MARTS, THE RED PLANET

HUGO'S PRESENTATION
 Did you know that Mars is the red planet?
Mars is the “Roman God of War” and it’s called this
way, because its color is similar to spilled blood by
warriors in battle.
The color red
of its surface
is doe to its
high contents
of iron oxide
 It’s the fourth of the solar system
and it is smaller than the Earth, Its
size is approximately half that of the
Earth and it has a rocky core too.
There are four planes in the solar
system whit rocky core. Mercury,
Venus, Earth and Mars.
Its solar day has a duration of 24 hours, 39 minutes
and 35.3 seconds.
Its year has a duration of 687 earth days.
 Its rotation axis is declined 25° and this makes it
have seasons like Earth. Both have four. Summer,
spring, winter and autumn. Their times are different
 Its temperature
fluctuates between 52
degrees Celsius and -133
degrees Celsius.
Extremely hot and
extremely cold
Mars is the planet which is most similar to Earth and
for this reason, since the sixty’s the scientist think
that Mars have the necessary resources for
developing human life, so that there have been
some explorations over Mars.
 CURIOUS FACTS
You won’t believe this!
The Egyptians were the first to name red planet to
Mars
 CURIOUS FACTS
Listen to this.
Galileo Galilei was the first person to observe Mars
with a telescope. He did it in 1609.
 CURIOUS FACTS

The planet was first visited in 1965

 CURIOUS FACTS

Mars is our neighbor in the solar system

If we traveled from Mars to Earth at
a speed of 96 km/h, it would take us
a total of 271 years and 221 days to
get home. CURIOUS FACTS
A spaceship takes 150 days on
average
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There are many films about life in Mars