1 / 9

THE PLANET MARS

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT MARS. THE PLANET MARS. Mars is like Earth because it has: clouds, ice at north pole, valleys mountains & volcanoes and because a day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes It has a summer and winter. THE PLANET MARS. THE PLANET MARS. Mars has very big dust storms.

mandell
Download Presentation

THE PLANET MARS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT MARS THE PLANET MARS

  2. Mars is like Earth because it has: clouds, ice at north pole, valleys mountains & volcanoes and because a day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes It has a summer and winter. THE PLANET MARS

  3. THE PLANET MARS • Mars has very big dust storms. • These storms can areas from 320 km to 3,000 km • Sometimes they cover ALL THE PLANET!

  4. Its GRAVITY is only 38% of the Earth’s gravity. A 100 kg person would only weigh 62 kg on Mars. THE PLANET MARS

  5. MARS’ TWO MOONS: DEIMOS AND PHOBOS DEIMOS: 27 km across PHOBOS: 15 km across

  6. Mars has three things necessary for life as we know it: • carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen • sunlight and heat inside the planet • liquid water THE PLANET MARS

  7. THE MARS MISSIONS MARS PATHFINDER – JULY 1997 MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR - 1996 MARS ODYSSEY PROBE – OCT 2001 SPIRIT ROVER – Jan 2004

  8. SOJOURNER ROVER • This probe found evidence of water and HAEMETITE: a rock only found in or near water. • Both Sojourner Rover and Opportunity Rover are still working on Mars!

  9. MARS PATHFINDER • Pathfinder & Rover sent over 17,000 photos to Earth. From these probes we now know that: • Mars was warm with liquid water on its surface millions of years ago. • At that time Mars had a thicker atmosphere. • MARS ROVER LANDING ON MARS

More Related