Facts About Mars, Hot Interesting
Trivia & Fun Girls

And now some fun facts about the planet Mars:

1. Mars may be only half the size of Earth, but it does have tremendous features. For example, Mars has the largest volcano in the largest entirety of the solar system.  It’s called Olympus Mon and it rises to about twice the size of Mount Everest.
2. Why is Mars a red planet? Well that’s because of the significant amount of iron oxide in the soil on Mars. In Leman’s terms, iron oxide is rust, so Mars is essentially covered in rust.
3. Carrying out missions to Mars turned out to be a lot more complicated that we had thought. In fact, only about 1/3 of the missions we carry out to Mars are successful.
4. Life on Mars? Some people think so. In the 1970’s The Viking orbiter took pictured of the surface of Mars. These pictures showed what seemed to be large faces and pyramids carved into the surface of Mars. This area is called Fadonia.
5. Mars has some of the craziest weather of all the planets in the solar system.  It has storms ranging from dust storms, to wind storms, to tornados.
6. In facts, in 2001, it had such a large dust storm that it covered the whole planet for a few Earth days. Now this baffles scientists because Mars is such a small planet and has such little atmosphere that it shouldn’t be having storms of this magnitude. However, they have noticed that the closer Mars is to the sun, the more storms that it has.
7. The tilt of the Earth’s axis is 23.5 degrees, and the tilt of Mar’s axis is 25.2 degrees. Now because of the similarities in tilts, both Mars and Earth have seasons.
8. Mars makes a complete rotation around the Earth every 687 days. So a Martian year is about twice as long as an Earth year. That means if you were seventy on Earth, your Martian counterpart would be thirty five.
9. Mars seems to be a pretty dead planet now, however, scientist believe that Mars used to be much like Earth and that it even had running water and lakes.