By Team Aakash Byju's

7 Unknown Facts About the Solar System

If you ever manage to travel to the planets, you might be in for a bit of a shock when you step off the spaceship.

most of the planets don’t have solid surfaces. Let us see some facts that are out of this world!

One can’t stand on the planet Uranus. This is because it has a rocky core but is mainly made up of big spheres of hydrogen and helium.

If Planning to go mars is not equal to planning visit the next station, then please note this; the average temperature is roughly -60°C.

Have studied rings on the planet Saturn? They are made up of 90% of water. But the water is in a frozen ice state due to its farther distance from the Sun.

The biggest moon of the planet Jupiter is larger than the planet Mercury. It has a salty ocean that contains more water than on Earth.

How many days would the Earth need to orbit the Sun? A year, correct? Interestingly, planet mercury orbits the Sun in just 3 months!

You may be bored of taking long-haul flights to the other side of the world but you would need about 206 days to fly round the Sun!

This is astonishing! For Earth, it takes one day to complete one full rotation. But Venus needs about 243 days to complete that rotation. This means that 1 day on Venus is the same as 1 year on Earth!