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Uranus
By Sharon Fabian |
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1 As long as people have lived on Earth, they have been able to look up in the sky and see planets. Prehistoric people looked up and saw Mars and some of the other planets; they just didn't know that they were planets. By the time of the ancient Greeks, some logically-minded people had figured out that not everything up there was a star. Stars stayed in one place, but other heavenly bodies, such as planets, moved. In this way, they discovered the planets closest to Earth: Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and also two of the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn.