COSMOS

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• Sun A G-type star holding 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Surface about 5,500 °C.
• Mercury Smallest planet, 88-day year, heavily cratered, no real atmosphere.
• Venus Hottest planet at 465 °C, wrapped in thick sulfuric-acid clouds.
• Earth Our home: liquid oceans, one Moon, a 365-day year.
• Mars Cold rust-red desert with two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos.
• Jupiter Largest planet, banded gas giant with the Great Red Spot and 95+ moons.
• Saturn Gas giant circled by bright ice rings; Titan is its largest moon.
• Uranus Pale cyan ice giant that rolls around the Sun tilted on its side.
• Neptune Deep-blue ice giant with the fastest winds in the solar system.