In your table of contents

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In your table of contents

• Add Mars Notes

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Mars

• Mars is called the red planet.
• The reddish color is caused by rust (iron oxide)
  in the soil.
• Most studied planet other than earth.
• Viking 1 and 2 spacecrafts landed on mars in
  1976.
• Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars in 1997.
• These three space crafts give us most of the
  information we know about Mars.

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Mars

• Mars is a cold planet because of its thin
  atmosphere and distance from the sun.
• The pressure is so low in the atmosphere that any
  liquid water would quickly boil away.
• The only water found on Mars is in the form of
  ice.

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Martian Terrain

• Dry river beds on Mars indicates that there
  possibly was water in the past.
• Mars now has two polar icecaps that contain
  frozen water and carbon dioxide.

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Martian Volcanoes

• Mars has two volcanic regions.
• Olympus Mons is the largest mountain in the solar
  system is a extinct shield volcano.
• Mars has a gigantic equatorial rift valley, the
  Valles Marineris. This canyon system stretches a
  distance equivalent to the distance from New York
  to Los Angeles Arizona's
• Grand Canyon could easily
• fit into one of its side canyons.

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Moons of Mars

• Phobos and Deimos
• Irregular shapes
• Very dark surfaces
• Could be captured asteroids

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Mars Facts
12.7 light-minutes 24 hours, 37 minutes 1 year,
322 days 6,794 km -123 to 37C 38 of Earths
Distance from the sun Period of rotation Period
of revolution Diameter Surface temperature Surface
gravity
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On the back of your Mars hw sheet

• Imagine you are the first astronaut to travel to
  Mars. What would you see? How does it feel? Any
  strange encounters? What do you do while you are
  there? Collect any samples?
• Write a journal entry from your perspective as
  the first astronaut on Mars. Your response should
  be at least 10 sentences long.

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Brain Pop

• Mars Brain Pop Video