Tuesday 19 October 2010

Mars Facts


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holly said...

Planet Mars Info

The planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war and found four planets away from the sun.
It is often nicknamed " The red planet" because at night, it is a reddish colour. Mars has two moons,called Deimos and Phobos but they are both quite small and are not a perfect sphere shape, like the moon. Nobody or nothing can live on mars because there is no atmosphere. Some people think that things lived on planet mars, like aliens. Scientists sent robots up to Mars, with cameras on them to investigate the planet to see if there is any life. So far, no life has been found. The average temperature for Mars is -63°C which is extremly cold! Mars has mountain/volcano on top of it, called "Olympus Mons" which is the largest mountain in the whole solar system,standing at 24,000 metres high!
If you weighed 7 pounds on Earth you would weigh 27 pounds on Mars.
In total, it would take about 21 months to get to planet Mars and back again.


Mars Facts

1.In one year on mars, there are 687 days where as Earth only has 365.

2.Sometimes Mars can have dust storms and this can cover most of the planet for months.

3.Mars was believed to once have flowing water, but water has not been found on the planet more recently.

4.Mars has seasons just like ours.

5.NASA is trying to organise a mission for men to land on Mars.

6.Mars is more similar to Earth than any other planet.

7.We could'nt breathe if we lived on Mars, because there is hardly any oxygen, mainly carbon-dioxide.


By Holly Mcculloch!

2 November 2010 at 12:46

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