| Question | Answer |
| The Sun is thought to be 4.6 billion years old | How old is the Sun thought to be?
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The surface temperature on the side of Mercury closest to the Sun reaches 427 degrees Celsius, a temperature hot enough to melt tin. On the side facing away from the Sun, or the night side, the temperature drops to -183 degrees Celsius. | How hot does Mercury get on the side facing the sun?
| Venus rotates on its axis more slowly than any other planet. It completes one rotation in about 243 days and 24 minutes. | What does Venus do more slowly than any other planet?
| Earth is the planet that we live on, our planet, and is mostly covered by water (75%). | How much of the Earth is covered by water?
| Here are a few fun facts about Mars:Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest mountain in the solar system at more than 25 kilometers high (that’s three times higher than Mount Everest), it is covered by craters from objects like asteroids and meteorites hitting the planet,it has polar ice caps, much like Earth. Also like Earth, both ice caps are made mostly of frozen water, With so much water frozen in the ice caps of Mars, some scientists think that life could have once existed there | Describe the surface of Mars?
| Jupiter is a very stormy planet, and most of the storms seem to never end, the great red spot, is where a giant storm has been raging for at least 300 years. | What is happening at Jupiter's big Red Spot?
| Saturn has the lowest density of any planet in our solar system. Its density is so low that it would float if it was placed in water. | What would happen if Saturn were placed in water?
| Uranus is unique in our solar system because it is tilted 98 degrees, when viewed from Earth, it appears to rotate on its side! | When viewed from Earth, how does Uranus appear to rotate?
| Neptune has a weather system that is very active, some storms have winds of 400 miles per hour have lasted for hundreds of years on its surface. | What weather might we find on Neptune?
| This group decided that Pluto was not really a planet because of its size and location in space, o Pluto and objects like it are now called dwarf planets. | Do all astronomers think Pluto is a planet? |
