Solar system: Our solar system is made up of a star—the Sun
—eight planets, 146 moons, a bunch of comets, asteroids and
space rocks, ice, and several dwarf planets, such as Pluto. The
eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is
the farthest.
Mercury: Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System
and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97
Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets.
Venus: Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is
sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost
as large and has a similar composition
Mars: Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-
smallest planet in the Solar System, larger only
than Mercury. Mars's average distance from the Sun is roughly
230 million km. The solar day (or sol) on Mars is only slightly
longer than an Earth day: 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244
seconds.[215] A Martian year is equal to 1.8809 Earth years, or 1
year, 320 days, and 18.2 hours.[2]
Jupiter: Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in
the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two
and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar
System combined, and slightly less than one one-thousandth
the mass of the Sun. Jupiter's rotation is the fastest of all the
Solar System's planets, completing a rotation on its axis in
slightly less than ten hours;
Saturn: 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 and a half times that of Saturn
is probably best known for the system of planetary rings that
makes it visually unique.[ Earth
Uranus: Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. As with gas
giants, ice giants lack a well-defined solid surface.
Uranus's atmosphere is similar to Jupiter's and Saturn's in its
primary composition of hydrogen and helium, but it contains
more "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane, along with
traces of other hydrocarbons. Uranus orbits the Sun once every
84 years. In 2033, the planet will have made its third complete
orbit around the Sun since being discovered in 1781.
Neptune: Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the
farthest known planet in the Solar System. It is the fourth-
largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-
massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times
the mass of Earth, and slightly more massive than its near-
twin Uranus. Neptune is denser and physically smaller than
Uranus because its greater mass causes more gravitational
compression of its atmosphere.
Earth: Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only place
known in the universe where life has originated and
found habitability. While Earth may not contain the
largest volumes of water in the Solar System, only Earth
sustains liquid surface water, extending over 70.8% of the
Earth with its ocean, making Earth an ocean world. Earth's
polar regions currently retain most of all other water with
large sheets of ice covering ocean and land, dwarfing
Earth's groundwater, lakes, rivers and atmospheric water. Land,
consisting of continents and islands, extends over 29.2% of the
Earth and is widely covered by vegetation.
Sun: he Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a
nearly perfect ball of hot plasma,[18][19] heated
to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The
Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet,
and infrared radiation, and is the most important source of
energy for life on Earth.