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Mercury |
like the moon: no atmosphere, liquid water, life--hot as lead temps geologically dead |
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Venus |
sister to earth..same mass almost retrograde rotation COMPLETE CLOUD COVER c02 atmosphere active volcanoes |
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Mars |
Phobos and Deimos Moons thin co2 amtosphere cold dry red polar caps volcanism |
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Jupiter |
largest ammonia clouds red spot less dense than earth hydrogen and helium rock, ice core faint rings 16 satellites |
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Io |
active volcanism bc of jupiter rock and water |
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Ganmede |
geologically active |
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Callisto |
geologically dead
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Saturn |
hydrogen and helium second largest planet dozens of moons like Titan which has organic compounds that can yield life and methane atmosphere
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Saturns rings |
four of them |
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Uranus |
5 moons mostly hydrogen helium atmosphere |
