Planets and their Characteristics
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| Atmosphere: none | Mercury
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| Rotation Rate: solar day takes 1.5 orbits | Mercury
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| Most Elongated Orbit, Sun Makes Retrograde Loops | Mercury
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| Magnetic Field: 1% Earth's Intensity | Mercury
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| Temp: noon: 400C; 4 mo. night: -150C | Mercury
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| First Space Probe to Use Gravitational Slingshot | Mariner 10: Mercury
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| Atmospheric Pressure: 90x Earth | Venus
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| Severe Case of Global Warming | Venus
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| Rotates Clockwise | Venus
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| Most Nearly Circular Orbit | Venus
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| Magnetic Field: None | Venus
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| Hottest Temperature | Venus: 450C
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| First Space Probe to Land on a Planet | Venera 7: Venus
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| Standing in a Hole Horizon, Hostile Environment | Venus
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| Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East | Venus
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| Van Allen Belts | Trap charged particles except at North and South Poles -> Aurora
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| Least Stable Surface | Earth
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| First Man on the Moon | Apollo 11
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| Atmosphere: 1% of Earth- still enough to form clouds and dust storms | Mars
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| Similar Rotation Axis and Seasons to Earth (2) | Mars, Saturn
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| Temp: Similar to Antarctica | Mars
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| Solar Day Same as Long as Earth | Mars
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| Magnetic Field: none | Mars
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| Two Moons: Phobos and Deimos | Mars
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| Moon that Rises in the West | Phobos (Mars)
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| Mars Global Surveyor | chilled for 9 years and took pictures
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| First Rover, Used Airbags | Pathfinder: Mars
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| Atmosphere of Hydrogen and Helium, no real surface (2) | Jupiter, Saturn
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| Solar Day Half as Long as Earth (2) | Jupiter, Saturn
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| Temp: -234F | Jupiter
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| Temp: -270F | Saturn
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| Magnetic Field Same as Earth (2) | Saturn, Uranus
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| Atmosphere (60% higher than Earth) Concealed by High Ice Cloud | Saturn
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| 62+ Moons | Jupiter
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| Jupiter's First Flybys | Pioneer 10 & 11
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| First to Go into Orbit around Jupiter | Galileo
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| Great Red Spot | Jupiter
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| Dark Rings Hard to See- Shepard Moons Contain Rings through Gravitational Interactions | Jupiter
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| Largest Moon: Titan | Saturn
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| Moon with Methane Snow, Ice, and Oceans | Titan: Saturn
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| Square Dancing Moons | J&E: Saturn
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| Saturn's Flyby | Pioneer 11
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| First to Target Titan | Voyager 1
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| Cassini-Huygens | First Orbiter-Lander (Saturn)
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| Hexagonal Cloud | Saturn
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| Atmosphere: Hydrogen, Helium, Methane | Uranus
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| Methane Makes Planet Blue (2) | Uranus, Neptune
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| 17 Hour Solar Day | Uranus
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| Axis at Plane of Orbit shows a Ring System that is seen as Near-Circles | Uranus
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| Sideways Axis; Magnetic Field thought to be generated from the surface, not the center (2) | Uranus, Neptune
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| Temp: -357F | Uranus
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| Largest Moon: Titania | Uranus
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| Moon with a Check Mark | Miranda (Uranus)
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| Only Space Probe to visit Uranus and Neptune | Voyager 2
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| Temp: -353F | Neptune
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| Largest Moon: Triton | Neptune
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