Life in MARS
By: Drew Olayvar
Hannah Avila
Structures and Behaviors MARS About Structures
o Coreo Mantleo Crust
4 Primary Periods
o Noachian Periodo Tharsis Bulgeo Hesperian PeriodoAmazonian Period
• Fourth planet• Roman God of War, Mars.• "Red Planet" • iron oxide
About Mars…
Iron oxide- Chemical compounds composed of Iron and Oxygen. All together, there are sixteen known Iron Oxides and Oxyhydroxides.IrBut here on Earth we call it RUST. oxides
• Terrestrial planet • Has thin atmosphere • Having surface features reminiscent both
of the craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.
• The rotational period and seasonal cycles of Mars are likewise similar to those of Earth.
About Mars…
• Olympus Mons• Valles Marineris • Borealis basin • 40% of the planet
Structures of Mars
• Iron and sulfur
• iron oxide (reddish hue.)
• Major iron component (that is where the similarities stop)
• Martian core- solid and does not move
• 2,960 km in diameter.
• Lacks a magnetic field
• Bombarded by radiation that killed an potential life forms millennia ago.
Mar’s CORE
• NO tectonic plate action/assist in removing carbon
• kind of like a rock paste. • There are no numbers for the
thickness of the mantle available at this time.
Mar’s MANTLE
• Mainly basalt • From volcanic activity • 50 and 125 km thick.• Iron oxide dust.
Mar’s CRUST
• Noachis Terra;
• oldest extant 4.5 billion years ago to 3.5 billion years ago.
• scarred by many large impact craters.
Noachian Period
Amazonian Period
• Amazonis Plantia• 2.9–3.3 billion years ago to present.• few meteorite impact craters
Hesperian Period• Hesperia Planum • (3.5 billion years ago to 2.9–3.3
billion years ago). • extensive lava plains
Tharsis Bulge• A volcanic upland• Extensive flooding by
liquid water
References• http://www.google.com.ph/search/whataboutmars
• http://www.answers.com/structuresofmars • http://www.cosmicelk.net/Mars.htm • Images:
– http://www.googleimages.com/mars – http://www.marsimage.com– http://www.solarsystem.com/mars