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More about Mars



Hubble's sharpest view of Mars, taken March 10, 1997
Credits: Science@NASA
  • Fourth planet from the Sun, the next after Earth
  • Revolves around the Sun once every 687 Earth days
  • Length of a Martian day: 24 hours, 39 min., 35 sec.
  • Atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide (95.3 percent), nitrogen (2.7 percent), and argon (1.6 percent)
  • Surface winds up to 40 meters per second (80 miles per hour)
  • Surface temperature averages -53C (-64 F);
  • Surface temperature varies from -128C (-199 F) during polar night to 27 C (80 F) at equator during midday
  • Gravity only 38 percent as strong as Earth's
  • Two moons, each only a few kilometres wide: Phobos (larger moon) and Deimos (smaller)
  • Average diameter 6,780 kilometres (4,212 miles); about half the size of Earth, but twice the size of Earth's Moon
  • Average distance from the Sun 227.7 million kilometres (141.5 million miles)
  • Distance from earth varies from 54,500,000 kilometres (33,900,000 miles) to 401,300,000 kilometres (249,000,000 miles)

Source: Cornell University

Check that you understand what these words mean in this document
To revolve: to move round a central point.
Martian: the adjective deriving from the word Mars.
Surface wind: a wind close to the surface. 

For further information visit:
NASA Mars Atlas