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= MSB Solar: Hints for Finding Ms. Frizzle on the Planets =

Article ID: 165945

Article Last Modified on 9/4/2002

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 * Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System

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SUMMARY
The following article lists the hints for finding which planet Ms. Frizzle is hiding on.



MORE INFORMATION
To find Ms. Frizzle, you must visit the planet where she is hiding, and then click the "Frizz-finder." The hints are listed below under each planet's name. The planets are listed in alphabetical order.

JUPITER
There's at least 16 moons here -- some of them bigger than planets.

You could fill this planet up with 97,746 Plutos.

This planet is so big it is more than 1 1/2 times the size of all the other planets put together.

There's a storm as wide as 3 planet Earths.

This planet is so big that it almost could have become a star.

It only takes this planet 9.8 hours to rotate once.

This planet is named for the king of gods.

This is the biggest planet in the solar system. It's humongous!

MARS
I'm standing near the longest known canyon in the whole solar system. If it was on Earth it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles...Wow!

Red dust  Red dust everywhere. The red dust even turns the atmosphere a pretty pink.

This planet is nicknamed the red planet.

This planet has two moons called Phoebus and Deimos, their names mean fear and panic.

This planet has so much red dust that it is piled up in dunes.

Hello, now where are those little green men. I don't see a single one!

MERCURY
The atmosphere here is made of helium and is so thin that if you collected all of it from a four mile diameter it would be just enough to fill a small party balloon.

If the sun were the size of a basketball, this place would be no bigger than the tip of a ballpoint pen.

I'm on the closest neighbor to the sun.

The planet I'm on orbits four times around the sun for every time the Earth does.

The planet I'm on orbits the Sun every 88 earth days. If I stick around I'll get 4 birthdays every year!

This planet is the fastest...

I'm on the second smallest planet of all.

This planet would win hands down in a race around the Sun.

It's hot here. Hot enough to melt lead -- the other side of the planet is freezing.

Fastest of all plants zooms around the Sun at 100,000 MPH.

MOON
My footprints are joining those footprints of explorers who have traveled here before.

From Earth this place is the biggest place in the night sky.

Wahoo! I'm circling the Earth.

The surface here is covered by a slippery, yellowish-gray dust. In some places it's fifty feet deep.

NEPTUNE
There's supposed to be a storm here that's 6,000 miles long.

I'm hanging out on a planet named for the Roman god of the seas.

Usually the eighth planet from the Sun, that's where I am.

One of this planet's moons, Triton, has geysers that shoot out liquid nitrogen.

The great dark spot was a hurricane-like storm that circled this planet. It was as big as the Earth.

Sometimes this planet is at the very edge of the Solar System.

One of this planet's moons looks like a giant cantaloupe

The great dark spot...

PLUTO
This planet is so far away that the sun just looks like another bright star to me.

This planet and its moon are about the same size.

This planet's moon is very close and almost the same size. Oh! They're almost twins!

This is the only planet that hasn't been visited by an earth spacecraft, until we showed up that is.

This planet is usually the furthest from the Sun.

Did I just see a spacecraft? On, no, none have ever made it this far.

This planet is usually the furthest from the sun. After here there is nothing but comets for trillions of miles until you reach the next star.

This planet's moon is geosynchronous -- it orbits at the same speed the planet rotates.

This is the smallest planet.

SATURN
There are more moons here than anywhere.

One of this planet's moons, Minus, has a huge crater formed by a meteor that crashed into it long ago.

This planet is so light that it could float in a bathtub. Hmmm, but you would need to find a really big tub.

Where am I? Well it's the sixth planet from the Sun.

URANUS
Summer on this planet lasts twenty-one years; of course winter lasts twenty-one years, too.

This planet's rotation has a roll all its own.

One of the strangest moons is here, Miranda. It looks like someone blew it apart and put it back together.

I'm close to the last planet in the Solar System; from here it's only two planets away.

This planet is tilted on its side, other planets spin like tops, this one rolls.

This planet looks a lot more like its neighbor than it used to because its neighbor used to have a spot.

VENUS
 This greenhouse effect is not a healthy habit, and the sulfuric acid.

The mountains, craters, and other features...

Look out for me, I'm the second planet from the Sun.

Yikes! This place has three layers of thick clouds. They're mostly sulfuric acid; it's a deadly poison.

The mountains, craters, and other features on this planet are named after famous women.

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