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fastest orbiting

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Mercury

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longest day (2 years)

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Mercury

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Caloris Basin (800mi impact crater)

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Mercury

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visited by Mariner 10

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Mercury

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BepiColombo mission to start in 2025

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Mercury

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MESSENGER probe crashed here in 2015

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Mercury

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3:2 spin-orbit resonance with the Sun

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Mercury

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smallest planet

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Mercury

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“Weird Terrain”

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Mercury

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10
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hottest planet

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Venus

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11
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carbon dioxide atmosphere with possible sulfuric acid clouds

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Venus

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12
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visited by Mariner 2

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Venus

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13
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pancake domes

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Venus

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14
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mapped by the Magellan probe

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Venus

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15
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Ishtar Terra

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Venus

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16
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Maxwell Montes

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Venus

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17
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Aphrodite Terra

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Venus

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18
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Alta Regio and Beta Regio volcano clusters

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Venus

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moons are Phobos and Deimos

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Mars

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Olympus Mons (largest in SS)

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Mars

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21
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carbon dioxide atmosphere with water polar caps

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Mars

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22
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Pathfinder mission

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Mars

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Viking probes

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Mars

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24
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red planet

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Mars

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25
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Curiosity rover

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Mars

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Giovanni Schiaparelli made sketches of this planet that incorrectly depicted canals

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Mars

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27
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Tharsis Bulge

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Mars

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28
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the rocks Barnacle Bill and Yogi were analyzed by the Sojourner rover

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Mars

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equator features the Valles Marineris

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Mars

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Great Red Spot

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gossamer rings

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the moons Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa discovered by Galileo

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largest planet

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planet’s gravity creates Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt

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Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and collided

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clouds of this planet are made up of frozen ammonia crystals

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shortest day and longest year

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a group of exoplanets named for this planet prefixed ‘hot’

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gas giant along with Saturn

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A and B rings separated by the Cassini Division

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gas giant along with Jupiter

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Enke and Keeler Gaps in the A rings

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gaps named for Columbo, Maxwell, and Huygens

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hexagonal storm along the North Pole

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“String of Pearls” storms

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Titan is its largest moon

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moons of Rhea, Enceladus, Mimas, Iapetus

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“Great White Spot”

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retrograde orbit

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coldest atmosphere in the solar system

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42 years of light then 42 years of darkness at the poles

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moons of Oberon, Miranda, Titania, Umbriel and other Shakespeare characters

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has extreme axial tilt

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not much known about the surface due to a thick cloud layer

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methane in the atmosphere absorbs red light giving the planet a blue-green hue

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ice giant along with Neptune

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ice giant along with Uranus

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Great Dark Spot

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highest wind speeds in the solar system

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moons of Triton, Nereid, Proteus

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The Mazomba impact crater

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fast-moving storm named Scooter

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The Wizard’s Eye

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location predicted by Urbain Le Verrier

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plutinos and twotinos share orbital resonance with the planet

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outermost rings called the Adams Ring

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arcs of the outer ring named Fraternité, Égalité, and Liberté

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still considered the ninth planet by those who are based

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said to be the first Kuiper Belt Object discovered

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heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio

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moons of Charon, Styx, Nix

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its moon is The Moon

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a collision with Theia may have created its only satellite

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Chicxulub crater

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