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15 cool things about planets  1. Later this summer NASA will send perseverance a rover that's like a science lab on wheels to Mars 2. A planet is a large body of rock, gas, and other material that travels around a star (like the sun). 3. Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons has a slaty, ice_covered ocean that's almost 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans.    4. Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named for a Greek or Roman god or goddess. 5. Neptune might have oceans of liquid diamond. 6. Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet all 7 other planets can fit in inside of it.  7. Uranus has only 2 seasons summer and winter each lasts 42 earth years. 8. The clouds on venus rain sulfuric acid. 9. Saturn has a solid core about the size of the Earth.  10. The earth moves around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour that's more than 100 times the speed of the fastest jet. 11. Because its closest to the sun mercury has the shortest year of our solar system's p...

8 awesome space facts 1. One of Jupiter's 50 moons, Ganymede, is orbiting the gas giant. The largest moon in the entire solar system, Ganymede is bigger than the planet mercury. 2. Astronauts on the international space station captured the June 12, 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak, a volcano in the northern part of Russia's Kuril Island chain.     3.  Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless 2 performed an untethered spacewalk, going farther than any astronaut while unattached to a shuttle  4. the star called V838 monocerotis lives in the milky way galaxy 20,000 light-years away. When it lit up in 2002, its "light echo" revealed dust patterns, show here, in its surrounding cloud structures. 5. Looking more like bizarre rock formation than columns of cold gas in space, these iconic towers are referred to as the Pillars of Creation because the gas is creating new stars. Looking more like vertical rock formations in a cave than columns o...

13 sweet fact about chocolate Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, paste, or in a block, which may also be used as a flavoring ingredient in other foods. 1. Legend says that Aztec ruler Moctezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate every day. Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of the Aztec Empire, reigning from 1502 to 1520. 2. Manie is home to a 1700 pound chocolate moose named Lenny. A 1,700-pound behemoth, Lenny is a milk-chocolate moose, the star of an edible animal habitat hidden inside of Len Libby Candies, a chocolatier in Scarborough, Maine. Lenny's pals are some dark chocolate black bears: 380-pound Mama Libby and her cubs, Cocoa and Chip, who are 80 pounds each. 3. A 100-year-old chocolate bar sold for $700. The 10-centimeter (four-inch) chocolate bar was part of a 3,500-pound load of cocoa and chocolate taken by British explorer Captain Robert Scott on his 1901-1904 expedition to the f...

         15 cool things about national monuments Monuments are built all over the world to honor history. Many are parts of national parks or sites and are cared for by governments. Others are protected by an organization called the united nations. Checks out some of the world's most amazing monuments. 1. The National Mall, a national park in Washington, D.C, with several national monuments has 41 KM of sidewalks. National Mall is home to iconic monuments including the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. 2. The walls of Irelands Blarney castle are 18 feet thick in some parts. The castle originally dates from before 1200 and was destroyed and rebuilt in 1446 by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy. 3. Construction of Spain's Sagrada Familia a church started in 1882 probably won't be done until at least 2026. The Basílica de la Sagrada Família, also known as the Sagrada Família, is a large unfinished Roman Catholic minor basilica in Barcelona, Catalo...