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Mars. By Wiley. Facts. Pictures. Moons. Mars is more than 140,000,000 miles from the sun . Mars is the fourth planet from the sun Mars has two moons. The length of Mars’s day is 24 hours and 30 minutes. The length of Mars’s year is 687 days. The diameter of Mars is 4,218 miles.
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Mars By Wiley Facts Pictures Moons
Mars is more than 140,000,000 miles from the sun. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun Mars has two moons. The length of Mars’s day is 24 hours and 30 minutes. The length of Mars’s year is 687 days. The diameter of Mars is 4,218 miles. Mars is a gas giant. Mars’s temperature is -200 to 32 degrees F or -139 to 0 degrees C. Mars is 0.38 times earth’s gravity. Planet Facts 1
Planet Facts 2 • Mars is nicknamed “ the red planet” • Volcanoes in Hawaii are very similar to those on Mars, but a lot smaller. • The first space craft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965 • Olympus Mons, a mountain on Mars, is the biggest mountain in our solar system.
You can click on this link to go to a really cool site about mars !!!! http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ Planet Facts 3
Moons of Mars • Mars has two moons. The two moons are Phobos and Deimos.
Bibliography • Mars by Seymour Simon • Discover Mars by Gloria Skurzynski • http:starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov • http;//jpl.nasa.gov