20 Interesting Facts about Mars

Nitin Sharma — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:08:45 +0000

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!

Interesting Mars Fact List:

Mars is home to Olympus Mons, which is the largest volcano in our solar system, standing 21km high and 600km wide across the base.
Mars gets its red colour from the iron oxide dust on its surface.
Mars gets its name from the Roman god of war of the same name.
Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, after Mercury.
On its one-year anniversary, the NASA’s Curiosity Rover sang “Happy Birthday” tune to itself on Mars.
Till date, only 4 countries/group have been able to successful send rockets to Mars: The USA, European Space Agency, Russia and India.
Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos.
Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.
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.
The first successful Mars flyby was achieved by the Mariner 4 in 1965.
In 1976, Viking 1 became the first human spacecraft to successfully land operational on the surface of Mars.
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is the cheapest Mars mission ever costing just $72 million.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover on the Martian surface.
The Hollywood movie Gravity was more expensive than India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.
Mars lacks an ozone layer, as a result each time the sun rises, Mars’s surface is bathed in a lethal dose of radiation.
Mars has the largest dust storms in the whole solar system which can even last for months.
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.
Sun appears half the size on Mars as what it does on Earth.
The sun appears half it’s size when viewed from Mars, as compared to Earth.
In 1609, Galileo Galilee became the first person to observe Mars through a telescope.
Mars is the only planet to be solely occupied by man-made robots.

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Interesting Earth Facts

Nitin Sharma — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:37:14 +0000

Earth is the planet to all the known life. Being the 3rd planet in the solar system, earth provides the perfect enviroment for life to thrive in. Here is a list interesting facts about our home planet earth which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Earth Facts List:

The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
The equator lies across 14 different countries.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific.
The Earth’s shape could be described as an oblate spheroid.
Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years.
Life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime.
The 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located in Asia !The air at the summit of Mount Everest , 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at the sea level.
The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Lambert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth is the peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m). It is farthest from the centre of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia.
Each year, about 1 million earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
Hawaii is the most geographically isolated land mass in the world.
Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tonnes of material each day.
Chemical Composition of the Earth mainly consists of 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulphur, and 0.05% Titanium.
An earthquake on 16th December 1811, caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards.

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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!

Interesting Mars Fact List:

We hope you liked the fun and interesting Mars facts, if so then please consider leaving a comment or sharing it with your friends. Read more amazing and fun facts by navigating through other facts that you see in the sidebar.

Interesting Earth Facts

Earth is the planet to all the known life. Being the 3rd planet in the solar system, earth provides the perfect enviroment for life to thrive in. Here is a list interesting facts about our home planet earth which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Earth Facts List:

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