welcome to top6thing.blogspot.com we are so closed to home on our journey through the solar system , but there's just one last stop to make before flying to mother earth and that's Mars this red beauty sits 4th closed to the sun and brings with it so many interesting facts
The Top 6 Interesting Facts about Mars:
Mars Planet Profile:
Equatorial Diameter: 6,792 km
Polar Diameter: 6,752 km
Mass: 6.42×10^23 kg(10.7% Earth)
Moons: 2 (Phobos & Deimos)
Orbit Distance: 227,943,824 km (1.52 AU)
Orbit Period: 687 days
Surface temperature: -153 to 20 C
First Record: 2nd millennium BC
Recorded By: Egyptian astronomers
FACTS ABOUT MARS:
1. Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris:
Along with spiders,strange weather,and a heaping of dust , Mars is also home to the largest volcano and one of the largest canyons in the solar system Olympus Mons put to shame even our highest plaque, Mount Everest, beating its elevation by 3 times Theories state that the up and the volcano was able to form on Mars due to lower surface gravity and higher eruption rates,two factors that would aid in creating the oversized ticking time bomb Valles Marineris may not have the explosive power that Olympus Mons does,but it's 2,500 miles or 4000 kilometer length puts to shame the Grand Canyon, which comes in at 277 miles or 446 kilometers long, while comparing depths, called Marineris can be 6 times deeper than the Grand Canyon in certain parts, scientists today believe that Valles Marineris was created during the formation of the Tharsis region, which is home to volcanoes like Olympus Mons.
2. Spiders from Mars:
It's a great concept for a terrible sci-fi movie and was an even better name for David Bowie,s 5th studio album , but as of early 2016, spiders from Mars is a real interest to the people of NASA Alright, so we're not really talking about 8 legged creepy crawlies, but rather a series of formation on the red planet that NASA personnel has dubbed spiders. The formation is troughs created every spring as the terrain erodes during the change of the ice cap from ice to vapor. The term spider stems from the shape of the trough, which is created as gas flows beneath the ice to find an opening.
3. Polar Caps:
Due to its red color, we often think of Mars as this red hot ball, but it is so far from that In fact, Mars is home to two permanent ice caps The north and south polar caps differ slightly from Earth's own caps in that they are partially comprised of ice formed by carbon dioxide, otherwise known as dry ice, which would make sense considering Mars the atmosphere is 95.32% carbon dioxide Mars north polar cap is made mostly of ice formed by water, with a thin layer of dry ice that dissipates and reappears seasonally . The smaller, South cap differs from its northerly counterpart in that it's not as flat and contains large pits and troughs that have appeared due to erosion.
4.Quite the Dusty Planet:
On top of unusual weather phenomenon, Mars is also quite balled Hollywood tends to depict the surface of Mars as being an expansive desert with large dust storms, but that's not just for production value, it's believed that a combination of volcanic eruptions, landslides, wind abrasion, impacts, and the surface's overall dryness have attributed to the high level of dust with such high levels of dust , it's not uncommon for solar heating to warm the atmosphere, especially within the Hellas Basin, where temperatures are slightly warmer, which kick off the beginning of a rather nasty storm within hours , a storm can form and within days, it can be a massive, planet-spanning cell that leaves the air fogged with dust residue for weeks after.
5.Climate and a Most Unusual Winter:
The similar rotation of the earth also means that Mars has four different seasons, though the orbital path is more oval than sound, meaning that the lengths of these seasons are quite different when put side by side with the other 8 planets, Mars has a rather strange weather pattern seen nowhere else Martian snow as water ice snow has also been known to fall upon the Mars surface in relation to weather that we're used to , Mars is quite colder than our home planet, with temperatures reaching an average of -80 F or -62 C, but can fluctuate between a bone-chilling -195 F or -125 C, to a very comfortable 70 F or 20 C towards the equator during the day depending on the proximity to the sun, both the southern and northern hemisphere is subject to very short summer's or winters.
6.Distance from the sun:
Though Mars is only the fourth planet from the sun, it still sits at a rather distant average of 141 million miles or 227 million kilometers from the sun in relation to our positioning, Mars is approximately 49 million miles or 78 million kilometers further than we are, of course, all of this is not constant, considering the Mars orbital pattern, which is more elliptical in shape, one of the more unique orbits in our solar system at its furthest point from the sun, or at its aphelion, the red planet is approximately 154 million miles or 240 million kilometers away from the sun, while during perihelion, or closest point, Mars.
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