Have you ever wondered if there was a planet very similar to Earth? Well guess what, there is! Mars is a very similar planet to Earth. Even recent studies have found that there could have been life on Mars many years back. Coming from the sun Mars is the fourth planet out right behind the Earth. Mars’s days are a bit longer than the Earth’s at 24 hours and 37 minutes per day. A year on Mars is 687 days, since the distance from Mars to the sun is 141 million miles. Mars has 4 seasons just like Earth since they have a similar tilt at 25o to the plane revolution.
As of right now Mars and Earth have very similar physical features. For example Mars has regular clouds, like the ones on Earth. Mars also has winds, volcanoes, and even almost the same length of day. Another physical feature that they share is that they both have ice caps on their poles. But many scientist think that long ago Mars was even more similar to Earth. They think that Mars might of had many water features, and a warmer and denser atmosphere.
Although Mars and Earth have many features that are the same, they have many differences too. One of the big reason Mars …show more content…
People have been wondering why the planet is red and orange. The answer is because of the many different iron oxides, or rust that it is made up of. Mars has two different sections of the planet. There is the southern highlands, and the northern lowlands. On the North side of Mars are plains that are very similar to deserts. Scientist think that they were probably smoothed out by water or lava that had once existed on Mars. Mars has very similar volcanoes as on the Hawaiian Islands, the volcanoes on Mars are very chubby and long, they almost look like shields. On Mars you can find many volcanoes, involving the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is 26 kilometers tall, and has a diameter of 600 kilometers, it is almost three times taller than
As of right now Mars and Earth have very similar physical features. For example Mars has regular clouds, like the ones on Earth. Mars also has winds, volcanoes, and even almost the same length of day. Another physical feature that they share is that they both have ice caps on their poles. But many scientist think that long ago Mars was even more similar to Earth. They think that Mars might of had many water features, and a warmer and denser atmosphere.
Although Mars and Earth have many features that are the same, they have many differences too. One of the big reason Mars …show more content…
People have been wondering why the planet is red and orange. The answer is because of the many different iron oxides, or rust that it is made up of. Mars has two different sections of the planet. There is the southern highlands, and the northern lowlands. On the North side of Mars are plains that are very similar to deserts. Scientist think that they were probably smoothed out by water or lava that had once existed on Mars. Mars has very similar volcanoes as on the Hawaiian Islands, the volcanoes on Mars are very chubby and long, they almost look like shields. On Mars you can find many volcanoes, involving the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is 26 kilometers tall, and has a diameter of 600 kilometers, it is almost three times taller than