Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Can you help me with information about the planet Mars?

What sort of information are you looking for?

 

If general information, Mars is the fourth planet from the sun—the next out from Earth. The Martian day is just longer than Earth's—24 hours and about another half hour—so you could adapt easily. You'd weigh about a third what you would here, but twice what you would on the moon. There's little water and only a thin atmosphere. Mars is close enough to Earth that humans have long thought about visiting it, even colonizing it. It became even more attractive after Venus's atmosphere was discovered to be intensely hot and dense.

 

For more on Mars at all levels, as well as information on current exploration, you might visit NASA's site: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/

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