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Is Mars like a desert

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  1. The whole planet is essentially a desert. Many areas resemble the harsher areas of Earth's deserts (e.g. Arizona, the Sahara, theArctic, and Antarctica): apparently lifeless, with sand, dunes, and scattered rocks, and little to no precipitation. Mars also has gncient gullies and channels apparently cut by sudden flows of water, as occurs in Earth's deserts after the infrequent, but torrential rains.

    Technically, a desert is anywhere where there is little to no precipitation (10 inches or less per year). Mars is too cold and lacks enough air pressure for liquid water to exist as rain or otherwise above ground. There is, however, occasional light snow (which never reaches the ground) and frost at higher altitudes. As on Mars and Earth's tundra, deserts may be and often are cold, and also may contain significant amounts of water/ice in the soil.

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Yes, Mars is a vast desert where it never rains. I recently saw some images taken from the surface of Mars and was astounded at how close they resembled scenes from the area where I live in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas.

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Beaches are usually associated with large open bodies of water. As there are none on Mars there are, therefore, no beaches.

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Very much so

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