What does Mars look like? Here are 5 stunning pictures of the Red Planet

NASA is bracing itself for lift-off of its Mars 2020 Perseverance rovers July 30 at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT). launch is set to take place from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA reports suggest that rover will take about seven months to travel to Red Planet. So after commencing its onward journey to red planet on July 30, it will land on Martian surface on February. 18, 2021. Mars Perseverance Rover will land in Mars' Jezero Crater to search for signs of life and also explore planet's geology and much more. Re on to kw, “What does Mars look like?” and or mind-blowing facts about red planet.

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Facts about Mars: What does Mars look like?

According to report on NASA’s official website, Mars is very cold. NASA has reported that aver temperature on Mars is minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which is way below freezing point. Mars’s surface is rocky and has a lot of canyons, volcaes, dry lake beds, and even craters like moon.

reason Mars is nicknamed as Red Planet is that it is covered with dust on most of its surface. Also, bright rust colour of Mars is derived from  iron-rich minerals in its regolith as well. If we compare this to Earth, soil on Earth is regolith too, but it is loed with organic content as well. According to NASA, iron minerals are responsible for oxidisation or rusting which causes soil to look red.

NASA reports also suggest that Mars has clouds and wind just like Earth. But, dust storms are rarely common on Red Planet, as wind blows red dust. Sometimes tiny dust storms can look like Earth’s tornos. NASA also claims that large dust storms on Mars can be seen from Earth. And because Mars is one-sixth size of Earth, large storms sometimes cover whole planet.

Like Earth, Mars also has Polar Caps. y appear, like finely layered stacks of water ice and dust that extend from poles to latitudes of about 80 degrees in both rrn and Sourn Hemispheres. NASA reports suggest that se polar caps were probably deposited by atmosphere over long spans of time. se polar ice caps remain frozen year-round. Here are five striking pictures of red planet.

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Facts about Mars: What is Mars me up of?

What we kw about Martian Air

According to NASA, atmosphere of Martian atmosphere is 95.32 per cent carbon dioxide, followed by 2.7 per cent nitrogen, 1.6 per cent argon, and less than 1 per cent oxygen. re is 0.13 per cent oxygen on Mars, to be precise. re is also 0.08 per cent carbon moxide, with mir amounts of water, nitrogen oxide, neon, hydrogen-deuterium-oxygen, krypton, and xen.

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What we kw about Mars’s Chemical Composition

According to NASA, Martian core is most timely solid and is composed of iron, nickel, and sulfur. NASA reports also suggest that mantle of this red planet is probably similar to Earth’s. Its mantle is reported, composed mostly of peridotite, which is me up primarily of silicon, oxygen, iron, and magnesium. Martian crust is probably largely me of volcanic rock basalt, which is also common in crusts of Earth.

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According to reports of a portal, scientists believe that on an aver, Martian core is between 1,800 and 2,400 miles in diameter which is 3,000 and 4,000 km, its mantle is about 900 to 1,200 miles which are 5,400 to 7,200 km wide and its crust is about 30 miles which are 50 km thick. One of most well kws facts about Mars is that it has one-third gravity of Earth. Experimentally speaking, if a rock is dropped on Mars, it would fall more slowly than a rock falls on Earth.

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