{"id":1041,"date":"2012-08-06T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2012-08-06T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T17:27:08","slug":"children-travel-heckery-dekkery-dot-travel-game-postcards-for-children-salutes-nasa-on-the-successful-landing-of-curiosity-on-mars-the-red-planet-right-on-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Children . . . Travel? Heckery Dekkery Dot Travel Game Postcards for Children salutes NASA on the successful landing of Curiosity on Mars (the Red Planet) right on schedule!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun, and the second smallest planet in the solar system.\u00a0 Like all planets in the solar system, Mars orbits, revolves as it circles, <\/em>the Sun.\u00a0 It is Earth\u2019s outer neighbor and is visible with the naked eye.\u00a0 Mars is called the Red Planet<\/em> because it often looks very reddish and bright in the sky.\u00a0 Mars was first mentioned in records of the Babylonians<\/em> about 3,000 years ago, and Mars was named after their Roman god of war<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was believed that there could be life on Mars, but the space missions of the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s have dispelled that.\u00a0 To date, no man-like forms, no animals or plant life have been found.\u00a0 Moreover, many scientists think that if any life-form exists on Mars today, it could only consist of tiny organisms in protected areas just below the surface. However, due to the presence of water on the planet, scientists believe it is possible that life did exist on Mars at one time, and so the search for evidence of life on Mars continues!\u00a0 In fact, the newest Mars rover, Curiosity<\/strong><\/em>,<\/em> landed on the red planet right on schedule early in the morning of August 6, 2012!<\/p>\n

Curiosity\u2019s mission is to determine whether humans could survive on Mars, and to search for signs of previous life.\u00a0 If you are curious, <\/em>you can follow Curiosity\u2019s progress here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Explore NASA\u2019s Eyes on the Solar System<\/strong><\/em> 3-D interactive<\/em>.\u00a0 FAR OUT!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Everyone WINS when children learn more
\nabout the world around them . . . and beyond!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mars is the fourth planet from the sun, and the second smallest planet in the solar system.\u00a0 Like all planets in the solar system, Mars orbits, revolves as it circles, the Sun.\u00a0 It is Earth\u2019s outer neighbor and is visible … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,97,12,16,74,33,37,38,41],"tags":[49,162,54,55,57,62,63,64,67,164,165],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-2","category-curiosity","category-education","category-family-2","category-mars","category-postcards","category-travel-2","category-travel-game","category-vacation","tag-children","tag-education","tag-family","tag-fun","tag-grandparents","tag-parents","tag-postcards-2","tag-real-postcards","tag-snail-mail","tag-travel-game","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aBmz-gN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ifuwerehere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}