SOLAR SAHARA 



Compared with our world, the rest of our solar system {the sun and its other 

 major planets) is almost waterless. Our world oceans, a mere film of water, 

 comparatively, covering our planet, may be unique among the billions of solar 

 systems in the known universe. 



MERCURY: water/ess 



VENUS: may hove water, hut no oceans 



OUR EARTH: has a filn) of water one three- 

 thousandth of its diameter 



OUR MOON: other planets also have satellites 

 MARS: has water, canalized and scarce, but no oceans 



JUPITER: no water 



SATURN: woter/ess 



URANUS: woter/ess 



NEPTUNE: woter/ess 



PLUTO: waterless 



SEGMENT OF OUR SUN: a blazing 

 furnace a million times the mass of our world 



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