(Water)
(Even if there's no Moon or atmosphere)
(So we can take our time)

In the beginning
The heavens and the earth
On day four of God's creation
Was the solar system's birth
Far, far, far to the naked eye
But we can make it seem close
If we go beyond the sky

The Sun, a star
It is the only one that we have got
Not far, ninety-three million miles
It is large and wide
Million times Earth's size
It is hot, fifteen million Celsius
Twenty-seven million Fahrenheit

Super bright, do not stare at it
Or you will go blind
Average size and star type: G2V
Means cyan off-white
Its light is just right for Earth's life
When it is on the other side
You can guarantee it is night

But it can fight
In our atmosphere aurorae ignite
And coronal mass ejections
Make the Sun not so polite
Block the Sun: Your hands
The clouds, the Moon they might
It all happened because God said
Let there be light

Even if there is no water
Even if there is no Moon or atmosphere
So we can take our time
To search around, up and down
Until we have every orbit cleared

(Here we go)
Mercury is the smallest
And the closest of them all
Marked with craters, scrapes, and wrinkles
It is a rocky iron ball
Orbit is tilted and eccentric
Eighty-eight days it repeats
And each and every day
Its size continues to retreat

No water, Moon, or atmosphere
It is too close to the Sun rays
Even if it had them
They would just boil, pull, or blast away
Its sunny face is hot
The other is definitely not
Though between the two extremities
There lies a sweet spot
Seven times greater Sun glow
The way its sodium tail blows
And solar wind flow
Makes magnetic tornadoes

(Second)
Venus might look pretty
But its surface is deceiving
Its thick and toxic atmosphere
High pressure makes it seething
Hotter than Mercury
From the greenhouse gases heating
Sulfuric acid lightning
Is going to make you start retreating

Bright from Earth
Known as morning and evening star
Compared to its backwards rotation
Orbit is shorter, so bizarre
Sharing size, make-up, and mass
It is known as Earth's evil twin
And volcanoes shape the surface
Bringing lava from within

Earth is planet number three
Home to all humanity
Place of most our history
Rivers, continents, and seas
Ranging mountains at their peaks
Ocean trenches in the deep
Tectonic plates convections heave
Powered by Earth's internal heat

Earth's rotation Coriolis
Makes the air and oceans flow
Got the most optimal spot
In the habitable zone
Means the climate it has got
Is just right for life to grow
Only satellite, the Moon
Controls the tides, one side is shown

Orange Mars, not red
Planet number four
Will Elon have the newest
Of the forty probes explored?
Rovers study from volcanoes
Down to every canyon floor
Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris
Highest, deepest scores

Dust storms, thin air
Making little breezes
Permafrost, vapor
Polar water freezes
Carbon dioxide with clouds
Phobos, Deimos fly around
But where are all the Martians?
No one to be found

(Asteroids)
Asteroids, little clumps
Of metals, ices, rock
Abundant in the system
Over millions in stock
Literally everywhere
They like to move in crowds
From Jupiter's oppression
Any growing is not allowed

The asteroid belt
Loaded to the brim
But the chances of you hitting one
Is really, really slim
Carbonaceous, metallic, siliceous
Types: C, X, and S
The big to small ones ratio
Ascending is staggeringly less

Ceres is a dwarf planet
With salty ice formation
Vesta's layered self has Rheasilvia
Highest elevation
Pallas' orbit is peculiar
A stand-out inclination
And Hygiea is oddly spherical
And carbon presentation

Interamnia, Davida, Juno, Psyche, Patientia
Thisbe, Doris, and Euphrosyne
Electra's Moon trifecta
Themis, Sylvia, Romulus, Remus
Hebe, and Bamberga
Iris, Cybele, Eunomia, Camilla, and Fortuna
Lutetia, Donaldjohanson, Flora
Gaspra, Dinkinesh, Selam

Annefrank, Hungaria, Litva
Massalia, Nysa, Polana
Phocaea, Maria, Tyche, Io
Agnia, Kleopatra
Alexhelios, Cleoselene, Koronis
Ida, Dactyl, Antiope
Kalliope, Linus, Herculina
Huberta, Ulla, Hilda

