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Interesting Facts about the Inner Planets
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:36 PM

The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Close to the Sun and separated from the much larger Outer Planets by an asteroid belt. Sometimes called terrestrial planets and are composed of rock. Due to their hard surfaces, these planets have canyons, craters, mountains, and volcanoes. Few or no moons. Developed from small grains of dust that collided... Read More...

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Interesting Facts about Mars
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:55 PM

called the Red Planet due to its red soil made up of iron oxide, more commonly known as rust dust storms can cover the whole planet and last for weeks has ice just under the surface 2 moons, one of which orbits closer to its planet than any other moon in our solar system has biggest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons half the size of Earth, one-third... Read More...

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