When antelope are running flat out, they resemble very rapidly departing dots; some say they can hit 60 mph.

The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.

Moonbathing gives my body a nice even bronze coloring, says Cyndi Grenwal, a 17-year-old high school senior. "And I don't have to worry about ultraviolet rays giving me sunburn or skin cancer.

Zeona has a thin atmosphere of sulfur dioxide and trioxide, created by volcanic outgassing. There are traces of water vapor in the atmosphere, but over the last five centuries of observation particle counts have decreased 4%.