Interesting Facts about the Solar System - Planets for Kids
The planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There are also dwarf planets such as Pluto, dozens of moons and millions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids of all shapes and sizes.
Why is the earth round? - Planets for Kids
The reason for the chunkier look to the planet is because earth is constantly turning and something called ‘centrifugal force’ pushes everything to the center of the planet and out. It is believed that the earth, like all of the planets in our solar system, formed 4.6 billion years ago, when asteroids began crashing into each other and then ...
Interesting Facts about Constellations - Planets for Kids
People that explore the stars in the sky who aren’t professionals are called skywatchers and in their search for comets, planets, or other celestial events they use a process called “star hopping.” History: The word constellation is from the Latin term …
Interesting Facts about Planet Venus - Planets for Kids
Facts about Venus for Kids: Venus has over 1,600 volcanoes, the most of any planet within the solar system. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to make one complete rotation. Compared to Earth’s 365 days, it takes Venus only 224.7 Earth days to make one rotation around the sun.
Interesting Facts about Planet Mercury - Planets for Kids
Mercury may be the closest planet to the sun but it experiences temperature changes that are the most extreme of any planet in the solar system, including dropping to -275 F/-170 C. Mercury is only slightly larger than the Earth’s moon.
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Cool Space Facts - Planets for Kids
Cool Space Facts for Kids: Our sun is over 300,000 times bigger than the Earth. Halley’s Comet only enters our inner solar system every 75 years. The last time it was visible from Earth was in 1986 and the next time will be in 2061. Venus has temperatures over 450 degrees C and is listed as the hottest planet in our solar system.
Interesting Facts about the Moon - Planets for Kids
Facts about The Moon for Kids: The moon is covered in craters from impacts from meteors and comets. The lack of an atmosphere on the moon gives scientists an in-depth detailed view of the history of impacts on the surface.
Interesting Facts about Planet Jupiter - Planets for Kids
Jupiter was named after the Roman king of the gods. It’s the fifth planet from the sun in our solar system and the largest planet of all. To give you an idea of how big Jupiter is, you could line up 11 Earths, side-by-side just to stretch from one side of Jupiter to the other.
mars missions - Planets for Kids
Beyond our Earth, Mars is the one planet that has had the most spacecraft, research, and exploration. There have been 68 missions that have launched to Mars and they include flybys, probes, orbiters, and rovers.