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Fascinating Facts about The Planets - 1


This sub-category of the Space category is for fascinating facts about The Planets.


Day and Year
A day is the time that a planet takes to rotate once. The time that a planet takes to orbit the sun is called a year.

Jupiter
The plant with the shortest day is Jupiter - it lasts for just under 10 hours.

Saturn's Rings
The rings around Saturn are not solid. They consist of pieces of rocky debris that orbit the planet.

The Moon
The moon has no light of its own, it shines by reflecting sunlight.

The Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and its nine orbiting planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

The Sun
The temperature at the surface of the sun is 5,500 degrees centigrade.

Venus
The closest planet to Earth is Venus. It is 43 million km away.

Venus
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Venus
On Venus a day lasts 244 Earth days and a year lasts 225 Earth days. This means that a day lasts longer than a year.