MARS
Mars is
the fourth planet from the sun and the
next beyond earth and is commonly is referred as red planet. It’s average, more
than 142 miles from the sun. It is 36 millions miles from the earth and its second smallest major planet in the solar system .
More About Mars
Mars is half size of the earth and has a flag on the mars its was designed by a Nasa engineering.
Surface of the Mars
colour , is quite similar to the colour of the rust , due to the presence of
high level of iron oxide in surface of the Mars.
Mars daily cycle quite similar to the earth . Both
Earth and Mars share a similar axial
tilt and rotation period , which accounts for
small 39 minute difference.
After earth Mars is the most
habitable planet in our solar system due
to several reason . It’s soil contain water
to extract , it is not too hot or too cold .
Mars has two moons
called Phobos and Deimos ,were predicted
by author Jonathan Swift 151 years ago.
Mars has four season like
earth have and on mars sunset are blue .
Mars has the tallest known
mountain on a planet four solar system with a height of a 22 km
Over 10, 000 people have
applied for one- way trip to colonize mars in 2022 .
4 billion years ago , mars had a ocean covering ,19%of the
planet surface and also had an oxygen
rich atmosphere around 4 billion year ago .
Mars has the largest dust storms in
the solar system they can last for
months and cover the entire planet .
Mars get is named by the Roman for
their god of war because its reddish color was reminiscent of blood .
Mars contain less percentage of oxygen at the surface and its
contains 95 % of carbon dioxide and 2.6% of molecular nitrogen .
MARS MISSIONS HISTORY
In 1965 Mariner 4
capture the first close up images of the
red planet and several Mariner mission
followed producing thousands of images of earth planetary
neighbor.
In 1971
Russia had its first success with Mars 2
unmanned space probe but failed to place a lander . Mars 3 arrived the first
ever lander onto the surface of
mars and it send back 20 seconds of video data from
1975 to 1990 two orbiters and two lander sent by Nasa mapped
and analyzed the planet surface searching for
sign of Martian life.
In 1997
Nasa’s mars pathfinder placed a stationary lander and the first ever surface rover on the red planet.
In 2003
Europe joined Martian explanation for the first
time with its Mars express orbiter and beagle two lander which never
communicated .
In November
2011 curiosity rover was launched form Cape Canaveral it was the largest
and most sophisticated
exploration vehicle which ever to be landed on another planet it is
explorative mission during two years collected evidence that liquid water and
ancient lake once exited on the red
planet .
In 2014
India became the first Asian power to place a space craft dubbed man
galleon into mars orbit.
In 2016 the joint Russian Exomars spacecraft blasted of form earth .
6 Technologies Nasa is advancing to
send human to Mars :
Powerful
propulsion systems to get us there quicker.
Inflatable
heat shield to land astronauts on other planet
High-tech
Martian spacesuits
Martian home
and lab on wheels
Uninterrupted
power
Laser
communications to send more information from home
Intersecting Facts :
On Twitter,
Nasa informed that people can send their names to the red planet aboard it’s
Mars Rover 2020 Mission. When our Mars2020 Rover lands on the red planet in
2021 it will carry a microchip etched with names of millions of people from the
earth.
Elon Musk
excepts SpaceX ticket to Mars will cost $500,000.But the return ticket is free.
United States and the Soviet Union are the
only 2 countries to land a spacecraft on a Mars.
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