Mars The Red Planet

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Mars The Red Planet

• By Savoy P. J.

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History

• Named by the Roman God of war
• Mars wasnt discovered by anyone
• People thought mars had Martians
• Viking I and II visited in 1975

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Statistics

• 0.38 times Earths gravity
• 687 earth days is a year
• Mars is a inner planet
• Diameter (kilometers) 4880
• Mars is covered in craters and volcanoes
• When close to Earth in rotation, its 35 million
  miles away
• Mars has 2 moons, Deimos and Phobos
• The day is 24 haurs and37 min.

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Interesting Facts

• One of Mars is 15 miles high
• Mars has seasons
• Mars is the most similar planet to Earth
• Mars has water

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Physical Appearance

• Iron oxide or rust makes Mars reddish
• The average temperature is -55 degrees
• Mars has volcanoes, river beds, cratered terrain
  and dune fields

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Bibliography

• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/mars/discov
  ery.html http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/ma
  rs/planet_structure.htmlo
• Science Text Book
• The Mars Book
• The Book of Planets