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which planet is which
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08/16/2023

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Earth
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Water covers 70% of its surface.The atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen and has plenty of oxygen for us to breathe
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Mars
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a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere
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Saturn
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a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.Is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as it's
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Mercury
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one of the rocky planets, It has a solid surface that is covered with craters like our Moon. It has a thin atmosphere, and it doesn't have any moons
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Jupiter
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covered in swirling cloud stripes. It has big storms like the Great Red Spot, which has been going for hundreds of years
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Venus
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a thick, toxic atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide and it's perpetually shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid that trap heat, causing a runaway greenhouse effect
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Uranus
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one of two ice giants in the outer solar system. Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane, and ammonia – above a small rocky core
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Neptune
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made of a thick soup of water, ammonia, and methane over an Earth-sized solid center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane
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