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A mountain is what has roots that nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, Yet it never grows.

Here all the options given are important functions of Earth's atmosphere.

The Egyptian scripts is known as Hieroglyphic which means 'sacred writing' . It consisted of 24 signs, each of which stood for a single consonant. Vowels were not written. Later the Egyptian started using symbols for ideas and the total number of signs rose to about 500. The writers, who constituted an important section of society , wrote with reed pens on the leaves of a plant called 'Papyrus' from which we get the word 'paper'.

A faint ring encircles Jupiter. Neptune and Uranus are also reported to show some sort of ring.

Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to the Earth.

The Theme of National Press Day 2017 is "Challenges before media".