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Mars is the planet most like Earth. A day on Mars is only 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth. It also has seasons of summer and winter. Millions of years ago, Mars was just like Earth. Rivers flowed across the land. An ocean might have covered half the Planet, and life could have flourished.
On Mars the temperature of a summer’s day reaches only 0
° C, but at night, it plunges to –80° C, that’s as cold as Antarctica in winter. During the winter on Mars, there are bone-chilling temperatures, of about –125° C. This is so cold that the air at the north and south poles of Mars freezes. Mars is 6794 km in diameter and is 228 million km from the Sun.Mars has two small moons that rush around it. Deimos, the outer moon, is only 15 km long that’s no bigger than a small city. Phobes, the inner moon, is a potato shaped moon 27 km long. Both moons could be asteroids captured into orbit by Mars’ gravity millions of years ago.
Wow! That’s Incredible!