Mars

  • Mars

     

    • The length of a year on Mars is 687 Earth days.

    • A day on Mars is 41 minutes longer than a day on Earth.

    • The temperature ranges from -220 ℉ (-140 ℃) to +70 ℉ (21 ℃).

    • It has 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos.

    • It would take more than 6 Mars to fit inside of Earth.

    • Mars has about one tenth of the mass of Earth.

    • On Mars, a 100 pound person would weigh only 62 pounds!

    • Mars’ atmosphere is 60 times less dense than Earth.  NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, which was the first vehicle to fly on another planet, had to have extra lift in order to account for the less dense atmosphere.

    • Mars’ atmosphere is mostly made of carbon dioxide.