Our Solar System About :Mercury Mercury has the most eccentric orbit of all the planets.It's orbit is an ellipse, varying it,s distance to the Sun.At the closest point, Mecury gets within 46milion km from the sun.At it's farthest;70 million km from the Sun.Mercury's orbit helped prove Einstein's theories of relativity. About:Venus Venus is 96.5% carbon dixode and can get hotter than 460 degress celcius.That is 410 degress celcius hotter than tne hottest desert on our planet.The tempareture on venus doesn't vary either;from the nount pole to the south it is consisent. About:Earth A year on Earth isn't 365 days.it's actually 365.2564.it's this extra 2564 days that creates the need for leap years.That's why we tack on an extra day in February every year divisible by 4 (2004,2008,etc) - unless it's divisible by 100 - (1900,2100,etc)... unless it's divisible by 400 (1600,2000,etc). About:Mars Mars has the longest, deepest canyon in the Solar System. One of the most distinct features on the surface of Mars is the Valles Marineris canyon. It stretches 4,000 km along the equator of Mars, and can be as deep as 7 km in places. If you could move the Valles Marineris to Earth, it would stretch right across the United States. About:Jupiter For all its size and mass,Jupiter sure moves quickly. In fact,the planet only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis.And because it's spinning so rapidly,the planet has flattened out a little and is bulging at is equator . In fact , points on Jupiter equater are more than 4,600 km further from the center than the poles.
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