Current interest in the searching and inspection and interesting facts of the planet Mars by scientists and NASA space Agency has glimmered and invoked an active public attention in the planet. Following is a list of interesting facts about Mars, its moons, and the red planet's relation to our home, Earth. Mars is a very interesting and well planet to know there may even be water on Mars but not discover yet. Nobody knows yet, that would be amazing if there was. Mars received its name from its red color. The month of March comes from Mars.
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Interesting Facts about Mars
- Mars is the 4th planet from the sun.
- Mars is the seventh biggest planet in our solar system.
- Mars is referred to as the Red Planet, due to its red soil made up of iron oxide, more commonly known as rust.
- Mars is named after the Roman god of war.
- The mass weight of Mars is 641,850,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg, i-e 372 Miles across.
- Surface temperature on Mars can range from the maximum of 310 K to a minimum of 150 K.
- Atmospheric components on Mars consist of 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon.
- Mars has two moons. Both were discovered by Asaph Hall in 1877 after a long and frustrating search for Martian moons.
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- The two moons are Deimos and Phobos.
- It is possible that the two moons may in fact be asteroids caught in Mars' gravity.
- After a close assessment by NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft, it was established that Phobos had a crater about 10 km (about 6 miles) wide. The inventor was named after Hall's wife's maiden name, Stickney.
- According to NASA, "Mars' moons are among the smallest than the other planets moons in the solar system. Phobos is a somehow larger than Deimos, and orbits only 6,000 km (3,700 miles) above the Martian surface. No acknowledged moon orbits closer to its planet. It beats around Mars three times a day, while the more far-away Deimos takes 30 hours for each orbit. Phobos is steadily spiraling inmost, drawing about 1.8 meters closer to the planet every century. Within 50 million years, it will either crash into Mars or break up and form a ring around the planet."
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