By Jake Jones

Mercury is the first planet from the sun.

Mercury was named after the swift roman messenger god.

Mercury is a bare rocky planet with deep craters.

Earth is one of the inner planets.

Earth is the third planet from the sun.

Earth is the only planet that can support live.

Venus was named for the roman god of love and beauty.

Venus means beauty.

Venus is the second planet from the sun.

Mars was named for the roman god of war.

It is often called the red planet

Mars is only half the size of earth.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun.

It is the biggest planet in the solar system .

Jupiter is twice as large as the other eight planets put together.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun

like Jupiter Saturn is a gas gaint

Many rings orbit Saturn

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun .

a year on Uranus is 84 earth days

Uranus has 10 small moons and 5 large moons.

A year on Neptune is 165 earth years long.

One day is about 16 earth hours long .

Neptune has faint rings.

Pluto has one moon .

It is also the coldest planet in the world

Pluto is the smallest planet in the solar system.