The brightest red star in the earth’s sky is in fact the planet mars. The planet’s deep red colour led to its being named after the god of war mars. The red color, the most distinctive feature of the planet, comes from rock and dust which cover its surface. The rocks had been measure up to 1 meter across. The dusty soil is rust colored because of iron oxide. Winds from dunes in some regions and wind borne dust gives the Martian sky a permanent pinkish tinge. At certain times wind speeds increase to over 100 km (62 miles) per hour, blowing up strong storms that lasts for months. Mars is half the size of earth and has a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide in which clouds from. Its creativity is about half that of earth. Spacecraft have been reveled several gigantic volcanoes and a set of canyons called the valleys mariners.
This canyon is ten times longer and four times deeper than the Grand Canyon in the united status. The Viking space craft searched for life on mars, but no traces of life were found. Some scientists believe they have found fossils of Martian cells in a meteorite. Mars takes about 24 hours, 37 minutes and 23 seconds to spin on its axis and 657 days to orbit around the sun once at an average distance of 228 million km (142 million miles).
Demos and Photos are the smallest known moon or satellites in the solar system. These were discovered in 1977 as more pinpoints of light and even through most powerful telescope they look specks of light. Mariner – 9 which orbited the mars in 1971 took photographs of mars moons showing them to be irregularly – shaped, created lumps of rocks. These have been believed to be the rocky members of asteroid, creature’s lumps after mythical servant of the god mars.
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