Does the distance of each planet from the sun has something to do with the planet's temperature?

Answer 1

Yes, but it is not the only thing that affects the planet's temperature. For example

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun roasts on one side and is extremely cold on he dark side because it has no atmosphere.

Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth and is hotter than it should be because of a runaway greenhouse effect caused by it's super dense atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide.

Mars , the next planet after Earth, is colder than it should be because most of it's atmosphere has leaked away into space

Some moons of planets in the outer solar system are hotter than they should be due to tidal forces deforming them, or due to internal radioactive decay.

To sum up, the presence of an atmosphere, it's density and types of gases it is made from has more to do with a planet's surface temperature than it's distance from the Sun.

Answer 2

All planets in our Solar System are located within a different orbital range from the sun as counted in distances usually in Astronomical Units, or the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. The Inverse-Square law states that a specified physical quantity (In this case distance) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity. This means that Earth is sitting at a comfortable distance of one astronomical unit or about 93 million miles while Jupiter is about 5au. Therefore the intensity of Sunlight that Jupiter gets is 25 times weaker then the Earth.

Answer 3

In general the planets closer to the Sun are warmer.
The temperature of the planets depends on the atmosphere of the planet more than the distance from the sun. Hypothetically, though, if all the planets had identical atmospheres, the temperature of each planet would be directly proportional to the distance from the sun.

Answer 4

Sunlight is the source of warmth for planets. The amount of sunlight is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the Sun. Hence, more distant planets get a lot less sunlight and are a lot colder.

However, other things can also affect a planet's surface temperature.

For example:

1) Slow rotation can mean large differences between "daytime" and "night"

temperatures, eg. Mercury.

2) Greenhouse effect, eg. Venus.

3) Internal heat source, eg. Jupiter, Neptune.

4) The planet's "albedo". That's a measure of how much sunlight and other radiation a particular planet reflects.

Answer 5

It relates because if the planet is closer resieves more light from the sun.