Our Solar System

ABC of the planets

“My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos” goes one of the mnemonics for remembering the planets. But how can we explain the solar system in a simple way? These cheat sheets are here to help.

Did you know that a day on Venus lasts longer than a year? Or that a year on Mercury is 88 Earth days long? You will find little scientific factual nuggets like these on the back of the special sheet. It is almost one metre wide, with ten stamps featuring the eight planets, the Sun and the Moon as the main representatives of our solar system. And what was that again about gravity and the Milky Way? The cheat sheets on this double-sided spread shed light on the ABCs of the planets.