Interesting Facts about Mars
Interesting Facts about Mars
Fact No. 1: Fourth Planet (Roman God of Battle)
Mars is the 4th planet from Sun and last terrestrial planet in our solar system. Mars is 227,940,000 km away from Sun. Mars is sometimes referred as the Red Planet because of the red soil color of its surface, rich in iron content. Mars is also the second smallest planet (also smaller than earth) after mercury.
Fact No. 2: Similar to Earth (Almost)
Mars in comparison with Earth, is mere 15% of the volume and 10% the total mass of Earth, This is because 70% of Earth's surface is covered with Water, which is not the case with Mars. Mars has just 37% of the gravity in comparison with Earth, now that being said you could jump higher i.e. 3x times higher than on Earth.
Fact No. 3: 687 Days = 1 Earth year and Eccentric
The orbital radius of Mars is 227,840,000 km. It take 687 earth days for Mars to complete one rotation around Sun. Orbital path of Mars is most eccentric, i.e. it is least circular in of all planets in Solar system.
Fact No. 4: Home to Intelligent Life
Some scientist claim, Mars once was the thriving with civilization and intelligent life. This belief came after the scientific findings, the series of grooves and lines on the Martian surface. This claim came from Italian Astronomer, but later on the claim was discarded due to lack of full proof evidences.
Fact No. 5: Largest Dust Storms and Tallest Mountain
Durst storms are the regular phenomenon found on Mars. It is believed that these dust storms are due to planets eccentric and elliptical orbital path. These storms can last for days and months. The mountain (dead volcano) Olympus Mons is approximately 22 km high and has the diameter of 600 km, believed to be formed billions of years of ago.
Fact No. 6: Most Favored by Space Agencies, Writers and Film Industry
Hollywood has released tons of movies based on Martian Extra terrestrial attacking Earth, also most favored by Sci-Fi writers and so far 39 mission has been launched by space agencies around world to know learn and gain knowledge about Mars.
Fact No. 7: Pieces of Mars on Earth
It is found that asteroids carry traces of Martian soil and its environment. One theory suggest that these were ejected into open space due to Mars collision with Asteroids. Some of these meteorites may have landed on entered into earth orbit at some point or may still happen. This theory came into existence because these meteorites are found well before the Mars mission were planned.
Fact No. 8: Colonizing Mars
Spacex and Blue Origin has already planned the mission for Mars for Human colonization. There are many reason, that makes Mars an ideal planet for human colonization and possibly habitable for longer stay.
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You are really space experts. Thanks for making this informative video
Keep it up bro
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I am not an expert, but space enthusiast and have great curiosity for space science and astronomy. Thanks tho.
@wayo, Planet Mars also called as Red Planet and Planet Of War, don't know why but it looks like that for sure.
And there is one more myth and that is first human beings arrived to earth from Planet Mars.
And researchers says that planet Mars have three pyramids which lookalike pyramids in Egypt. So much mystery.
Have a great time ahead and stay blessed.
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There has been numerous occasions and events in human history where people used the reference of planet Mars. Mars is special planet, not because it is most referred in literature and most closes to our Earth but it is more habitable and has many reason to support life in future.
Even if the facts are different, the governments and space agencies around world won't let people know about those pyramids or other finings, because this will send out the panic ripple across globe and may hamper financial establishment and trigger war across Globe.
That's true. There are many secrets and may be they will going to stay as secrets forever.
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After certain time period, the brain just gives-up on the hunger for knowledge, giving-up won't be the right word but, inside our soul, mind and brain just accepts that the universe and its anomalies are way bigger than we can ever understand, thus in past many saints and sages just accepted their existence is only for time being (just fraction of entire manifestation) and without any further thought they just got absorbed into the lemniscate. May be our brain is too small to comprehend everything in one lifetime.
In my opinion our Brain is limited but in my opinion our whole body is a thought and we can accumulate knowledge through whole body. Stay blessed.
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The ancient Greeks named the planet Mars after their god of war Ares, then the Romans did the same. Other cultures made links to the red colour and war association too. The red colour of the planet is visible in the night sky.
Mars is the 4th planet from the sun and sits between Earth and Jupiter. It is 78.3 million km further away from the sun than we are, making it a much colder planet.
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There is ambiguity or difference we can say in Greek and Roman Gods. Most of them has the same meaning except Jupiter. In this case Greek and Roman are on same page and mention Mars as God of Battle or war. I am curious where this association of red color with war came into existence, this may be because color of Blood is Red. Mars is not cold all the time, its elliptical orbital path plays very important role shaping the weather on Mars. in Mars is also terrestrial planet, there are four terrestrial planet in our solar system referred as terrestrial planet, Mars is one of them. I think, I must create a separate video on this Topic. Thanks for stopping by, please stick around for more videos.
This one totally got me thinking, Because when I watched super girl the series I heard a lot about Martians and life existence in Mars and a whole lot of stuff about Extra terrestrial attacking Earth expecially in Superman the Smallville and thanks for taking my mind back and this was really educative
One of the theory that is actually mentioned into Ancient Indian Scripture,vis more Bizarre and very mind boggling. It narrates how Mars came into existence. After the completion of this Series (4 more videos), I will take up the work of decoding the Indian scriptures and their connection with Space Science and Astronomy, Ancient Flying Machine (Vimanasa), Lord Shivas connection with Himalaya, Quantum Physics and String theory and much more. Thanks you for stopping by, stick around I will come-up with more interesting videos.