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Planet Mars
The 4th planet from the sun in our solar system. It is commonly called the "Red Planet".
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3.1 minutes
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56x10^6 miles x (1.61km/ 1 mile) = 9.016x10^7 km away is the closet then...
speed of light, 3.00x10^5 km/second....
(1 second/3.00x10^5 km) * (9.016x10^7 km) = 301 seconds....
...301 seconds * 1 minute/ 60 seconds = 5.02 minutes
...I get 5.02 minutes.
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Marvelous ! Now we have two answers to the question ... The first contributor
said 3.1 minutes, and the second one said 5.02 minutes. Which one is correct ?
They can't both be right.
Or can they !
Take a look at the ratio of the two answers: 5.02/3.1 = 1.61935... Does that number
look familiar at all ? It should. It's within 0.63% of the number of kilometers in 1 mile.
The first contributor looked at the "56 million" in the question, said to himself
"that must be kilometers", and worked the arithmetic that way.
The second contributor looked at the "56 million" in the question, said to himself
"that must be miles", and worked the arithmetic that way.
It's not too often that you get two wildly different answers to the same question
that are both correct, and you get to choose which one you like. But this is one of
those occasions.
The whole problem goes back to the question, where "56 million" is stated without
units ... a big no-no in just about any subject that involves measurements.
Spacecraft have been lost over sloppy work like that.
Yeah this is the Synodic Period... are you doing a crossword for a planet class right now... me too!
Why is mars called earth's sister planet?
Mars is called Earth's sister planet because it is similar in size and composition to Earth, and it is also a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere. Both planets have similar features such as volcanoes, canyons, and polar ice caps, which has led scientists to classify Mars as Earth's sister planet.
No, Jupiter is not colder than Mars. Jupiter is a gas giant planet located further from the Sun and has a thick atmosphere which traps heat, making it much hotter than Mars. Mars, being a rocky planet further from the Sun, has a colder average temperature.
What is the mythological name of Mars?
The greek name for Mars would be Ares, the god of war and the roman name would again be Mars.
Mars has a surface gravity of about 0.38 times that of Earth, so the acceleration due to gravity on Mars is approximately 0.38 times 9.81 m/s^2 which equals to about 3.72 m/s^2.
It depends on what you are ranking it by. It is the fourth planet from the sun, the 7th largest and second smallest.
How would a person fare on Uranus?
A person would not fare well on Uranus without a well-equipped, highly advanced spacesuit and life support systems. The extreme cold temperatures, lack of oxygen, and harsh winds would make it impossible for a person to survive.
Mars is never what we would call "hot." It is too far from the Sun. You probably know that Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun. Mars is about 142 million miles from the Sun (on average). In the winter, Mars can get as cold as minus 60 degrees Celsius. In the summer, the temperature on Mars reaches about 60 degrees below zero. So, although summer is much warmer than winter, it is never as warm as Earth. The difference in temperature is due to the fact that Mars is tilted on its axis. Just like the Earth, as Mars orbits the Sun, the seasons change. But, all the seasons on Mars are cold!
The highest recorded surface temperature on Mars is 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest recorded atmospheric temperature is -20 degrees Fahrenheit.
earth is on one side of mars.
Jupiter is on the other.
(bare in mind, there is a asteroid belt between mars and jupiter)
And said Asteroid Belt used to be a planet.
Poor Maldek, smashed by the crazy Martians :-)
What is closer the Moon or Mars?
The Moon is closer to Earth than Mars. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, while the Moon is Earth's natural satellite. The average distance from Earth to the Moon is about 238,855 miles, whereas the average distance from Earth to Mars is about 140 million miles.
What is the orbital speed of mars?
The average orbital speed of Mars around the Sun is about 24.1 kilometers per second, or approximately 53,800 miles per hour.
How many years is equal to 4170 days?
365.25 days ≈ 1 year
⇒ 4170 days ≈ 4170 ÷ 365.25 years
≈ 11.417 years.
4170 days would be 11.4168 years
If the first day was January 1st, 2000, day 4170 would be June 1st, 2011.
This period of time would have three leap years of 366 days and eight regular years of 365 days.
366 x 3 = 1098 days
365 x 8 = 2920 days
total days = 4018 days
4170 - 4018 = 152 days
Jan = 31 days
Feb = 28 days
Mar = 31 days
Apr = 30 days
May = 31 days
total days = 151
So day 4170 would fall on June 1st
There you go!
