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Ingenuity is a robotic helicopter that operates on Mars as part of NASA's Perseverance rover mission.

It is a small, autonomous helicopter that uses rotors to lift off the Martian surface and explore the planet from the air.

Ingenuity made history by becoming the first aircraft to fly on another planet in April 2021.

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• CNSA (China National Space Administration) is a government agency of the People's Republic of China.
• It was established in 1993.
• It is responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation.

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Mercury is also smallest planet to the sun.

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NASA launched the Europa Clipper Mission to explore Jupiter's moon.

In October 2024, NASA launched this spacecraft to learn whether conditions on Jupiter’s moon could sustain life in what scientists believe could be a deep ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.

Note: NASA is the space agency of the USA.

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• The asteroid belt is a region of space where many small rocky bodies, called asteroids, orbit the Sun.
• It's also known as planetoids or minor planets.
• It is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, spanning from about 2.2 to 3.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.

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3 % of Earth's water is fresh.

2.5% of the earth's freshwater is unavailable:

locked up in glaciers,

polar ice caps,

atmosphere,

and soil;

lies too far under the earth's surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.

0.5% of the earth's water is available in freshwater.

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• Earth is the biggest of all the terrestrial planets.
• It has temperature, weather, atmosphere and many other factors.
• Its surface 30% is covered with land and 70% with water.
• It has only one moon called Luna.

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The second smallest planet is Mars,

It is about half the size of the Earth with a 2,106-mile radius. 

Mars is sometimes called the Red Planet.

It's red because of rusty iron in the ground.

Number of moons on Mars: 2

Additional information:

The planets in order of size, listed from biggest to smallest:

1. Jupiter: 43,441-mile radius.
2. Saturn: 36,184-mile radius.
3. Uranus: 15,759-mile radius.
4. Neptune: 15,299-mile radius.
5. Earth: 3,959-mile radius.
6. Venus: 3,760-mile radius.
7. Mars: 2,106-mile radius.
8. Mercury: 1,516-mile radius

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• ESA (European Space Agency) is an intergovernmental organization.
• It dedicated to the exploration of space, with 22 member states from Europe.
• It was established in 1975.

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The world’s largest plant- the ribbon weed (Posidonia australis) has been discovered off the West Coast of Australia in June 2022.