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One of the difficulties in landing rovers on Mars is the presence of a marsquake that has been going continuously for almost fifty years. | |
Mars's relatively flat northern hemisphere is thought to be the result of a massive impact with a Pluto-sized body nearly four billion years ago. | |
Mars derived its name from the Roman god of war. | |
Martian rovers have found the fossils of small organisms when digging through the surface. | |
Mars has the strongest magnetic field of any planet in the Solar System. | |
When Mars is at its closest approach point to Earth, the number of cataclysmic events grows significantly on Earth due to gravitational imbalances. | |
On the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, Mars appears larger in the night sky than the Moon. | |
Deimos is so small (relative to Mars) that to an observer on the surface, it would more resemble a star. | |
The low atmospheric pressure of Mars makes liquid water on the surface impossible. | |
Recently declassified Soviet documents showed a manned mission to Mars in 1972 that ended in the tragic deaths of the three cosmonauts on board. | |
Jonathan Swift predicted the existence of Mars's moons and their rough orbits in Gulliver's Travels, about 150 years before they were actually discovered. | |
Although Olympus Mons is the tallest planetary mountain in the Solar System, there is a mountain at the center of an impact crater on Vesta that is taller. | |
Mars's two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are believed to be captured asteroids. | |
Though only about 10% of the size of the Earth, Mars's density is enough that its gravity is almost the same as Earth's. | |
India, China, and the United Arab Emirates have all completed successful missions to Mars. | |
In 2016, NASA found underground ice in the Utopia Planitia that, if melted, would be the volume of Lake Superior. | |
Mars derives its red color due to the heat of the Sun. | |
Scientists did not successfully get a working lander on Mars until the 2010s. | |
Phobos is slowly drifting toward Mars and will one day break up in the atmosphere. | |
Mars is slowly drifting closer to the Sun and will, in several million years, become the third closest planet. | |
Mars derived its name from the Roman god of war. | |
Although Olympus Mons is the tallest planetary mountain in the Solar System, there is a mountain at the center of an impact crater on Vesta that is taller. | |
Mars's two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are believed to be captured asteroids. | |
India, China, and the United Arab Emirates have all completed successful missions to Mars. | |
The low atmospheric pressure of Mars makes liquid water on the surface impossible. | |
In 2016, NASA found underground ice in the Utopia Planitia that, if melted, would be the volume of Lake Superior. | |
Phobos is slowly drifting toward Mars and will one day break up in the atmosphere. | |
Deimos is so small (relative to Mars) that to an observer on the surface, it would more resemble a star. | |
Mars's relatively flat northern hemisphere is thought to be the result of a massive impact with a Pluto-sized body nearly four billion years ago. | |
Jonathan Swift predicted the existence of Mars's moons and their rough orbits in Gulliver's Travels, about 150 years before they were actually discovered. | |
Mars derives its red color due to the heat of the Sun. | |
On the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, Mars appears larger in the night sky than the Moon. | |
Scientists did not successfully get a working lander on Mars until the 2010s. | |
Recently declassified Soviet documents showed a manned mission to Mars in 1972 that ended in the tragic deaths of the three cosmonauts on board. | |
Though only about 10% of the size of the Earth, Mars's density is enough that its gravity is almost the same as Earth's. | |
Mars is slowly drifting closer to the Sun and will, in several million years, become the third closest planet. | |
One of the difficulties in landing rovers on Mars is the presence of a marsquake that has been going continuously for almost fifty years. | |
Mars has the strongest magnetic field of any planet in the Solar System. | |
Martian rovers have found the fossils of small organisms when digging through the surface. | |
When Mars is at its closest approach point to Earth, the number of cataclysmic events grows significantly on Earth due to gravitational imbalances. | |
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