Planet Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest.
It’s the only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots.

Mars & Venus are close to Earth.
Mars is one of the easiest planets to spot in the night sky — it looks like a bright red point of light.

Mars is the only planet where rovers were sent to roam the alien landscape.
NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.

Mars was named by the Romans for their god of war because its reddish color was reminiscent of blood.

It is frequently called the "Red Planet" because iron minerals (rust), causing the surface to look red.

Radius = 3,390 kilometers (About half the size of Earth).

It takes sunlight 13 minutes to travel from the Sun to Mars.

As Mars orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours (Earth takes 23.9 hours).
Martian days are called sols – short for "solar day."
A year on Mars lasts 669.6 sols, which is the same as 687 Earth days.

Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos (names from the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek god of war, Ares).

Mars dense core is made of iron, nickel, and sulfur. Science feels it is surrounded by a rocky mantle and above that, a crust made of iron, magnesium, aluminum, calcium, and potassium.

Mars is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. It's three times taller than Earth's Mt. Everest

Some features suggest that Mars experienced huge floods about 3.5 billion years ago.

Temperature : High = 20 degrees Celsius and Low = -153 degrees Celsius.

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