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Temperatures of the Eight Planets (and Pluto)

Mercury has a temperature range of -184°C to 487°C (-300° to 800°F), both existing simultaneously on opposite sides of the planet.

Venus has a nearly constant, uniform temperature of about 464°C (867°F) due to its thick, heat-retaining atmosphere.

Earth has a range of temperatures between a minimum of -89 °C and a maximum of 56.7 °C (-128° to 134° F).

Mars temperatures range from a low of around -120°C to a high of about 20°C. (-174° to 68° F)

Jupiter has an atmospheric temperature as low as -110°C (-166°F) but heats to nearly 36000°C deep inside the crushingly dense lower atmosphere, where despite the heat hydrogen is actually compressed to a solid state.

Saturn, a gas giant like Jupiter, ranges from around -175°C (-285°F) to nearly 11700°C deep below the clouds.

Uranus has the coldest atmosphere of any planet, a minimum of -224°C (-371°F), but it still has a hot slush of water and methane farther within, where temperatures reach 6550°C.

Neptune obviously receives almost no heat from the Sun, but creates an internal heat of around 5000°C. Still, at the top of its clouds, it is as cold as -200°C (-328°F)

The dwarf planet Pluto has neither solar heating nor a dense atmosphere, and its thin atmosphere consists of frozen gases, which only thaw slightly at its closest approach to the Sun. The maximum temperature is still barely above absolute zero, about -230°C (-382°F).

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Why are the temperatures on each of the other terrestrial planet more extreme than the temperatures on earth?

because there isn't an atmosphere


What are the temperatures one each planet?

Allot! i don't really know! oh well!


How does life survive on each planet?

If you mean Human Life... we can't survive on another planet. but if you mean the planets life, it is just acustomed to the planets temperatures, weather, and/or whatever it throws at it like us on planet earth. we are used to the earths temperatures, and weather.


Why are the temperatures of each terrestrial planet different than earth?

Their distance from the Sun as well as their atmosphere - presence or absence as well as its composition (if present)..


Are there seasonal temperatures on Saturn?

The planet Saturn has four season, however, the temperatures for the seasons changes are from the surface temperature that changes little with the latitude. The warmth of the temperatures are not by the sun, but by the warmth of the planet.


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How are the planet distance from the sun generally relat to temperatures?

Generally speaking, the further a planet is from the sun, the colder the planet is.


Which planet has a greater range of temperatures than any other planet?

Mercury


Temperatures on mercury-?

Mercury is a very hot planet. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.


Which planet excercises the smallest range of temperatures?

Earth


Does Mercury the planet have weather patterns?

The planet Mercury does not have weather patterns just wild temperatures.


Why is the planet Mercury not inhabitated?

The temperatures on Mercury are too extreme for humans to survive. There is also no oxygen on the planet.