101 AMAZING Mars Facts That SHOOK Scientists

 

there are some crazy facts about mars  that many of us don't even know about  here are 101 facts about mars  101 the sun looks half the size on mars  as it does on earth  99. rocks from mars have landed on earth  before because of meteorites blasting  debris through space  98. mars measures 6780 kilometers across  at its equator 97  a single day on mars is only slightly  longer than a single day on earth  about 40 minutes long 96.  mars has a very thin atmosphere 95.  mars has only two moons but that's twice  as many as we do on earth  94 one whole year on mars lasts about  687 days on earth  93. it's named after the roman god of  war  92 mars is 227.9 million kilometers away  from the sun  91 we still don't know what the core of  mars is made up of  90. mars was volcanically active in the  past  89. in ancient greece mars was called  arraya 88. the volcanoes located on mars  are much larger than they are on earth  87. the largest volcano in the solar  system olympus mons is located  on mars 86. mars  isn't dense at all with only about 1  100th the density of earth  85. liquids can exist on mars surface  due to the low atmospheric pressure on  it  84. mars's moons may have once been  asteroids that were captured by its  magnetic field  83. mars had water and once may have  been completely covered in water  82. mars still has water to this day but  most of it is underground  81. we've been trying to live on mars  since at least the 19th century  80. jupiter is large enough to affect  mars rotation  around the sun 79  in 2003 during the opposition the sun  the earth and mars were all perfectly  aligned with each other  78 mars has polar ice caps 77  the month of march gets its name from  mars  76. the united states was the first  country to land a probe on mars  75. however the soviet union was the  first to  actually make a landing on mars 74.  since then  many probes have been sent to mars 73.  mars might just be the best planet for  humans to colonize  72. we've done more research on making  mars inhabitable than we've done on  making antarctica or a post-climate  disaster earth inhabitable  71. sometimes you can see mars from  earth with your bare eyes  70. the tallest mountain on mars is over  21 kilometers high which is about three  times taller than mount everest  69 there are a lot of ethical challenges  to mars colonization  especially when it comes to the economic  divide 68  nonetheless plans to colonize mars might  be closer than ever  with billionaires like elon musk working  towards it  67. the first spacecraft to attempt to  visit mars was launched in 1960  however that attempt failed 66.  the temperature on mars is almost  constantly around negative  70 degrees fahrenheit 65 you can see  storms happening on mars from telescopes  here on earth  64. because of mars lower gravity if you  weigh about 100 pounds here on earth  you'd weigh 38 pounds on mars 63  viking 1 and 2 were sent to the planet  to study it by nasa  in 1975 62 the romans and egyptians  conceptualized a planet  and they also realized that mars was a  planet much like the earth is one  61. mars is red because of the oxide on  its crust  commonly known as rust 60 mars's crust  is over 100 kilometers thick  compared to the earth's 40 kilometers  59.  mars is commonly known as the red planet  58.  if the statue of liberty was built on  mars it would weigh about 84  825 kilograms more than it does on earth  57. if you jumped on mars you would jump  three times higher than if you jumped on  the earth  56. according to some scientists life on  mars is even less likely than life on  venus  55. some storms on mars can actually  cover the entire planet  54. the first photograph of the surface  of mars was taken  in 1976 53 there are currently two  rovers on mars  52 in 2004 even more evidence of water  on mars was discovered  51. the distance between the earth and  mars is never the same  because they don't have perfect orbits  50. the storms on mars intensify when  the planet is closer to the sun  49 mariner 9 was the first man-made  satellite to orbit and map  mars in 1971 48 mariner 9 managed to  completely map the entire surface of  mars  47. during its mission that lasted less  than a year  the mariner 9 took over 7 000 photos of  the red planet and its moons  46. we only knew what the surface of  mars looked like after the 1970s  45. there was no mars mission throughout  the 80s  because of the reduced pressure of the  space race  44. in the 90s the mars global surveyor  was the first successful mission to mars  in over 20  years 43. the mars global surveyor also  took  thousands of pictures of mars 42. mars  has been observed by a telescope as  early as 1609  41. even nasa has plans to colonize mars  as soon as 2030.  number 40. an ozone layer was discovered  on mars in 1971  39 mars ozone layer is about 100 times  thinner than the earth's  38. the land surface available on mars  is roughly the same as there is on earth  despite being a much smaller planet 37  phobos one of mars moons  may crash into the planet one day 36.  the destruction created from the crash  might result in a ring being formed  around mars 35.  mars has all four seasons we have on  earth 34.  a season on mars lasts twice as long as  it does on earth  33. mars is the seventh largest planet  32 we've known about mars moons since  the late 1800s  31. there are at least 12 man-made  objects on mars today  30. in 2020 nasa sent a spacecraft that  will collect more soil  and send it to earth 29. mars soil might  have living organisms in  it 28th a rock originating from mars was  found in antarctica  in the 20th century 27. after  researching the rock  scientists found evidence that there may  have been living organisms on it  26. before humans colonize mars we will  probably try to introduce  other living organisms to it 25. the  longest and deepest canyon in the solar  system  is found on mars 24. we probably would  have visited mars by now if space  programs receive the kind of funding  23. the success rates of future missions  to mars  is expected to be 66 22.  sunsets look blue on mars 21.  nasa is the only space organization to  ever make a landing on mars  20. compared to the earth mars is 1.5  times further from the sun  19. mars may have layers of ice beneath  its surface  18. mars is about half the diameter of  the earth  17. there is more and more evidence  pointing towards previous life on mars  every day  16. nasa actually has a program called  seek signs of life which explores the  possibility of life  15. mars has its own hydrosphere much  like earth  14. another similarity to earth is that  it has its own cryosphere and  lithosphere  13. mars magnetic field turned off 4  billion years ago  12. mars magnetic field may turn on  again one day  11. a mineral called tritomite was once  found on mars  10. mars probably went through a period  of extreme heat in the past  9. extreme heat may have caused any  living organism to have died from the  planet  8. it's assumed that if there are any  living organisms on mars  they've dug deep into the surface to get  closer to water  7. if humans ever made it to mars the  first thing they'd probably do  is start digging 6. most mars scenes in  hollywood are filmed in a desert in  jordan 5. early photos of mars were  usually of horrible quality  4. because of their bad quality many  conspiracies took notice of weird  objects in these photos  3. some photos taken by the viking  orbiter even shows faces  and pyramids on mars two despite being  considered a cold planet temperatures on  mars can reach upwards of 70 degrees  celsius  one if you stepped out on mars without a  spacesuit  you would die instantly that's a wrap  for 101 facts about mars  if you enjoyed this article make sure to  leave us a like and subscribe to our  channel for more articles like this one