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Pluto's surface is a patchwork of creamy-white, ice-covered areas and dark brown dirt-covered areas. The brownish color comes from tarry— carbon-rich substances that cover the dark areas. These substances are probably produced from the action of ultraviolet light on the methane in Pluto's atmosphere ...

... think Pluto is large enough to be called a planet; some people don't. Pluto is a ball of rock and ice, but that doesn't mean it's not a planet. The Earth is just a ball of rock if you want to think of it that way. But in any case, what we call Pluto makes no difference to what it is. It's a very ...

The warmest places on Pluto are about -360° F. Pluto's core will be much warmer, maybe as hot as 2000° F, kept warm by ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Pluto's mass is about 13,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, which sounds like a lot, but that's nearly 500 times less than the mass of the Earth. ---- Answer provided by ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Venus is a rocky barren dry planet. The surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft are the earliest color pictures of Venus's surface. Venera 13 was the first of the Venera missions to include a color TV camera and the first to succeed ...

... looks like our Moon. Venus is always cloud-covered. Mars mostly looks like a red desert. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are giant gas planets. Pluto may be a large ball of ...

... strange. We know from analyzing the infrared light reflected from Pluto that its surface is a mixture of a lot of different sorts of ice (ordinary water ice, plus frozen ... any close-up pictures yet. The New Horizons spacecraft that we hope to launch to Pluto in 2006 will take close-up pictures in 2015. Pictures will tell us a lot ... . It will be a long time before we are able to do that. Fortunately there's a lot we can learn without bringing any pieces back to Earth. ---- Answer provided by ...

... an elliptical orbit tilted 45 degrees to the plane of the solar system's eight major planets. It is so far away that it takes 560 years for this planet to complete ... most distant point from the Sun, the planet is about twice as distant as Pluto. At its closest, it passes inside the orbit of Pluto. ---- Answer provided by Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall ...

Pluto is about 70 percent as big as the Earth's Moon, or 18 percent as big as the Earth. It's the smallest planet but is twice the size of the largest asteroid, Ceres ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Neptune's atmosphere is made up of many gases—some very toxic— such as methane, ethane, hydrogen, helium and ammonia, which give the planet a deep blue color. ---- Answer provided by ...

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