What is the planet Mars named after?
The planet Mars is named after Mars, the Roman God of War.
Mars is red in color, when seen from Earth, and hence was related to blood, and further, war. Keeping with the tradition of naming Astronomical objects after Greek/Roman deities or mythological characters, Mars was named after the Roman God of War.
39.5 AU (astronomical units) from the Sun is a distance equivalent to about 5.9 billion kilometers or approximately 3.7 billion miles. This distance marks the outer edges of our solar system and is beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Mars has an average diameter of about 6,779 kilometers (4,212 miles), making it roughly half the size of Earth.
Why does Mars not have plate tectonics?
"Smaller terrestrial planets like Mars cooled more rapidly than Earth and lost its internal heat much earlier in their history. Mars experienced plate techtonics very early in its history (4 billion years ago) when it was still hot. When the interior cooled, plate techtonics stopped."
- as quoted in Chapter 4 "Plate Tectonics" on page 101 from the textbook The Good Earth: Introduction To Earth Science
What place is mars from the sun?
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. It lies between Earth and Jupiter.
How many miles and kilometers is the distance from mars to the sun?
What would you need to be able to live on mars?
Well, the big problem would be air. Mars has an atmosphere, but it's very very thin... far thinner than on even the highest mountains on Earth.
The highest atmospheric pressure on Mars is at the bottom of the Hellas Planitia, and it's about 1.16 kilopascals. For reference, sea level pressure on Earth is about a hundred times that, and even at the top of Mt Everest it's still 30x that.
At a pressure of about six and a half kilopascals, water boils at human body temperature, meaning that's pretty much the absolute limit for human survival... anything less than that, even neglecting the fact that you need oxygen to survive, and the inside of your lungs would boil.
So: Gas mask and oxygen tank. A pressure suit would also be a good idea.
Next, you'd need water. There is some water on Mars in the form of ice. Even better, once you thaw it (in a pressurized environment so it doesn't boil), you can electrolyze it for oxygen.
You'll need heat. Mars can, under idea conditions in certain spots, get to a nearly balmy 80 degrees Fahrenheit or so, but that's pretty much an absolute maximum (and it's ground temperature of rocks that have been in the sun all day, not air temperature). The Viking landers have measured temperatures ranging from a high of about 0 Fahrenheit down to -160 F. Make that pressure suit pretty thick, and consider electrically heating it.
Finally, you'll need food. There isn't any on Mars, and it's questionable whether you could grow any there, even in a greenhouse, because of a lack of organic nutrients in the soil.
The meaning of the symbol of Mars?
mars means the peach of the universe that ate the apple in ww1 that tasted like the spaghetti that landed in someones pie so they happened to sit upon a elephant that was purple and can type like a number that seeks homes.
An excellent question. At the moment, we don't know if anything lives on Mars. It seems likely that something might have, once upon a VERY long time ago, but the evidence is fragmentary. Actually, it's worse than that. There's nothing.
There is nothing in the soil that the Viking probe was able to analyze, but the polar orbiters seem to have discovered an anomalous trace of methane in the Martian atmosphere, and we're not yet sure what might create methane other than some sort of biological process. Of course, Mars is really close to another planet that is full of life, so it's hard to be sure about these things.
Is the atmosphere on Mars breathable?
No, the atmosphere on Mars is made up mostly of carbon dioxide with very little oxygen. It is not breathable for humans.
About twice the distance you could on earth. You could jump much further if you didnt have to wear a spacesuit. Maybe we can have a Lunar Olympics someday if we make an atmosphere for the moon like we have here on earth.
No one has yet walked on mars, it would take about 60 years to get to mars in a space ship, that's because our cerebral fluid (Spelling mistake might be) helps us balance etc, and it will be damaged if we went 7 months, as fast as a probe goes. As you can see humans only support really the slowest speeds.
^ Whoever wrote this is an idiot. While no one has yet walked on Mars, NASA intends to send a human crew to the red planet sometime in the next 20-30 years. The voyage lasts approx. six months, and the main concerns are radiation shielding for the trip and while on Mars, and sufficient rations for the three year round-trip. Mars' orbit is longer than Earth's so astronauts will have to stay on Mars for two years after landing, in order to take advantage of a launch window giving them the shortest distance to return.
