The Terrestrial Planets
The most dense planets in the solar system.
Earth
The least dense planet in our solar system.
Saturn
This planet was demoted from Planet to dwarf planet in 2006.
Pluto
The largest moon in our solar system, even bigger than Mercury.
Ganymede
The two most abundant elements in our sun.
Hydrogen and Helium
This planet boosts the solar system's largest volcano, Olympus Mons.
Mars
This planet has the shortest day in the solar system.
Jupiter
The only dwarf planet located in the Asteroid belt.
Ceres
This moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active body in our solar system.
Io
This process occurs in the sun's core and liberates energy.
nuclear fusion
This planet's day is longer than its year.
Venus
This planet rotates on its side (98 degree tilt).
Uranus
Named after a creator god in Rapa Nui mythology (Easter Island)
Makemake
This largest moon of Saturn has a nitrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid methane lakes.
Titan
These features in the photosphere are due to magnetic fields protruding through the surface.
sun spots
This planet has the fast orbital velocity in the solar system.
Mercury
The most distant planet in the solar system @ 30 AU
Neptune
This dwarf planet has two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka.
Haumea
These two small moons of Mars are likely captured asteroids.
Phobos and Deimos
An event in which energetic and highly magnetized plasma erupts from the solar corona into space.
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
The most space missions of all the planets.
Mars
The Voyager 1 Spacecraft did a flyby of these planets.
Jupiter and Saturn
The farthest officially recognized dwarf planet from the Sun.
Eris
The only large moon in our solar system that orbits its planet in a retrograde direction
Triton
Large, bright, looping structures of plasma that extend from the Sun's surface into its outer atmosphere
Prominences