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There are currently 8 planets in our solar system, and Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun. All the planets orbit around the sun. Mars takes 687 earth days to do this.



media type="custom" key="9717302" align="left"Mars is about 1 and a half times as far away from the Sun as Earth is, and just over half the size of Earth, measuring only 6786 kilometres to Earths 12756 kilometres.



media type="custom" key="9706766" align="left" The surface of Mars is dry with dusty soil. There is oxidised iron in the soil which makes it appear red. This is why Mars is often called the red planet.

media type="custom" key="9812701" Mars has many different mountains, craters and canyons. One of which is Olympus Mons which is the highest mountain and an extinct volcano. It also has the largest canyon area in the whole solar system, called Valles Marineris.

media type="custom" key="9807875"Mars has a very thin atmosphere which

is made up of carbon dioxide. This allows sunlight to reach the surface during the day but not at night. The nights are extremely cold.

media type="custom" key="9717526" align="left" Mars has two moons called Phobos and Deimos. They both orbit Mars. Compared to earths moon they are quite small. The larger of them, Phobos, meausures approximately 27 km across and Deimos is only 13 km, where as earth's moon is about 3476 km!

media type="custom" key="9812023" Mars has ice at its North and South Poles.

The ice is made up of frozen carbon dioxide, which melts in the summer and then freezes in the winter.

media type="custom" key="9812095"Mars is a very windy planet. It's surface is covered in a fine dust which is often whipped up into dust storms. Winds can reach up to 362 kilometres per hour.

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[|//Voki// Home] BLAST OFF! Lets Explore MARS by Helen and David Orme

Our Solar System - Mars by Steve Potts

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