1. Mars: The Red Planet
By: Kat Saddler

2. Symbol & Name Named by Romans Ares:god of war
Because of red color (blood)

3. Discovery
Discovered by Ancients
Date Unknown

4. Planet Measurements Mass: 6.4169 x 10^23 kg
Volume: x 10^11 km^3
Density: g/cm^3
Sink in Water: density > than water’s (water’s density=1 g/cm^3
Gravity: 3.71 m/s^s

5. Atmosphere Consists of… Carbon Dioxide Nitrogen Argon
Thin atmosphere (not a lot of atmosphere)

6. Distances Order from the sun: 4 Distance from the sun: 227388763.45km
Distance from Earth: km

7. Orbit and Rotation One year (orbit sun): 1.9 earth years
One day (rotate on axis once): earth days; hours

8. Temperature Average: -55 degrees Celsius; -67 degrees Celsius
Average on Earth: -88 low; 58 max (degrees Celsius)
Average in Florida: 26 degrees Celsius

9. Appearance Rocky Planet (inner planet) Dry like a desert Altered by
volcanoes
impacts
crustal movement
atmosphere effect

10. Composition No one knows what Mars is made of Scientists has a mission
InSight: mission to figure out what is in the interior of mars

11. Looks
Red (red planet)
Bumpy
Rocky
Has craters

12. Water Martian atmosphere is too thin
(To have liquid water for a long time)
Water-ice is found under the surface
(Polar regions)

13. Weather Seasons = last twice as long as Earth’s
Spring(north)+Fall(south)=longest
Fall(north)+Spring(south)=shortest
High: 70 degrees Fahrenheit
Low: -225 degrees Fahrenheit

14. Moons 2 moons Found by Asaph Hall
Named by the sons of Ares (Ares=mars)
Phobos: 1887(6 days after), crater (10 km wide) called Stickney, mean fear in Greek
Deimos: 1887, means flight, large amount of craters

15. What would happen if a human traveled to your planet?
It is a really thin atmosphere
There is no protection from the sun’s rays
People can’t breathe because there is no oxygen

16. Fun Facts More than 40 spacecrafts 1st success: 1965=Mariner 4
Insight: INterior Exploration Using Seismis Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
Mission: to find out what is in Martian interior and Earth’s evolutionary formation

17. Works Cited
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Phobos. N.d. Photograph. Wikipedia, n.p.
Deimos. N.d. Photograph. Wikipedia, n.p.
Water_ice_clouds_hanging_above_Tharsis. N.d. Photograph. Wikipedia, n.p.
Ferrit+on+mars+curiosity. N.d. Photograph. UFO SIGHTINGS HOTSPOT, n.p.
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1. N.d. Photograph. Grida, n.p.
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