{"id":28145,"date":"2026-11-28T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-28T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28145"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:08:56","slug":"red-planet-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28145","title":{"rendered":"Red Planet Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25405\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25405\" class=\"wp-image-25405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mars-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"228\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mars Surface<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Red Planet Day is today!<\/strong> Mars, the red planet, is honored today because Mariner 4 was launched on November 28, 1964. It reached Mars on July 14, 1965, sending back to NASA 22 photos of the planet. Mars is a cold desert planet, the fourth from the sun. It is red because a great deal of iron is in the soil. It has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/all-about-mars\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Planet Day is today! Mars, the red planet, is honored today because Mariner 4 was launched on November 28, 1964. It reached Mars on July 14, 1965, sending back to NASA 22 photos of the planet. Mars is a cold desert planet, the fourth from the sun. It is red because a great deal <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28145' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3033,6655,6654,561,917,6059,1205,6653],"class_list":["post-28145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-3033","tag-deimos","tag-mariner-4","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-november-28","tag-phobos","tag-red-planet-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29897,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions\/29897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}