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What do you know about the planets in our solar system?

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what i know about the solar system is that there were 9 planets (Used to before pluto got kicked out) Is that the rocky planets are mercury, venus, earth (Where we are), and mars (The very red planet)

And the gas giants are jupiter (One of the biggest planets or the solar system), Saturn (The planet that has most rings), Uranus (The coldest planet with an up and down ring), and neptune

Step-by-step explanation:

Mercury is the smallest and closest planet to the Sun in the Solar System. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System.

Distance from Sun: 35.98 million mi

Orbital period: 88 days

Length of day: 58d 15h 30m

Radius: 1,516 mi

Colors: light grey nasa.gov

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the brightest natural object in Earth's night sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and can be, on rare occasion, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight.

Distance from Sun: 67.24 million mi

Orbital period: 225 days

Length of day: 116d 18h 0m

Sidereal rotation period: −243.025 d (retrograde)

Equatorial rotation velocity: 6.52 km/h (1.81 m/s)

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. About 29% of Earth's surface is land consisting of continents and islands.

Age: 4.543 billion years

Distance from Sun: 92.96 million mi

Population: 7.674 billion (2019) World Bank

Alternative names: Gaia, Gaia, Terra, Tellus, the world, the globe

Highest point: Mount Everest's noaa.gov

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury. In English, Mars carries the name of the Roman god of war and is often referred to as the "Red Planet".

Gravity: 3.711 m/s²

Length of day: 1d 0h 37m

Orbital period: 687 days

Surface pressure: 0.636 (0.4–0.87) kPa; 0.00628 atm

Moons: Phobos, Deimos

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.

Orbital period: 12 years

Distance from Sun: 483.8 million mi

Radius: 43,441 mi

Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)

Surface pressure: 200–600 kPa (opaque cloud deck)

Moons: Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, MORE

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine times that of Earth. It only has one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive.

Distance from Sun: 890.8 million mi

Orbital period: 29 years

Radius: 36,184 mi

Length of day: 0d 10h 42m

Surface area: 16.49 billion mi²

Moons: Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, Tethys, Iapetus, Hyperion, MORE

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus, who, according to Greek mythology, was the grandfather of Zeus and father of Cronus. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System.

Distance from Sun: 1.784 billion mi

Orbital period: 84 years

Radius: 15,759 mi

Surface area: 3.121 billion mi²

Named after: the Latin form Ūranus of the Greek god Οὐρανός Ouranos

Moons: Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Miranda, Puck, Ariel, Desdemona, MORE

Neptune is the eighth and farthest-known Solar planet from the Sun. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth, slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus.

Distance from Sun: 2.793 billion mi

Orbital period: 165 years

Radius: 15,299 mi

Surface area: 2.941 billion mi²

Length of day: 0d 16h 6m

Moons: Triton, Thalassa, Proteus, Nereid, Hippocamp, Despina, MORE

That is a whole lot of explanation but for sure hope this helps

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