Mars is a constant point of discussion for space explorers around the world. The planet is just far away to make that dream difficult, but just close enough to spark our imagination. Now let we learn some interesting facts about Red planet.
1. Mars had water in the ancient past, and now it has frozen.
2. Mars have two moons and one of them is deimos and the other one is phobos. In the early days we thought that mars was like the moon.
3. Mars had methane in its atmosphere. It is a popular space craft destination.
4. Named after the Roman God of war, mars is the fourth planet in our solar system.
5. Mars is also known as Red planet because this name comes from the large amount of chemical called iron oxide.
6. Mars is colder than our planet, it has 20°C at the equator but at the pole they can plummet to as low as -140°C.
7. A day on mars is 24 hours and 37 minutes only a little bit longer than a day on our planet.
8. A year on mars is however is almost twice as long, lasting 687 days. This is because it takes a lot longer than earth to complete it’s orbit around the sun.
9. In 2018 they found evidence of a lake under the planet’s south polar ice cap.
10. The first space craft to land in mars is Viking Landers, which touched down the surface in 1976.
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