Our Solar System

This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.

	Mercury << It is covered with billions of craters where meteorites have struck its surface.		Venus << This planet together with Mercury, are only planets without a moon.		Earth << The planet we call 'home'---a giant ball of rock and metal that orbits the Sun.
	Mars << The forth closest to the sun		Jupiter << This 'gas-giant' planet is larger than all of the other 'gas-giant' planets combined.		Saturn << Named after the Roman god of agriculture.
	Uranus << One of the 'gas-giants'.		Neptune <<Though it is called the eighth planet, Neptune is sometimes farther from the Sun than Pluto.		Pluto << This planet is only two-thirds the size of Earth's moon.

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