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Red Planet - Mars

 

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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