Getting bored of with all its trees, water, and singing birds?

Well, now you can choose to buy real estate on any one of the other 8 (known) luxurious planets.
(Just don't forget to come back home...
you weren't made to survive on the other planets! :)

PLANET	DESCRIPTION	ATMOSPHERE
MERCURY	"...surface consists of rough, porous, dark-colored rock...Spectroscopic studies indicate that only an extremely thin atmosphere, containing sodium and potassium, exists on Mercury, its atoms apparently diffusing from the crust of the planet." Temperature: -180ð ´o 430ð ƒ (-290ð ´o 810ð †)	Sodium, Helium, Hydrogen, Oxygen
VENUS	"...the atmosphere of the planet consists of nearly all carbon dioxide (CO2). The cloud base is at 50 km (31 mi), and the cloud particles are mostly concentrated sulfuric acid. The planet has no detectable magnetic field.  Water and water vapor are extremely rare on Venus." Temperature: 459ð ƒ (858ð †)	Carbon dioxide, nitrogen (traces of water vapor, argon, carbon monoxide, neon, sulfur dioxide)
MARS	"The Martian atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide (95 percent), nitrogen (2.7 percent), argon (1.6 percent), oxygen (0.2 percent), and trace amounts of water vapor, carbon monoxide...Mars is like a very cold, high-altitude desert. Surface temperatures are too cold and surface pressures too low for water to exist in the liquid state in most places on the planet." Temperature: -87ð ´o 17ð ƒ (-189ð ´o 63ð †)	Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, krypton, neon, carbon monoxide, xenon, and water vapor
JUPITER	"Spectroscopic observations from earth had demonstrated that most of Jupiter's atmosphere is molecular hydrogen, H2.  Jupiter's turbulent, cloud-filled atmosphere is therefore cold.   With hydrogen so abundant, hydrogen-based molecules, such as methane, ammonia, and water, predominate." Temperature: -125ð ´o 17ð ƒ (-193ð ´o 63ð †)	Hydrogen, helium (also traces of methane, ammonia, carbon monoxide, ethane, acetylene, phosphine, and water vapor)
SATURN	"Saturn's atmospheric constituents are, in order by mass, hydrogen (88 percent) and helium (11 percent); and the remainder comprises traces of methane, ammonia, ammonia crystals, and such other gases as ethane, acetylene, and phosphine." Temperature: -176ð ƒ (-285ð †)	Hydrogen, helium (also traces of methane, ammonia, ethane, and phosphine)
URANUS	"Uranus's atmosphere consists largely of hydrogen and helium, with a trace of methane.  Uranus's magnetic field, however, is only a tenth as strong as earth's..." Temperature: -216ð ƒ (-357ð †)	Hydrogen, helium, methane
NEPTUNE	"The atmosphere consists mostly of hydrogen and helium, but the presence of up to three percent methane gives the planet its striking blue color." Temperature: -218ð ƒ (-360ð †)	Hydrogen, helium, methane
PLUTO	"Pluto was also found to have a thin atmosphere, probably of methane, exerting a pressure on the planet's surface that is about 100,000 times weaker than the earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level.   With a density about twice that of water, Pluto is apparently made of much rockier material than are the other planets of the outer solar system." Temperature: -223ð ´o -233ð ƒ (-369ð ´o -387ð †)	Methane
	Home to EARTHlings!	You can breathe the air and drink the water...if you want technical information, goto the links below \/

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PLANETS ONLINE:

• Very informative & detailed; lots of pictures; some animations
  (need quicktime to view) @ solarviews.com

• Fun & Interactive, including games and flash tour of the planets
  (need speakers!) @ spacekids.com  (If you use their flash tour,
  you have to click inside of the circle when the credits are
  rolling, or the rest of the movie will never play - this will
  make sense once you get there.)

• A dictionary to help you with all these technical words :)

ALL pictures and information about the planets on this page courtesy of:
Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation