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Interesting Facts about the Inner Planets
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:36 PM

The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Close to the Sun and separated from the much larger Outer Planets by an asteroid belt. Sometimes called terrestrial planets and are composed of rock. Due to their hard surfaces, these planets have canyons, craters, mountains, and volcanoes. Few or no moons. Developed from small grains of dust that collided... Read More...

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Interesting Facts about Venus
Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:59 PM

closest in size to Earth (95% of our diameter) rotates backwards compared to other planets no moons densest atmosphere of carbon dioxide (96%) with sulfur dioxide clouds 92 times the pressure of Earth's atmosphere one day on Venus is 243 Earth days one year on Venus is 225 Earth days hottest planet with temperatures above 860 ° F Read More...

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