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Hi, my name is Manny the Martian, and I am 

going to show you how the solar system was 

formed.

The solar system was created because of a 

thing called the big bang.

The big bang started as small material that 

after colliding together created material. That 

material expanded and became very hot. 

The sun was formed when all the hot material after 

the big bang started to move together by a force 

called gravity.

Most of the material that formed the sun is 

hydrogen gas with a little bit of helium gas too.

An interesting fact, because the sun is not solid so 

when it rotates parts of the sun do not rotate at 

the same time.

The first planet is Mercury. Mercury is the smallest planet, and 

it has no atmosphere. I can't live on Mercury because it is to 

hot.

Mercury was formed almost the same way as the sun, by 

gravity. Rock like material started to get pulled together to 

make the planet.

The second planet is Venus. Venus is a very strange planet. 

It's landscape has a lot of volcanoes and craters. It also spins 

backwards!

Unfortunately, there is no life on Venus because the 

atmosphere traps the heat from the sun making it very hot. Its 

air is also made of many toxic elements like carbon dioxide, 

nitrogen, and sulfuric acid.

    Earth is next. Earth was formed after the big bang, like all 

the other planets. At first it was small debris colliding 

together, but eventually the debris started to stick together. 

Earth started to grow bigger and the gas that was helping 

keep it together made it very hot and molten, like lava. Then, 

Earth started to cool and the lava started to harden.

    Earth is the only planet that we know of to have the 

amount of water it has. It is the only known planet to sustain 

life too!

    The next planet is Mars, the red planet. Mars is a solid 

planet like Earth, Venus, and Mercury. Its thin atmosphere is 

made of carbon dioxide, argon, and Nitrogen. Also, the iron 

minerals of metal start to rust and dust which gives it the red 

color.

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