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20 Interesting Facts about Mars

Here is a list of 20 interesting facts about planet Mars which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about the red planet Mars which you didn’t know!

Amazing facts about the planet Mars

Interesting Mars Fact List:

  1. Mars is home to Olympus Mons, which is the largest volcano in our solar system, standing 21km high and 600km wide across the base.

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  2. Mars gets its red colour from the iron oxide dust on its surface.

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  3. Mars gets its name from the Roman god of war of the same name.

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  4. Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, after Mercury.

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  5. On its one-year anniversary, the NASA’s Curiosity Rover sang “Happy Birthday” tune to itself on Mars.

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  6. Till date, only 4 countries/group have been able to successful send rockets to Mars: The USA, European Space Agency, Russia and India.

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  7. Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos.

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  8. Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.

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  9. Mars’ seasons are twice as long as those on Earth since it takes Mars 687 days to orbit the sun which is twice as long as Earth’s 365-day journey.

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  10. The first successful Mars flyby was achieved by the Mariner 4 in 1965.

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  11. In 1976, Viking 1 became the first human spacecraft to successfully land operational on the surface of Mars.

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  12. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is the cheapest Mars mission ever costing just $72 million.

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    NASA’s Curiosity Rover on the Martian surface.
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  13. The Hollywood movie Gravity was more expensive than India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.

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  14. Mars lacks an ozone layer, as a result each time the sun rises, Mars’s surface is bathed in a lethal dose of radiation.

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  15. Mars has the largest dust storms in the whole solar system which can even last for months.

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  16. Mars’s specific gravity is about 37% of earth’s specific gravity. Which means that you can jump on mars nearly 3 times as high as you can jump on earth.

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  17. Sun appears half the size on Mars as what it does on Earth.

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  18. The sun appears half it’s size when viewed from Mars, as compared to Earth.

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  19. In 1609, Galileo Galilee became the first person to observe Mars through a telescope.

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  20. Mars is the only planet to be solely occupied by man-made robots.

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