MARS: The Red Planet

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MARS The Red Planet
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Though Mars is much smaller than Earth, its
surface area is about the same as the land
surface area of Earth.
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This is one of the Polar Caps on Mars, the ice is
not just water, but solid Carbon Dioxide (Dry
Ice) as well. The frozen water lends it self to
the idea that there was once life on Mars
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The view from Mars

• Fourth planet from the sun
• Most Earth-like planet in our solar system
• About ½ the size of Earth
• Approx. 43 million miles from the Earth
• Axis on which it rotates is tilted approx.
  25.19 to its orbital plane
• Day is 24.66 hours (686 days in a year)
• Land terrain

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The Face on Mars
(a coincidental alignment of rocks and other
geologic formations.)
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• Cydonia Mense region of Mars (region of buttes
  and mesas)
• photographed along the escarpment separating
  heavily cratered highlands to the S from low
  lying, crater-free, lowland plains to the N
• features seen results of differential
  weathering and erosion of layers within the rock
  materials.
• important to geologists provides insight into
  the sub-surface of Mars, and to its surface
  processes.

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Surface trails

• Made from twisters that stir up new dust
• Trails appear because the twisters turn up new
  dust around the undisturbed dust.
• Know as dust devils

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Surface of mars

• Made of rock and metal.
• Has mountains/craters
• The dust which is an iron oxide gives the planet
  a reddish hue
• Has storms on surface much like earths.