Mars.
fourth planet from the Solar System, tellurian and orange-red due to iron oxide
NASA Scientists Puzzled By Zebra-striped Boulder On Mars
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover captured this image of a black-and-white striped rock on Sep 13, 2024. NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ASU VIA SWNS. “> Scientists are puzzling over a boulder on Mars with zebra markings. The…
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About Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", for its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous atmosphere that is primarily carbon dioxide. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from −153 to 20 °C, and cosmic radiation is high. Mars retains some water, in the ground as well as thinly in the atmosphere, forming cirrus clouds, fog, frost, larger polar regions of permafrost and ice caps, but no bodies of liquid surface water. Its surface gravity is roughly a third of Earth's or double that of the Moon. Its mean diameter, 6,779 km (4,212 mi), is about half the Earth's, or twice the Moon's, and its surface area is the size of all the dry land of Earth.
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