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 * __SPACE__

Things in space:** stars,planets,black hole,meteorites,satellites,milkyway

You can not go near the sun. Pluto is not a planet. The sun is a star. The earth has an inner core, outer core,ozone layer, mantle and crust. Planets are named after Roman Gods.
 * Facts:**

Earth, Mars,Mercury,Saturn,Uranus,Venus,Jupiter,Neptune
 * Planets**:



MONKEY IN SPACE


 * __MARS__**



Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. The planet is one of Earth's "next-door neighbours" in space and is about 4.6 billion years old. It is about half the size of Earth and has two small moons, Phobus and Deimos.

Mars is a cold, dry rocky planet with a thin atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure on the Martian surface is less than 1 percent the atmospheric pressure on Earth. The Martian surface has many spectacular features, including a canyon system that is much deeper and much longer than the Grand Canyon in the United States. Mars also has mountains that are much higher than Mount Everest, Earth's highest peak.

Mars is known as the red planet because of its reddish-brown appearance, caused by rusty dust on the Martian surface. It is named for the ancient Roman god of war. The Romans and Greeks associated the planet with war because its colour resembles blood. Scientists have found strong evidence that water once flowed on the surface of Mars. The evidence includes channels, valleys, and gullies on the planet's surface. If this evidence is correct, water may still lie in cracks and pores in subsurface rock. A space probe has also discovered vast amounts of ice beneath the surface, most of it near the South Pole.

Like the other planets in the solar system, Mars travels around the sun in an elliptical (oval) orbit. But the orbit of Mars is slightly more "stretched out" than the orbits of Earth and most of the other planets. Mars travels around the sun once every 687 Earth days; this is the length of the Martian year. The Martian solar day is 24 hours 39 minutes 35 seconds long. This is the length of time that Mars takes to turn around once with respect to the sun. Mars, like Earth, has 4 seasons.