In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes the consumer price index which is used to find inflation rates. The bureau states that the consumer price index âis a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.â.
The earth ulis called a blue planet because of the presence of abundance of water in it. About 70 percent of the earth's crust is covered with water. And this imparts it with a blue colour as seen from the space.
One NASA plan envisions bombarding Phobos with small, spiky spherical rovers called hedgehogs. The planet Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and named after the Roman God of War and is also called the Red Planet. See what makes Mars tick with this Space.com infographic looking inside the Red Planet.