MARS

Mars
1. Mars's atmosphere Mars has a very thin atmosphere, made from mostly carbon dixiode Also it has seasons, winter and summer. in the winter the carbon dixiode gets cold enough to freeze and then snows, in the summer the carbon dixiode unfreezes and get warm again

2.Surface Mars surface has a lot of hills, valleys, craters and canyons ,valcanoes deserts and polar ice caps. 3. Moons and satellites. Mars has 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos, also it has 3 orbiting satellites, Mars odyssey, Mars express and Mars Reconnaissance.

4. Where is it? Mars aphelion distance is 2.49x10^8 KM and perihelion distance is 2.07x10 KM

5. Mars(the name) Mars got its name from The Roman God of War, the color of mars red reminded the romans of blood and thought of the roman god of war



Facts Mars has the highest mountain in the solar system called Olympus Mons Has one of the biggest impact craters in the solar system mesauring 10,600Km long and 8,500Km wide Mars is also reffered as the red planet because of its iron oxide on its suface Mars has large amounts of dust that get pushed by wind creating bid dust storms called dust devils Mars is the only planet that life has been found on It is possible that Mars's Moons are not moons they could be two asteroids that were caught in Mars's gravity Mars has a mass of 97 quadrillion tons In the next 50 years scientists think that Mars's two moons will smash together and the pieces will still be in it's orbit and will form rings like Satern Mars it the 4th planet from the sun Canals on Mars's surface helps support the fact that water may exsists on Mars







Mars's symbol