Jupiter facts- Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.

Its famous 'Red Spot' and

raging gas storms give it an impressive if not intimidating appearance. As well as having many moons, Jupiter also has a number of rings similar to that of Saturn but much less noticeable. It is so big that more than 1300 Earths could fit inside it. Thick, colorful clouds of deadly poisonous gases surround Jupiter. The quick spinning of the planet whips up the atmosphere, creating the bands around the planet. If you were to descend into Jupiter, the thin, cold atmosphere becomes thicker and hotter, gradually turning into a thick, dark fog. Jupiter has many storms raging on the surface, most notably the big red spot which is the largest hurricane in our Solar System. It's been raging for over three hundred years. Lastly Jupiter was the roman name for Zeus.

Saturn is a gas giant made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. Saturn is the second largest planet, big enough to hold more than 760 Earths, and is more massive than any other planet except Jupiter. Saturn has the lowest density of all the planets, and is the only one less dense than water if there were a bathtub big enough to hold it, Saturn would float on top.
Saturn facts- Saturn was the roman name for cronus the roman god. Uranus- Uranus is the 7 planet closest to the sun out of the 8 in the solar system. Even though that urnaus is the 7 planet it is not the smallest. In fact it is the third biggest in diameter. Uranus,

the first planet discovered in modern times, was discovered by William Herschel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March 13, 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but ignored as simply another star (the earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged it as 34 Tauri). Herschel named it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, the infamous (to Americans) King george III of England; others called it "Herschel". The name "Uranus" was first proposed by Bode in conformity with the other planetary names from classical mythology but didn't come into common use until 1850. Read more about Uranus l Uranus facts, pictures and information. by nineplanets.org

Neptune- The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky. (Galileo had recorded it as a fixed star during observations with his small telescope in 1612 and 1613.) When Uranus didn't travel exactly as astronomers expected it to, a French mathematician, Urbain Joseph Le Verrier, proposed the position and mass of another as yet unknown planet that could cause the observed changes to Uranus's orbit. After being ignored by French astronomers, Le Verrier sent his predictions to Johann Gottfried Galle at the Berlin Observatory, who found Neptune on his first night of searching in 1846. Seventeen days later, its largest moon, Triton, was also discovered. Despite its great distance from the sun and lower energy input, Neptune's winds are three times stronger than Jupiter's and nine times stronger than Earth's.

In 1989, Voyager 2 tracked a large, oval, dark storm in Neptune's southern hemisphere. This hurricane-like Great Dark Spot was observed to be large enough to contain the entire Earth. It spun counterclockwise and moved westward at almost 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) per hour. (Subsequent images from the Hubble Space Telescope showed no sign of the Great Dark Spot photographed by Voyager. A comparable spot appeared in 1994 in Neptune's northern hemisphere but had disappeared by 1997.) Voyager 2 also photographed clouds casting shadows on a lower cloud deck, enabling scientists to visually measure the altitude differences between the upper and lower cloud decks. Pluto- Pluto isnt condsidered a planet any more but we are going to explain why scientists believe that it is not a planet. They were actually looking for signs of a ring system when they stumbled across another tiny object now imaginatively called "P4" bringing Pluto's moon count to four.
This is quite a nice little news story in its own right, and covered by my Discovery News colleague Irene Klotz (see the July 20 article: " Hubble Discovers New Pluto Moon"). llHowever, what I hadn't anticipated was a deluge of messages asking me if this means Pluto is now a planet again. Well, the answer is a resounding no. It is still, and always will be, a dwarf planet.