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The red, fiery appearance of Mars is caused by iron oxide (rust) on its surface. This feature also earned it the nickname "The Red Planet". The Red Planet has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are named after sons of Ales(Mars) in Greek mythology. Since Phobos orbits around Mars faster than the planet itself rotates, Phobos rises in the west and sets in the east! Recently, Japanese RED STAR, Mr.Akahoshi who is professional baseball player launched a boys' baseball team. From his club, good baseball players may be born who run faster than his owner, just like Speedy Phobos.(Reference:Wikipedia)

The Moon has a big influence on our Earth as if it had magical powers. For example, the Moon makes the Earth's spin slow down. Atomic clocks show that the day lengthens by about 15/1000000 seconds every year. Because of the western folk belief in the Moon as a cause of periodic insanity, the word "Lunatic" derived from Luna (Moon) means crazy. The moon is beautiful for us especially in mid-autumn, but it's magical for Saiya-jin who draw their power from the moon and change into the big monkey during the full moon.(Reference:Wikipedia)

I heard an interesting story yesterday from my English teacher about ferociousness of a kangaroo. 　When a big white man was try to feed a wallaby in a zoo, the small-sized kangaroo kicked his belly and flew him away a few meters. Kangaroos are able to stand on their tail while using both hind legs to kick. 　Even with wallabies, their kicks are so dangerous that a regular-sized kangaroo may kill people with kicks in the belly. You should be careful with kangaroo.

　These clocks represent axial inclinations of 9 planets. For example, on the third clock from the left, the hour hand represent Earth's axial inclination of 23 degrees. When the hour hand moves 23 degree from noon, it is on the 12: 46.
Mercury's axial inclination is 0 degrees. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto have axial inclinations of 177.3, 25.19, 3.12, 26.73, 97.86, 29.58, and 119.61 degrees, respectively.

There are two different Okabe city in Japan. One is in Shizuoka and the other is in Saitama. The traffic sign above is in Shizuoka.

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