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Mars
By: Michaela Cephas
Mars?
 Where does a name
like Mars come from?
It sounds like some
kind of candy!
It comes from the Roman
God of war!!! (that’s the
Roman God to your……right
Where is Mars? In Mexico?
 Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun!!! (in outer
space)
 It orbits
227,940,000 km
from the Sun.
 Mars' orbit is
significantly
elliptical
Discovery
 There is no single person who is credited with the
discovery of Mars. Mars is one of the five planets
that can be seen in the night sky without using a
telescope or binoculars.
What does Mars look like? A giant
marshmallow?
 Mars looks like a big reddish orange and rocky
planet with no rings.
 Mars’s core is made of iron, nickel, and sulfur.
Rotation/Orbit
 A day on Mars is 24 hours 37min.
Size
 The mass of Mars is
10% of Earth’s.
 Mars’s diameter is
4,222 miles.
How fat are you on Mars?
 If you weighed 70 pounds on the Earth, you would
weigh about 27 pounds on Mars.
Orbit
 It takes Mars 686.98 days to orbit the Sun. That’s a
long time!!!!
Atmosphere
 Mars has a thin atmosphere close to Earth’s
atmosphere
 It is made of nitrogen, oxygen, and argon.
Temperature
 Minimum temperature is -123*C(-190*F)
 Maximum temperature is 36*C(98*F)
Moons
 Mars has two moons Deimos and Phobos.
Life on Mars
 Scientist believe once in Mars’s history Mars
harbored life.
 It would be to cold in the winter for humans to
survive.
Something awesome-ish cool-ish
 Mars has the largest volcanoes in the solar system.
 Mars might once have harbored life.