planets in our solar system

   Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it is also the smallest of the eight planets in our solar system. For every 2 orbits of the sun which takes around 88 earth days, mercury completes three rotations of it axis.it is gravitationally locked and this rotation is unique to the solar system.
 

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and the second - smallest planet in the solar system after mercury.

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the sun in the solar system it is the fourth- largest planet by diameter the third most massive planet and the densest.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. it has the third - largest planetary radius and fourth largest planetary mass in the solar system

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in the solar system. It is a giant planet with a mass one- thousand that of the sun but two- and a half times that of all the other planets in the solar system.

Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has the longest rotation period of any planet in the Solar System and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets.