about mars planet?

Answer 1

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. Mars is also known as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance when seen from Earth. The prefix areo-, from the Greek god of war, Ares, refers to Mars in the same way geo- refers to Earth.

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small and oddly shaped. These may be captured asteroids similar to 5261 Eureka, a Mars Trojan asteroid. Mars can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its apparent magnitude reaches −2.9, a brightness surpassed only by Venus, the Moon, and the Sun. For much of the year, Jupiter may appear brighter to the naked eye than Mars.

Until the first flyby of Mars by Mariner 4 in 1965, it was hoped, both within and especially perhaps outside scientific circles, especially in the popular media and literary circles, that Mars had ample liquid water. This was based on observations of periodic variations in light and dark patches, particularly in the polar latitudes, and long dark striations that could perhaps even be irrigation channels of liquid water.

These straight line features were shown in fact not to exist when they were subsequently analyzed and explained as optical illusions. Still, of all the planets in our solar system other than Earth, Mars is the most likely to harbor liquid water, and perhaps life, so the myth has had enough influence that even now probes carry packages to attempt to find microscopic life. Mars' rotational period and seasonal cycles are also similar to those of the Earth. It has the highest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris, and polar ice caps. Recent evidence also shows that there may have been flowing water on Mars as recently as a few years ago

Answer 2

Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War. The planet probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as the Red Planet. (An interesting side note: the Roman god Mars was a god of agriculture before becoming associated with the Greek Ares; those in favor of colonizing and terraforming Mars may prefer this symbolism.) The name of the month March derives from Mars.
orbit: 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun
diameter: 6,794 km
mass: 6.4219e23 kg
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Answer 3

MARS- the planet with still hopes of life from the day it discovered.....
ofcourse, it is the only red planet in our solar system..
and, moreover it is the only planet,where many satellites were launched to discover it , when compared to other planets in the solar system.......
apart from this, one more important thing is , in our solar system, the longest and also the strongest storm was happening in mars..... leading this red planet into an mystery...
do u know, this storm lasts not for months or even to years
but, to several centuries..........
see, the universe has many mysteries and miracles bundled on it without showing them off, like us.....

Answer 4

"lots of human beings" - who're those human beings? And why interior the international might they think of for one 2nd that Mars is now not a planet? Mars is a planet, only like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto is now not a planet (it became redefined as a dwarf planet in August 2006, yet it incredibly is previous information).

Answer 5

Yup Mars is a planet last time i checked.

Answer 6

What do you want to know????
The red planet, named after Mars the God of war.
Composed of iron oxide, (rust), which gives it the red colour.
No tectonic plates, no surface water, no oxygen.
Volcano's and mountains that are miles high, winds that have speeds of hundreds of miles an hour.
Nice holiday destination..............lol