8 results for “planet”
Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
planets appear blue. Neptune is a deeper shade, for reasons that are still debated. Uranus: the planet
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
planets drift millions of leftover worlds: rocky asteroids, icy comets and dwarf planets like Pluto. They
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
planet. Visitors from Earth More spacecraft have been sent to Mars than to any other planet
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
planets closer to the Sun than Earth could hardly be more different: one a scorched, airless
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
planet is the jewel of the solar system, and its moons include a world with methane
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
planet, not a failed star. A planet without a surface Jupiter is a gas giant. There
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
planet, about a quarter of Earth's diameter, and rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
planet in orbit from billions of kilometres away. A nuclear furnace At the centre of the Sun, the weight
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