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= __**Mars** __ =

**Describe how Mars got its name;** //Mars was named after the Roman god of war.//

**Who Discovered Mars;** //The Babylonians//

**When;** //N/A//

**How;** //They made careful observations and developed a sophisticated system for predicting astronomical events, it was visible by the naked eye.//

**Where;** //N/A//

__Distances:__
**Order from the sun;** //Fourth planet from the sun//

**Distance from the Sun;** //At farthest 154.8 __million__ miles// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//at closest 128.6 __million__ miles//

<span style="color: #5ce308; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Distance from the Earth;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//On average 225 million km//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__Plant measurements:__
<span style="color: #2aea1a; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Mass;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//6.4219 * 10^23 kg//

<span style="color: #11f3a1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Volume;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//163,115,609,799 km2//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**__Orbit and Rotation:__**
<span style="color: #119ff3; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Number of days to orbit sun;**// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//687 Earth days//

<span style="color: #0f0bf4; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Perihelion;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//128.6 million miles//

<span style="color: #600acc; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Equatorial Circumference;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//13,203 miles//

<span style="color: #ab15e5; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Mean Density;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//3.934 g/cm3//

<span style="color: #f523f5; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Gravity;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//2,342.376 g//

<span style="color: #f830cc; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Aphelion;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//154,865,850 miles//

<span style="color: #f6419b; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Length of One Day;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//24.623 hours//

<span style="color: #f79cc9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Planet Appearance;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Mars is a rocky, cold, and sterile beneath its hazy pink sky. Its red because the rust of the iron that it's made out of. It has many craters and it is half the size of Earth.//

<span style="color: #f53d3d; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Rings;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//N/A//

<span style="color: #f18313; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Satellites;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Phobos-27km long, Deimos-15 km long, both are cratered, orbit mars in a low orbit, and probably fragments of larger objects

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**Composition:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Core composition;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Mars has a core that is mainly iron, and sulfur wrapped in a mantle that is silicates//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Surface composition;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Made of basalt and just enough iron oxide to give the planet its characteristic reddish hue.//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Major gases;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__//carbon dioxide//__//, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Minor gases;**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">water, nitrogen oxide, neon, hydrogen- deuterium- oxygen, krypton, xenon

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**Surface condition:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Wind speeds;**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//30 meters/second//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Temperature ranges;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//-125 to 23 degrees F//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Surface pressure;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//0.7-0.9 Kpa//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Weather;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//The daytime summer temperatures get up to 80 degrees F at night the temperature can drop to almost -200 degrees F//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**Water**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//So far frost and condensation//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**Explorations:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Phobos- grunt, Nov. 8, 2011// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Yinshuo- Nov. 8, 2011// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Mars science laboratory- 26 Nov. 2011// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Phoenix 04 Aug. 2007//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**Habitability:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//To live on the planet Mars it would first have to be changed by the process of terra forming- or, in layman terms, make the land more Earth-like. You would be freezing if it wasn't.//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Future human travel;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//It is important to provide everything you have to live; food, air, exercise, and more. People will have to have a living space, places to grow crops, and a water supply. If we had these thing on Mars then maybe someday we could go to Mars.//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Terraforming;** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//It would have to be warmer and the surface would have to be similar to Earth's, and there couldn't be as much crators for humans to live there.//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**Cool Facts:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//If you weigh 100 pounds on earth, you'll weigh 38 pounds on Mars.//

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">__**3 interesting fact:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//1.The month of March is named after Mars// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//2. During a Mars winter, 20% of the air freezes// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//3. Mars' crust is thicker than Earth's and is made up of one piece//

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__**References:**__
[|Random Facts] [|NASA/gov.] [|mars institute]