Solar System Temperatures
Solar System Temperatures: Mean Temperatures on Each Planet
A: Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, with surface temperatures reaching up to 462°C (863°F). Q: What is the coldest moon in the Solar System? A: Triton, Neptune's moon, is the coldest moon in the Solar System, with surface temperatures reaching as low as -235°C (-391°F).
• The sun's surface has a temperature of 10,000º F (5800K) while its corona exceeds 2,000,000 degrees F (over 1,000,000K). • The surface of Mercury, having little atmosphere, feels the full brunt of the solar furnace. • Venus' thick atmosphere traps and stores the solar heat, giving it the highest surface temperature of the planets.
A: Triton, Neptune's moon, is the coldest moon in the Solar System, with surface temperatures reaching as low as -235°C (-391°F). Q: What factors influence the surface temperature of a planet or moon?
• Being such great distances from the sun, Uranus' and Neptune's moons are cold enough to have frozen water, ammonia, and methane on their surfaces. • Triton, at only 38 degrees above absolute zero, has the coldest measured temperature in the solar system. It has geysers spouting nitrogen gas which freezes and rains onto its surface.
Solar System Temperatures: Mean Temperatures on Each Planet
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