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- 1. The second planet from the sun, it is slightly smaller than Earth. Because of its relative proximity to Earth, it is the largest planet seen in the night sky.
- 6. The blue planet is the farthest one from the sun and, is a very cold place. Its surface temperature is a chilly -353 F (-214 C). Because of its distance from the sun and its large orbit, one year on this planet is 165 Earth years.
- 8. the ringed one ...it's most impressive feature as seen from afar is an extensive and complex ring system. The rings orbit the planet in a thin band about a mile thick.
- 9. it is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
- 10. a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 million million miles).a long distance or great amount.
Down
- 2. home sweet home
- 3. An Oddball that Spins on Its Side, this cold planet is four times the size of Earth... has a faint ring system and 27 moons in its orbit.
- 4. ...is the closest planet to the sun. It rotates slowly — about twice for every three orbits it completes.
- 5. the rusty planet, Stargazers from antiquity have called it, the fourth planet from the sun, the Red Planet.
- 7. ... has 63 moons and a faint ring system., king of the Solar System