The Red Planet : Mars

In the Solar System, Mars is that the fourth planet from the Sun. Mars was named within the honor of the Roman's God of War, Mars. 

Mars' orbit is considerably elliptical. Mars incorporates a reddish look and it's typically described because the "Red Planet".  The iron oxide prevalent on its surface and provides it the reddish look. Its 2 small and irregularly formed moons, Phobos and Deimos. 

Mars will simply be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Mars has approximately 0.5 the diameter of Earth. it's less dense than Earth. Mars is far smaller than Earth; however its surface space is concerning identical because the land surface space of Earth.
Mar’s surface may be a dry, barren wasteland marked by previous volcanoes and impact craters. Most of the craters are still intact as a result of there isn’t any environmental forces to erode them. the world lacks the wind, rain, and plate tectonics which cause erosion here on Earth. 


The atmosphere of Mars is sort of completely different from that of Earth. it's composed primarily of carbon dioxide with little amounts of alternative gases. The six most typical parts of the atmosphere are: Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen ,    Argon,  Oxygen, Water, Neon. The quantities of those parts are:
(CO2)- 95.32%, (N2)- 2.7%, (Ar)- 1.6%, (O2)- 0.13%, (H2O)- 0.03% , Ne- 0.00025 % .
The average recorded temperature on Mars is -63° C (-81° F) with a most temperature of 20° C (68° F) and a minimum of -140° C (-220° F).
The first spacecraft to go to Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965. On 1997 July 4, Mars Pathfinder landed successfully on Mars. In 2004 the Mars Expedition Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity" landed on Mars sending back geologic information and plenty of footage. In 2005, radar information revealed the presence of enormous quantities of water ice at the poles and at mid-latitudes. The Mars rover Spirit sampled chemical compounds containing water molecules in March 2007. On July 31, 2008, The Phoenix lander directly sampled water ice in shallow Martian soil.

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