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Mars
red color of the planet which was also used
by other ancient cultures. Chinese
astronomers call Mars the fire star while
ancient Egyptian priests called it Her
Desher meaning the red one.
Fourth planet from the Sun
2. The landmass of Mars and Earth is very
similar.Despite Mars being just 15% the
Last of the terrestrial planets volume and 10% the mass of Earth, it
actually has a similar landmass because
and is around 227,940,000 km water covers about 70% of Earths surface.
from the Sun. The surface gravity of Mars is about 37% the
gravity found on Earth. This means that on
Mars you could in theory jump 3x higher than
Mars is the site of Olympus you could on Earth.
Mon. The Largest Volcano and
second highest known
mountain in the solar system.