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
JUPITER If you see a really bright star in the sky it night it might not be a star at all It might be the giant planet Jupiter MIGHTY JUPITER Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the biggest of all the solar system planets It s so big that more than 1 300 Earths would fit inside it Jupiter s stormy atmosphere is divided into light and dark
GREAT RED SPOT Lots of storms race around Jupiter The biggest is called the Great Red Spot It was seen for the first time more than 300 years ago and it's still there today WHAT S IT MADE O The Great Red Spot is a vast storm bigger than Earth Jupiter is made mostly of hydrogen with some helium and other gases Under Jupiter s clouds the gas is squashed so hard that it changes into a liquid SPA
