What Is The Solar System

MARS

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury. In English, Mars carries the name of the Roman god of war and is often referred to as the “Red Planet“.^[18][19] The latter refers to the effect of the iron oxide prevalent on Mars’s surface, which gives it a reddish appearance, that is distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye.^[20] Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, with surface features reminiscent of the impact craters of the Moon, and the valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.

Go to page 7 for a photo of Mars

JUPITER

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the Earth‘s night sky after the Moon and Venus. People have been observing it since prehistoric times; it was named after the Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods, because of its observed size.

some pictures of Jupiter on page 5