…was the first planet discovered by telescope in 1781?
…is by the hottest planet in our solar system at 460°C, hot enough to melt lead?
…was discovered solely by mathematical calculations in 1846?
…was named by an 11 year old girl in Oxford, England in 1930?
…does not have a moon, and wouldn’t be able to due to the Sun’s gravitational pull?
…is home to the ever-burning Darvaza gas crater, nicknamed the “Door to Hell”?
…was made into a “sandwich” in 2020, when two slices of bread were placed on opposite sides of the planet?
…was re-classified as a dwarf planet in 2006?
…is home to a massive, extremely radioactive mass, which formed in 1986, known as the “elephant’s foot”?
…is named after the Roman god of war?
…has several active global tectonic plates, including the Nazca, Cocos, and Juan de Fuca plates?
…is the most similar to Earth in size and shape, often called its “twin”?
…has a moon named Triton, who, in Greco-Roman mythology, was the son of this planet’s namesake?
…is home to the Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth which has been ongoing for hundreds of years?
…has concrete evidence that water once flowed on its surface, and has a canyon system dwarfing the Grand Canyon?
…is covered in volcanoes and sulfuric acid clouds?
…has two moons, Phobos and Deimos?
…has dust storms which last for months and cover the entire planet?
…has a density lower than water?
…has days which are twice as long as its years due to its fast orbit and slow rotation?
…has a consistent and clear hexagonal cloud pattern at its north pole?
…has the highest gravitational pull, at 2.54g?
…has rings made of ice and dust which extend over 280,000km from its surface, but are only around 9 meters thick?
…is the smallest of the gas giants?
…ranges from 430°C during the day to -180°C at night?
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