our power point on mars !
Quick facts on mars
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MarsTopicDataDiameter6794.4 kmDensity3.94
g/cm3Mass6.421 x 1023 kgVolume1.643 x 1011
km3Temperature Range-140° C to 20°
CAtmosphereMostly Carbon Dioxide WindsUp
to 100 km/hrMoons2Average Distance from
Sun227,940,000 kmOrbital Period1 Years, 320
Days, 18.2 HoursRotation1 Days, 0.67
HoursTilt25.19°RingsNoCompositionIron
Oxides and SilicatesMagnetic FieldSlight
Stuff on mars !!
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Mars has the largest canyon in the solar system. It would reach
from Los Angeles to Chicago if it was on Earth!
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, mostly carbon dioxide, but
dust storms can cover the whole planet for months at a time.
About every two years the Earth and Mars come close together.
The planet has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.
It would take about 6 months for a spacecraft to get to Mars but
the crew would have to wait a year and a half before returning.
While there are no current plans for a manned mission to Mars
you can see some designs at this NASA website, Mars Mission.
The nine planets !!
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This is a little rhyme to remember your planets
My very excellent mother just severed us nice
pizza
Mercy venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus
neptune pluto
Stuff we found interesting about
mars !
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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the
seventh largest:
orbit: 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun
diameter: 6,794 km
mass: 6.4219e23 kg
a picture of the solar system !
Mars is on the inner solar system
Mars !!
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Mars is a small, rock planet which is cold and
lifeless. ~The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner
4 in 1965. Several others followed including the two
Viking landers in 1976. After a long break, Mars
Pathfinder landed successfully on Mars on July 4,
1997. ~Mars has permanent ice caps at both poles
made up mostly of solid carbon dioxide. We know this
as "dry ice." ~Very strong winds and vast dust storms
sometimes blow through the entire planet for
months! ~Mars has two tiny moons which orbit very
close to the surface. Their names are Phobos and
Some little facts on mars !!!
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Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and is the
seventh largest of the nine planets
Mars is the god of War. In Greek mythology, he
is known as Ares . The planet probably got this
name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes
referred to as the "Red Planet." The name of the
month March derives from Mars. Mars is also a
world famous chocolate bar
This is some more stuff on mars
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Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War. The
planet probably got this name due to its red
colour; Mars is sometimes referred to as the Red
Planet. (An interesting side note: the Roman god
Mars was a god of agriculture before becoming
associated with the Greek Ares; those in favor
of colonizing and terra forming Mars may prefer
this symbolism.) The name of the month March
derives from Mars.
Pictures of mars
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This is mars!!!!
The first spacecraft to visit mars
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The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4
in 1965. Several others followed including Mars
2, the first spacecraft to land on Mars and the
two Viking landers in 1976. Ending a long 20
year hiatus, Mars Pathfinder landed successfully
on Mars on July 4 1997.
The temperature on mars
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orbit is significantly elliptical. One result of
this is a temperature variation of about 30 C at
the subsolar point between aphelion and
perihelion. This has a major influence on Mars'
climate. While the average temperature on Mars is
about 218 °K (-55 °C, -67 °F), Martian surface
temperatures range widely from as little as 140 °K
(-133 °C, -207 °F) at the winter pole to almost
300 °K (27 °C, 80 °F) on the dayside during
summer.
Where mars is on the solar system!!
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Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and in a way it,
besides the earth, is probably the planet we pay the most
attention to. Scientists scramble to unlock the mystery of
whether there is life on mars and the public in general has
always seemed to have had an interest in the Red Planet. It
was named after the Roman God of War whose Greek
counterpart is Ares. The most conspicous reason for this is
probably that when Mars could be viewed, its deep red
color gave the image of blood. Whatever secrets lie in the
Red Planet will probably be uncovered soon, for our
technology grows fast and so does our curiousity.
Surface and atmosphere
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Surface conditions on Mars are more similar to earth than any
other planet in the solar system. However, earth's plants and
animals would not survive on Mars. This is because surface
temperature on Mars is much lower than that of the earth, hardly
ever rising above the freezing point of water. There is evidence
that Mars used to have large amounts of water on it millions of
years ago, but almost none exists today. But, there is probably
frozen water in Mars' polar ice caps or beneath its surface. Mars'
atmosphere contains only a slight amount of oxygen, but many
scientists believe that some form of life may exist on Mars even
though none has been found yet.
Even more on the surface and
atmosphere
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There are several outstanding features noticeable on
Mars' surface- polar caps, bright areas and dark areas.
Numerous craters are present, caused by meteors
crashing into the surface. Other features like canyons,
gorges and what appear to be dry riverbeds have be
photographed by unmanned space probes. This
supports the possibility of there once having been large
quantities of water flowing on the planet's surface. Mars
also has volcanoes, particularly in one region near its
equator. The highest volcano on Mars is twice as high
as Mount Everest. Near this volcano is a huge canyon
that may be a fault line.
The moons around mars
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Mars has two small moons that travel around it.
The closest one, Phobos, is also the largest of the
two. It has a diameter of about fourteen miles at
the equator and about eleven miles from pole to
pole. It makes its revolution around Mars in about
seven and a half hours. The smaller satellite,
Deimos, has a diameter of about six miles and
makes its journey around Mars in thirty hours.
Asaph Hall, an American astronomer, discovered
both the satellites in 1877.
Flights to mars
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In 1965, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flew
about 6,118 miles from Mars. Four years later, Mariner 6
and Mariner 7 flew even closer to it. Mariner 9 orbited
Mars in 1971 and 1972 where it photographed both
satellites, a dust storm on the planet and various surface
details. Mars 3 , a So viet probe, also orbited the planet
in 1971 and released a capsule that made a soft landing
on the planet's surface. However, the capsule
transmitted information for only twenty seconds when
it unexpectedly fell silent.
Picture of mars
Another picture of mars
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