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How Are Inner And Outer Planets Similar To Each Other?
Our solar system is made up of eight planets. These eight planets are divided into two groups. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are all Terrestrial planets, And Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all Jovian planets. This begs the question. How are the inner and outer planets compare and contrast to each other?

Obviously, they are both located in the same solar system. Also, they both revolve around the same star, the sun. Both groups take the shape of spheres, and rotate on an axis. Likewise, they have a gravitational pull to them. On the other hand, The terrestrial planets tend to be smaller in size compared to their Jovian counterparts. Since the Jovian planets are further in distance from the sun, they have a colder temperature as

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