Schubart, Aegis, Gorgoneion
Minerva, Justitia, Peneius
Daphne, Griseldis, Hermione
Hertha, and the list just grows
And keeps on going further
Trojans are objects that follow
On a bigger body's tracks
And every planet has got them
Mercury is the only one that lacks

Fifth and fattest Jupiter
Baddest, with monstrous mass
Got the others twice surpassed
Can not be outclassed
Oblate is its shape
From the fastest rotation rate
It inflates its clouds
And atmosphere make gassy bands
All swirly and straight

Crushing gravity
Near the belt, its locality
Grabs trojans at Lagrangian points
And messes with both belts with brutality
Rings hard to mark
Shrinking red spot
Cyclones twist with spirality
Magnetic field is the strongest
And that is just reality

Io's crust is rich in sulfur
And volcanoes, lava lakes
And Europa's ocean is under
All the ice covered in scrapes
And there is Ganymede's magnetic field
Above all it is most large
And Callisto bears the remnants
Of some billion crater scars

Adrastea, Amalthea, Metis
Thebe, and Themisto
Leda, Ersa, Carpo, Mneme
Eupheme, Valetudo
And Lysithea, Himalia
Elara, Pandia, Harpalyke
Orthosie, Praxidike, Dia
Iocaste, Euanthe, Thelxinoe
Chaldene and Ananke

Sixth is Saturn
Second largest, a mention is a must
Its wide and flashy set of rings
Of water ice and rocks and dust
Particles as big as mountains
Small as sand
The stormy polar hexagon
Something we do not understand

Less dense than water
But do not expect it to sail
Its speedy twirl, lack of bulk
Means its flattening prevails
Every thirty years
Some Great White Spot comes surfing
Around the block
They just keep on finding moons
Like it is never going to stop

Mimas is a cratered egg
Enceladus is cryovolcanic
Tethys' valley, Rhea's oxygen
Dione's chasmata span it
Titan's thick and orange atmosphere
Methane lakes at the poles
And Iapetus is two-sided
Its ridge nearly rounds the whole

Hyperion and Phoebe
Are some massive cold potatoes
And the countless clumps and moonlets
But we will probably never name most
Aegaeon, Pallene, Pandora
Pan, and Daphnis, Methone
Helene, Albiorix, Skoll
Atlas, Polydeuces, Mundilfari
Thrymr, Janus, Epimetheus

Cold-hearted, seventh
Uranus, either one
Its sideways axis makes
Some crazy seasons orbiting the Sun
This reverse-rotating ice giant
Pushes unaided sight
Its dark and spindly rings
Askew, are pretty slight

The methane turquoise atmosphere
Is more uniform, but got some tricks
Coldest record
Second is the average
As perspective here conflicts
Magnetosphere's lopsidedness
Whurls a waving corkscrew tail
Further missions here
Are yet to be entailed

The eighth one after Uranus
Is windy, wild Neptune
The furthest from the Sun
It is dark and really hard to get to
Not as blue as you remember
But it also is not white
And below the methane skies
It might rain diamonds down inside

Voyager Two is the only probe
That had the planet's destination
Where it picked up Neptune's winds
Of supersonic circulation
Colder average than on Uranus
A misinterpretation
And some sixteen moons
And maybe more, surrounding its location

Ninth was Pluto, but it is controversial
Since the IAU's rejection
From the planetary circle
They said it did not match up
To their guidelines
With its two thousand and six
Relegation to the sidelines

Wonky little snowball
Nitrogen and tholins
With shifting atmospheric condensation
When it is frozen
Geology is constantly
Transforming modestly
Through all the mockery
Planet or not, it is an oddity

Even if there is no water (no water)
Even if there is no Moon or atmosphere (no atmosphere)
So we can take our time (take our time)
To search around, up and down
Until we have every orbit cleared

Even if there is no water
Even if there is no Moon or atmosphere
So we can take our time
To search around, up and down
Until we have every orbit cleared
(Take our time, yeah)