Mars: The Red PlanetBy: Kat Saddler

Symbol & Name

• Named by Romans

• Ares:god of war

• Because of red color (blood)

Discovery

• Discovered by Ancients

• Date Unknown

Planet Measurements

• Mass: 6.4169 x 10^23 kg

• Volume: 1.63116 x 10^11 km^3

• Density: 3.934 g/cm^3

• Sink in Water: density > than water’s (water’s density=1 g/cm^3

• Gravity: 3.71 m/s^s

Atmosphere

Consists of…

• Carbon Dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Argon

Thin atmosphere (not a lot of atmosphere)

Distances

• Order from the sun: 4

• Distance from the sun: 227388763.45km

• Distance from Earth: 77790892.76km

Orbit and Rotation

• One year (orbit sun): 1.9 earth years

• One day (rotate on axis once): 1.026 earth days; 24.623 hours

Temperature

• Average: -55 degrees Celsius; -67 degrees Celsius

• Average on Earth: -88 low; 58 max (degrees Celsius)

• Average in Florida: 26 degrees Celsius

Appearance

• Rocky Planet (inner planet)

• Dry like a desert

Altered by

• volcanoes

• impacts

• crustal movement

• atmosphere effect

Composition

• No one knows what Mars is made of

• Scientists has a mission

• InSight: mission to figure out what is in the interior of mars

Looks

• Red (red planet)

• Bumpy

• Rocky

• Has craters

Water

• Martian atmosphere is too thin

• (To have liquid water for a long time)

• Water-ice is found under the surface

• (Polar regions)

Weather

• Seasons = last twice as long as Earth’s

• Spring(north)+Fall(south)=longest

• Fall(north)+Spring(south)=shortest

• High: 70 degrees Fahrenheit

• Low: -225 degrees Fahrenheit

Moons

• 2 moons

• Found by Asaph Hall

• Named by the sons of Ares (Ares=mars)

• Phobos: 1887(6 days after), crater (10 km wide) called Stickney,

mean fear in Greek

• Deimos: 1887, means flight, large amount of craters

What would happen if a human traveled to your planet?

• It is a really thin atmosphere

• There is no protection from the sun’s rays

• People can’t breathe because there is no oxygen

Fun Facts

• More than 40 spacecrafts

• 1st success: 1965=Mariner 4

• Insight: INterior Exploration Using Seismis Investigations,

Geodesy and Heat Transport

• Mission: to find out what is in Martian interior and Earth’s

evolutionary formation

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