PLANETS BY GIFT AND INK 701
PLANETS
BYGIFT AND INK
701
THE SUN
The Sun is one out of billions of stars. The Sun is the closest star to Earth.
MERCURY
Mercury is a battered and baked planet just larger than Earth's moon.
VENUSThe brightest of all planets, Venus, is also known as the
Morning Star and the Evening Star.
EARTH
The Planet Earth was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. So far, our very own Planet Earth is the only planet that harbors life.
marsMars has the largest canyon in the solar system. It would
reach from Los Angeles to Chicago if it was on Earth!
Jupiter
The planet had 39 known moons at the time of this image and a slight ring of smoke-sized particles and dust.
Saturn
Saturn has a ring system lying in flat and seeming to project out from the equator of the planet.
Uranus
The icy planet Uranus is a smaller version of Jupiter and not the small rocky bodies like Earth.
Neptune
Neptune is the eight planet from the Sun in our solar system.
Pluto
Pluto is a small rocky object that lies at the very edge of the solar system.