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Mars is roughly 1.5 times as far away from the Sun as the Earth is. The amount of light reaching an object declines as the square of its distance from the sun. 1.5 X 1.5 = 2.25. Thus Mars gets 2.25 times less light than the Earth does, or about 44% as much as the Earth.

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