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You should now be familiar with the names of the planets, as well as the order that they are in. A useful mnemonic is:- |||||||||| My Very Expensive Mercedes Just Sped Under North Pier |||||||||| The letters in bold stand for the planets from the sun outwards so we have |||||||||||||||||||| Mercury Venus Earth Mars ------ sometimes called the inner planets |||||||||||||||||||| and ||||||||||| Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto ------ sometimes called the outer planets ||||||||||| Now try the explorer exercise. You must navigate from Pluto to the sun in order to 'traverse' the solar system, watch your spellings, good luck ......
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