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Mercury The nearest planet to the sun, this dry rocky landscape is dominated by impact craters and wrinkle ridges. |
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Venus Thick sulphuric acid clouds cloak the vast lava plains, studded with volcanoes and volcanic domes. |
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Earth The coexistence of liquid water and solid landscape is the most striking feature of our planet. |
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Mars Huge canyons, dry river beds and shallow impact craters dominate the landscape of the red planet. |
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Jupiter Jupiter, planet of the Gods, shadows the horizon of Io. A surface of molten volcanic pools and sulphur rich crater walls. |
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Saturn The icy smooth surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is almost entirely composed of reflective water ice and silicate rock. |
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Uranus From the frozen cliffs and craters of Miranda the horizon is dominated by Uranus, 80 thousand miles away. |
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Neptune Neptune is seen from the surface of Triton, its major moon. A surface of solid nitrogen ice broken by volcanoes emitting black nitrogen dust clouds.. |
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Pluto Above Pluto's cratered surface of frozen nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, hangs Charon its giant moon. |
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