Foss Reading: A Tour of the Solar System

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Across
  1. 6. smallest of all the gas giants
  2. 7. dwarf planet found in the Asteroid Belt
  3. 8. sometimes called a dirt snowball; orbit the sun in long, oval paths
  4. 9. planet with many storms, including one known as the Great Red Spot
  5. 11. contains 99.8% of all mass in the Solar System
  6. 13. planet with rings made of ice and rock
Down
  1. 1. very hot planet; one of the hottest places in the Solar System
  2. 2. chunks of iron and rock
  3. 3. planet covered with thousands of craters
  4. 4. was once a planet but is now considered a dwarf planet
  5. 5. planet with a surface of red soil made of iron oxide (rust)
  6. 10. planet that appears blue because of its methane gas in the atmosphere
  7. 12. has an atmosphere made of nitrogen and oxygen