All Planet Clues

Mercury
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1. I'm standing where you can see the Sun rise and set twice in the same day.
1. My goodness it's hot here! Hot enough to melt lead. But on the other side of this planet, I'd be freezing!
1. The planet I'm on orbits four times around the Sun for every time the Earth orbits!
1. The planet I'm on orbits the Sun every 88 Earth days. If I stick around, I'll get four birthdays every Earth year!
2. This planet is the fastest of all the planets. It zooms around the Sun at about 100,000 miles an hour! Wahoo!
2. This planet takes 59 Earth days to rotate once.
3. I'm on the closest neighbor to the Sun!
3. I'm on the second-smallest planet of all.

Venus
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1. *Cough* This greenhouse effect is not a healthy happening, and the sulfuric acid!
1. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on this planet traps sunlight and heats up the surface. This is called the greenhouse effect. It's hot enough here to melt lead.
1. Yikes! This place has three layers of thick clouds. They're mostly sulfuric acid. *Sigh* it's a deadly poison!
2. The brightest of all the planets we can see from Earth is where I am right now.
2. The mountains, craters, and other features on this planet are named after famous women.
3. I'm on the only planet named after a woman.
3. Look out for me, I'm on the second planet from the Sun!

Earth
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N/A

Moon
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1. Class, you'd all love it here! But Phoebe, for some reason this place reminds me especially of you.
1. I see footprints, and they're not my own!
1. My footprints are joining those footprints of explorers who have traveled here before me.
1. The regolith here is up to my ears!
1. The surface here is covered by a slippery, yellowish-gray dust. In some places, it's 50 feet deep.
2. From Earth, this place is the biggest thing in the night sky.
2. You know what? This is the only place in the whole solar system, besides Earth, where you would find a golfball.
3. ...And I was so looking forward to a bit of green cheese.
3. Some people claim that this place is made of green cheese. But don't be fooled! It's really made of rock covered in dust.
3. Wahoo! I'm circling the Earth!

Mars
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1. I'm looking straight at Olympus Mons. Now there's a volcano!
1. I'm standing near the longest-known canyon in the whole Solar System. If it was on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Hoowow!
1. I'm standing right beside the Valles Marineris. Now there's a canyon!
1. This planet has two moons called Phobos and Deimos. Their names mean "fear" and "panic".
1. You can find me on the planet that has the biggest-known volcano in the Solar System. It's three times higher than Mount Everest, and as big around at its base as Missouri.
2. Red dust, whew! Red dust everywhere! The dust even turns the thin atmosphere a pretty pink.
2. This place has so much red dust that it's piled up in big dunes.
2. This planet is nick-named the red planet.
3. As I always say, if Martians were real, they'd live here!
3. Hello? Now where are those little green men? I don't see a single one!
3. This planet is the fourth from the Sun.


Jupiter
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1. It only takes this planet 9.8 Earth hours to rotate once!
1. The four biggest moons here are called the Galilean Moons. They're named for the man who found them; that world-famous astronomer, Galileo!
1. There's a storm as wide as three planet Earths!
1. There's at least 16 moons here, some of them bigger than planets.
2. One of this planet's moons, Io, is the only known moon in the Solar System that has active volcanoes. Ooh I'm keeping my eyes peeled for lava!
2. This planet is named for the kings of the gods.
2. You could fill this planet up with 97,746 Plutos!
3. This is the biggest planet in the Solar System. It's humongous!
3. This planet is so big, it's more than one and a half times the size of all the other planets put together!

Saturn
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1. One of this planet's moons, Mimas, has a huge crater formed by a meteor that crashed into it long ago.
1. There are more moons here than anywhere.
2. It looks like there's one big ring around this planet, but it's really hundreds and hundreds of little rings. They're gorgeous!
2. This planet is so light that it could float in a bathtub, hmm! But you'd have to find a really big tub!
3. As I always say, this planet has the most beautiful rings in the whole Solar System!
3. Hi! I'm on the second biggest planet in the Solar System!

Uranus
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1. 21 years of summer would be an endless wonder.
1. Ariel, Titania, and Oberon are three of the moons that circle this planet.
1. Summer on this planet lasts 21 years. Wahoo! Of course, winter lasts 21 years too.
1. This planet's rings are a dark gray color
1. This planet's rotation has got a roll on its own!
2. One of the strangest moons in the whole Solar System, Miranda is here. It looks like somebody blew it apart and put it back together.
2. This planet has at least 15 moons, but they're so small that they'd all fit inside our moon
2. This planet's tilted on its side. Other planets spin like tops, but this one rolls!
3. Hi there! I'm on the seventh planet from the Sun!
3. I'm close to the last planet in the Solar System. From here, it's only two planets away.

Neptune
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1. One of this planet's moons is one of the few bodies in the Solar System that revolves backwards around its planet!
1. One of this planet's moons is one of the few geologically active bodies in the Solar System.
1. One of this planet's moons looks like a giant cantaloupe!
1. One of this planet's moons, Triton, has Geysers that shoot out liquid Nitrogen!
1. There's supposed to be a storm here that's 6,000 miles long!
2. If I've been driving the speed limit, it would've taken me 5,327 years to get here!
2. I'm hanging out on a planet named for the Roman god of the seas.
2. The great dark spot was a hurricane-like storm that circled this planet. It was as big as the Earth!
3. Sometimes, this planet is at the very edge of the Solar System.
3. The blue color here reminds me of the seas.

Pluto
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1. This planet's moon is called Charon.
1. This planet's moon is very close and almost the same size. Ooh they're practically twins!
2. This is the only planet that hasn't been visited by an Earth spacecraft... until we showed up anyway. Hmhmhm!
2. This planet is so far away, nobody really knows what it looks like. Hm, except me! Hmhm, because I'm right here!
3. This could be considered the loneliest planet.
3. This is the smallest planet.