MARS

RED FACTS

• Nickname "Red Planet"
• Its atmosphere is 95 percent carbon dioxide
• You would need oxygen and need to wear an airtight suit to walk.
• Temperatures range from -140 degrees to 20 degrees Celsius.
• In Fahrenheit -140 is -220 degrees and 20 is 68 degrees.

IS MARS LIVING?

• As of now there can not be any living water on Mars.
• Any water would turn into gas.
• The only water that is on the whole planet is in the two polar ice caps.
• One northern and one southern.
• The water is frozen and contains carbon dioxide.

SEASONS ON MARS

• Mars has a tilted axis.
• In the winter an ice cap grows larger and turns into carbon dioxide.
• When one ice cap is growing lager one is shrinking.
• Many wind storms arise.
• Causing some regions to look darker.

EXPLORING MAR'S

• Mars has many craters just like the moon.
• New probes have visited many have figured that there was liquid water present.
• They examined many rocks.

VOLCANOS

• Some regions have giant volcanos others not.
• It shows that there was once lava that flowed from the volcano.
• No longer any active volcanoes.
• One volcano called Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the whole solar system.
• It covers an area so big it's as big as Missouri.

MAR'S MOONS

• Mars has two very small moons.
• One is called Phobos it is 27 kilometers in diameter.
• Secondly Deimos which is only 15 kilometers in diameter.
• They are both covered in craters.
• Astronomers predict that Phobos will smash into Mars in about 40 million years.

Summary
Mars is a red planet. It is the farthest away from the sun. To be exact it's 6,794 kilometers away from the sun. It also has 2 moons. The most out of any planet. Who knows maybe some day it will be you on Mars?