The planet Venus is named after the Roman goddess of beauty and love.0:09
Venus is the brightest planet in the solar system.0:14
We see it as the morning star or the evening star, depending on where it is on the journey around the Sun.0:17
Venus takes only 225 days to go around the Sun.0:24
So more than three years pass on Venus for every two years on Earth.0:29
It is the only planet to spin in the opposite direction to its orbit.0:34
Text 2 Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.0:42
It is twice the size of all the other planets put together.0:49
Jupiter's force of gravity is great.0:53
Anyone on Jupiter would weigh twice as much as on Earth.0:56
Astronomers believe that most of Jupiter is hot liquid hydrogen.0:59
Jupiter spins so fast that a day and night last less than 10 Earth hours.1:04
But a year in Jupiter is 12 times longer than one of ours.1:11
This is because Jupiter is much farther from the sun than we are.1:16
Text 3 the planet Mercury is one of the smallest planets in the solar system.1:23
It is also the closest to the Sun.1:31
It rotates on its axis in 59 of our days.1:34
During the long daylight hours, it is so hot that some metals could melt.1:38
During the long night, it grows unbelievably cold.1:43
Mercury possesses a thin atmosphere and big craters.1:48
It travels very fast through space.1:52
Its great speed and closeness to the sun give it the shortest year of all the planets.1:55
Text 4 Saturn is famous for the rings that circle it.2:04
These rings are made of millions of icy particles.2:11
Scientists believe that the rings may be the remains of a moon that drifted too close to Saturn and broke up.2:16
The planet is made up mainly of light gases.2:23
But scientists think that it may have a hard core.2:26
Saturn has 24 satellites.2:30
The largest of them is Titan.2:33
Titan is the only known moon to have an atmosphere a layer of gases around it.2:36
Text 5 the planet Mars is only about half the size of Earth.2:45
It takes about two years to travel around the Sun.2:52
The surface of Mars has huge volcanoes.2:56
The dust on the surface is red.3:01
This is why Mars is called the Red Planet.3:03
It has a north pole and a south pole, both covered with snow or frost.3:07
Seen through a telescope, the red surface of Mars is covered with thin grey lines.3:14
Some astronomers thought that these lines were canals which had been built by intelligent beings.3:20
But in fact, no canals were found on Mars.3:27
And so far, no kind of life has been found there either.3:30
A day on Mars is about the same length as an earth day.3:35
Text 6 Uranus is much further away from the sun than Earth.3:42
We cannot see Uranus using just our eyes.3:48
It was the first planet Discovered with the help of a telescope.3:51
It looks like a greenish yellow disc.3:55
Unlike our planet, Uranus is made up mainly of gases.3:58
Its whole surface is much colder than the coldest place on Earth.4:03
Uranus takes so long to orbit the sun that one of its years lasts 84 of ours.4:08
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