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Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. It's just a little bigger than Earth's moon....
Venus isn't the closest planet to the Sun but it's still the hottest. With a thick atmosphere full of the greenhouse gas, clouds made of sulfuric acid.
Our home planet Earth is a rocky, terrestrial planet. Earth is special because it is an ocean planet. Water covers 70% of Earth's surface.
Mars is a cold desert world. It is half the size of Earth. Mars is sometimes called the Red Planet. It's red because of rusty iron in the ground.
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. Similar to a star, but it never got massive enough to start burning. It has big storms like the Great Red Spot, which has been going for hundreds of years.
Saturn isn't the only planet to have rings, but it definitely has the most beautiful ones. The rings we see are made of groups of tiny ringlets that surround Saturn.
Uranus is made of water, methane, and ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium like Jupiter and Saturn
Neptune is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our solar system. It's more than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth is.