1. PLANET MARS Presented By: Samia Amir & Tauseef Saeed NCBA & E
Journey to the
PLANET MARS
Presented By:
Samia Amir
&
Tauseef Saeed
NCBA & E
West Canal Campus

2. INTRODUCTION
Sun
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and the second smallest planet in the solar, after Mercury. Named after the Roman god of war, it is often described as the “Red Planet" because the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance

3. Earth/Mars Comparison
Distance from Sun
141.6 Million Miles
93 Million Miles
Diameter
4222 Miles
7926 Miles
Length of Year
687 Earth Days
Days
Length of Day
24 hours 37 minutes
23 hours 56 minutes
Gravity
.375 that of Earth
2.66 times that of Mars
Temperature
Average -81 degrees F
Average 57 degrees F
Temperature Range
-127 C to 17 C
-88 C to 58 C
Number of Moons 2 1

4. TELESCOPE PICTURE OF MARS
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view provides the most detailed complete global coverage of the red planet Mars ever seen from Earth. This picture was taken on February 25, 1995, when Mars was at a distance of 65 million miles.

5. Does Mars have an atmosphere?
Yes, Mars does have an atmosphere. The Martian atmospherecontains about 95.3% carbon dioxide (CO2) and 2.7% nitrogen, with the remainder a mixture of other gases. However, it is a very thinatmosphere, roughly 100 times less dense than Earth's atmosphere.
The atmosphere is much thinner than Earth’s and is comprised primarily of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. It’s gravity is about one-third of our own.

6. LARGEST VOLCANO ON MARS
The largest volcano in the solar system is Olympus Mons. It is 624 km (374 miles) in diameter; about the same size as Arizona.
The altitude of Olympus Mons is three times the altitude of the largest peak on Earth, Mt. Everest.
Olympus Mons (Latin for Mount Olympus) is a large shield volcano on the planet Mars. By one measure, it has a height of nearly 22 km (14 mi).[3]Olympus Mons stands almost three times as tall as Mount Everest's height above sea level.
a mountain with a large, circular hole at the top through whichlava (= hot liquid rock) gases, steam, and dust are or have beenforced out: VOLCANO

7. Launching Spirit Rover Video

8. Spaceship typically travels about 300 million miles and about 8 months to reach Mars

9. What Is the Distance Between Earth and Mars?
The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers. The farthest apart they can be is about 401 million km. The average distance is about 225 million km.

10. Seasons on Mars
Like Earth, Mars has seasonal changes but the seasons last much longer. In Winter, Mars’ polar ice cap can reach down to 45 degrees latitude and then rapidly shrink during Spring. Dust storms are seasonal, also, as witnessed in this Hubble image.

11. Mars Probe Highlights – First FLYBY (Mariner 4) 1971 – First ORBITER (Mariner 9) 1976 – First LANDER (Viking) 1997 – First ROVER (Sojourner) Later Rovers Opportunity (2004) Curiosity (2012)
spacecrafts

12. Mars Probe Highlights
Spirit
Opportunity
The larger Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) landed in 2004.
Spirit lasted until 2010, Opportunity still going!

13. Landing Of Spirit Rover Video

14. Moons of Mars
Mars has two tiny moons named “Deimos” (Panic) & “Phobos” (Fear)
The moons are irregular and very small in size
Phobos 27x22x18 km
Deimos 15x12x10 km
The moons are probably asteroids captured by Mars
Deimos
Phobos

15. Curiosity Rover
Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL).
Curiosity  was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 10:02.
It landed on in Gale Crater on Mars August 6, 2012,

16. What Does Curiosity Rover Do?
A Mars rover is an automated motor vehicle which propels itself across the surface of the planet Mars upon arrival.

17. Gale Crater
NASA's Curiosity rover landed in the Martian crater known as Gale Crater.

18. LANDING OF CURIOSITY Atmosphere Surface Heat 1600 degrees Supersonic
Parachute
6500 pnd
force
Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing
Surface

19. LANDING OF CURIOSITY VIDEO

20. Mars in Books, Movies, TV, Radio

21. Indian Mars probe.
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan is a spacecraft orbiting Mars since 24 September It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
It is India's first interplanetary mission and ISRO has become the fourth space agency to reach Mars.

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23. bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars http://mars.nasa.gov/