We present to you useful and interesting information we have compiled about Mars, one of the first stops of humankind’s colonization efforts.
The radius of Mars is about half that of the Earth. Its density is less than that of the Earth, its instensity is 15% of the Earth’s volume and its mass is 11% of that of the Earth.
The mountain called Mount Olympus on Mars is the highest known mountain in the Solar System and the canyon called Marineris Valley is the largest canyon.
Mars is still seen as the most likely planet to contain liquid water and life among the planets in the Solar System, excluding Earth.
Geological data obtained by spacecraft revealed that Mars previously had a wide variety in water; geyser-type water gushes or flows had even occurred during the past decade.
Mars, which has a thin atmosphere, is an earth-like planet with its face that includes meteor craters like the Moon and volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar regions like the Earth.
It is named after Mars, the god of war in Roman mythology.
It is also called the Red Planet because it has a reddish appearance due to the common iron oxide on its surface.
In the northern hemisphere of Mars, with 10.600km long and 8,500 km widthexistence of a huge meteor crater was detected. This crater is four times the size of the largest meteor crater ever discovered (the Atkien Basin at the south pole of the Moon).
On July 31, 2008, the robotic spaceship Phoenix Mars Lander managed to take samples from water ice in the shallow regions of the Martian soil.
Mars can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Although Jupiter often looks brighter than Mars to the naked eye, it is a brilliance thatVenus can only be surpassed by the Moon and the Sun.
Eackert Handler
