I need 2 know evreything about mars
2007-01-23 10:12:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
THE Fourth planet from the sun is mars. Mars is named for the Roman god of war and is sometimes called the red planet because it appears fiery red in the night sky. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, smaller than earth,rotates once in 24hrs 37min,
around sun 680days to rotate once, no human life Temp ranges from 190degrees F below zero at night to 45Degrees below 0 in mid afternoon If you weight 100 pounds on earth you would only weigh 38 pounds on Mars. Has 2 moons Phobos and Deimos Named after Greek gods are odd in shape. Mars does have seasons like earth. Most of mars is rocky desert Has volcanoes and is also dusty planet Surface is covered by orange-red dusty soil No liquid but lots of ice
polar ice caps are covered with dust
Mean diameter 4,200 miles
Mean distance from sun 141600000
Mean speed of revolution 54200 miles per hour
Length of a year 687 earth days
length of a day 24 1/2 earth hrs
Gravity 0.38 of earths
Temperature range 70 degree f to 150 degree F
Moons 2
Hope this helps and u can understand it
2007-01-23 10:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Next opposition appearance will be in December. Don't fall for the inevitable email hoaxes that will hype up a supposed appearence in August!
2007-01-23 18:22:50 · answer #2 · answered by Search first before you ask it 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
goto Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet) or check out the solar sytem facts on Google or othere search engines. If you have Microsoft Student there can be quick facts which are distances from sun, rotational period and many more..
2007-01-23 18:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mars does in fact have an atmospher thats why all martion landers hadto have heat shields bofore landing on mars
Cheers
2007-01-23 19:02:13 · answer #4 · answered by Concorde 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the fourth planet from the sun.
2007-01-23 18:19:38 · answer #5 · answered by tercir2006 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no atmosphere, very prone to sun flares, very high radiation, has frozen ice caps, red dry barren rock land.
2007-01-23 18:21:01 · answer #6 · answered by jenah_leigh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read books and read articles.
www.astronomy.com, Discover magazine, and nasa.gov are good places to start.
2007-01-23 22:24:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at this source.
2007-01-23 18:32:32 · answer #8 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go on the NASA website
It has tons of stuff
2007-01-23 18:17:58 · answer #9 · answered by sur2124 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