Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! It is going to be about MARS!!!

Let's start off with the name. Mars got its name from the Roman God Mars. The Roman god Mars is the god of war. The romans named the planet Mars because of its reddish glow in the sky. I guess they thought then that Mars was the perfect name.

Mars is called the red planet because of it reddish color and glow and because of the wide spread of iron oxide which is rust color. It makes it have reddish glow when it is dark.

Now we are going to talk about Mar's moons Phobos and Deimos.

Phobos

Phobos is a small irregularly shaped object. Also it orbits about 9,400 Km from Mar's center, or about 6,000 Km from the Martian surface. It is one of the least reflective bodies in our solar system. Phobos also has a large impact crater called Stickney. Phobos orbits so close to Mars that it moves around Mars faster than Mars rotates.

 

Deimos

Deimos is 4.5 billion years old. Deimos is smaller then Phobos being only 5 by 12 by 11 Km in size. Deimos orbits around Mars about every 30 hours. Its craters are only 2.5 Km in diameter. From the center of Mars Deimos orbits 23,460 Km from Mars. It takes about 30.3 hours to orbit Mars.

  

Mars has a lot of impact craters and the land is dust. It has tall volcanoes the ground is sort of reddish color because of all the iron in the ground. It also has valleys, desserts, and  icecaps.  Mars also has large canyons. Borealis Basin covers 40% of the planet and may be a giant impact feature.

                                          

Some evidence that mars has or had water is because of the dry ocean/lake beds. Some canals in the land that look liked they once had water flowing through it.    

Mars is similar to earth because it's day is 24 hours and 30 minutes and that is close to earth's day. also there axis tilts are similar too Mar's is 25.19 and earth's is 23.5. Since the axis tilts are not that different mars has some of the same seasons like we have except they would be longer.

 

My 5 Facts 

1) Mars is 53% smaller than earth.

2) Spirit was one of the rovers that was sent to Mars.

3) Mars has an liquid iron core.

4) It is the fourth planet in our solar system.

5)  It would take us about 150 days to get to mars.

Curiosity

Curiosity is a rover that was sent to mars and is finding information about the red planet. it confirmed that some of the meteorites on earth actually came from mars. The new measurement of this precision of two forms of argon - argon 36 and argon 38. These lighter and heavier forms of or isotopes argon exist through out the solar system.

 

Thank's for watching!!!!!

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