o S P A E PLANETS FAR FROM EARTH IAN GRAHAM Smart Apple Media
THE FAR PLANETS Eight planets travel around the Sun The four closest to the Sun are small worlds The four furthest from the Sun are giant planets GAS GIANTS The four planets furthest from the Sun are sometimes called gas giants because they have no solid surface no land Instead they are made mostly of liquid and gas Jupiter
G MANY MO O The far planets have lots O of moons Jupiter has the most with more than 65 All four of the far planets have more than 160 moons altogether The gas giants are cold worlds because they are So far from the Sun Saturn Uranus Neptune THE NINTH PLANET Until 2006 there was a ninth planet It was a tiny planet called Pluto But when more worlds like Pluto were found astronomers decided to call dwarf these small worlds
