ocr: MICROSUFT ENCARIA 97 ENCYCLOPEDIA Fea H Planets in our Solar System So Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Planets in our Solar System Nine known planets revolve around the sun in our solar system. The planets, shown here in order by their distance from the sun, vary greatly in size, rotation, color, and composition. For instance, Mercury, a small, hot planet, is a mean distance of 58 million km (36 million mi) from the sun, while icy Pluto is 5.9 billion km (3.67 billion mi) away. venus rotates relatively slowly around its axis, so that one day on the planet equals 58 ...
