? They also rotate on an axis. It ​takes Earth one full year to revolve around the sun. There are planets and moons and also meteorites and asteroids in the solar system. Jupiter is made of storms and Uranus is tilted. Earth is the only planet you can live on, Venus has poison clouds and they rain sulfuric acid and so on with other planets.

Did you know that the solar system is divided in to inner and outer planets? Mercury is the first inner planet. Mercury has craters and was named after a roman messenger god. It is also the smallest planet in the solar system. The next planet is Venus, it was named after the roman goddess of love and beauty. It takes 234 days to spin on the axis. Our beautiful planet is next. Do you know what the next planet is? It’s Mars! Mars is a beautiful, bright planet, the color was caused by chemicals of the surface. It was named after a roman god because the color reminded the roman gods of a bloody roman battlefield. Traveling through the solar system we’ve made our way to the outer planets. The first outer planet is Jupiter. Jupiter is the largest planet ! It was named after the king of roman gods in roman mythology because of it’s huge size. Over thousands of Earths could fit in it. We’re off to the next planet, Saturn. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. It was named after the roman god of agriculture and harvest. The next planet is uranus. Uranus is a gas giant planet, it was named after the roman god of the hevans in greek mythologly.Going to the next planet, Neptune. Neptune is a gas giant planet also and it has 13 moons, it was named after the roman god of seas. Here comes the next planet Pluto with its best and biggest moon friend Charon. Charon is Plutos moon, Pluto was named after the underworld! Charon was named after a mythological figure who ferried the dead across the river of Styx of Hades.

We are coming back to are planet Earth. Earth is the most beautiful planet in the entire solar system, it is slightly larger than Venus. It is the only plaanet known to contain liquid water on its surface, it is the only planet known to support life as we know it.