I need Mars info. Anything on Mars. For School Project. It needs to make Mars sound good.?
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Mars \nThe planet that is fourth outward from the Sun. Mars has a mean heliocentric distance (semimajor axis) of 1.524 astronomical units, equivalent to 141.6 × 106 mi (227.9 × 106 km). Its orbital eccentricity of 0.093, one of the largest of the major planets, causes the distance between Mars and the Sun to vary from 128 × 106 mi (207 × 106 km) at perihelion to 155 × 106 mi (249 × 106 km) at aphelion. The mean diameter of Mars is 4212 mi (6780 km), or about 53% that of the Earth. The planet has a mass of 7.08 × 1020 tons (6.42 × 1023 kg), about 11% of Earth's. The sidereal rotation period is 24h 37m 22.7s, corresponding to a mean solar day of 24h 39m 35.2s.\n\nMars appears to the unaided eye as a bright, slightly reddish star. Having a mean (synodic) period between oppositions of 780 days, Mars is in conjunction with the Sun every other year. Viewed through a telescope, Mars usually appears as a bright reddish disk marked by complex, semipermanent dark regions and variable white polar caps.\n\nInterior\n\nAccurate measurements of the planet's gravitational field made by orbiting spacecraft have shown that Mars has a dense core and thus is differentiated into a core, mantle, and crust. The crust, composed of silicate rocks, enriched in silicon and aluminum and deficient in magnesium, is believed to be about 30 mi (50 km) thick. Over geologic time, partial melting of the crust or upper mantle has caused lower-density materials to float to the surface, creating the observed lava plains and volcanic structures.\n\nAt present Mars does not have a global magnetic field of appreciable strength. However, early in its history Mars must have had a more substantial magnetic field, because its near-surface rocks exhibit strong remanent magnetism. See also Rock magnetism.\n\nGeology\n\nThe Martian surface has been modified extensively by the processes of impact cratering, volcanism, faulting, and fluvial erosion. The terrain in the southern hemisphere is very heavily cratered and thus quite old, having formed some 3.8 × 109 years ago. Much of it stands 1–2 mi (1–4 km) higher than the planet's mean radius. By contrast, the northern hemisphere is dominated by vast, lava-covered plains with relatively few impact craters and an average elevation of about 3 mi (5 km) below the mean radius.\n\nThe Tharsis rise, or bulge, is an uplifted portion of the surface that stands several kilometers above the mean elevation of the planet. Most of Mars's tectonic features are associated with Tharsis, which affects approximately one-quarter of the entire surface.\n\nThe Martian surface exhibits several enormous shield volcanoes. The largest and perhaps the youngest is Olympus Mons, which is nearly 370 mi (600 km) across at its base and stands approximately 16 mi (26 km) above the surrounding terrain. Three other large shield volcanoes, Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons, lie along the nearby Tharsis rise. In shape and structure the Martian shield volcanoes bear a strong resemblance to their Hawaiian counterparts. At the summit of each shield is a complex of calderas, collapsed craterlike features that were once vents for lava.\n\nPerhaps the most spectacular features on the Martian surface are the huge canyons located primarily in the equatorial regions. Valles Marineris, actually a system of canyons, extends for over 3000 mi (5000 km) along the equatorial belt. In places, the canyon complex is as much as 300 mi (500 km) wide and drops to more than 4 mi (6 km) below the surrounding surface. Dwarfing the Earth's Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris is comparable in size to the great East African Rift Valley. In general, the walls of the canyon are precipitous, have well-defined edges, and show evidence of slumping and landslide activity (Fig. 1).\n\n\nAn image from the Mars Global Surveyor resolves features as small as 20 ft (6 m) in a 10-km-wide portion of Coprates Chasma, which is located in the middle of Mars's vast
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This is a brilliant thought. Please read the book "The Case for Mars" by Dr Robert Zubrin, PhD. for a nuts and bolts down to earth scientific discussion of what it would take to put men on Mars, and ultimately to turn Mars into an Earthlike planet. It is available on amazon.com and in many local bookstores. I highly recommend it.
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sorry no answer.  but i was wondering?  How is Mars this time of year?
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There has been bacteria found on mars before.  I also think that it whould be silly to make one planet only contain life forms.  There is a huge univese and I'm pretty sure that there is.
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hope these websites help...\n\n\nhttp://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/mars.html\nhttp://www.the-planet-mars.com/
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Hi!  This has been my fav. site when it came to doing science projects so far.  http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/index.php\nRemember to call your local papers and have a write up done on it so you have a good turn out for the crowd.  Good luck!
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Mars is not hot. It's pretty cold. The average surface temperature is -8°C. In best conditions, it takes about a month to get there. The trip would be on a spaceship and you'd be PARTYING!
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Sorry, but there is no evidence of life on Mars.  But, scientists have very strong beliefs that it may exist on Mars and other planets.  The type of life that may exist would be microscopic.
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Rent a big bus, drive them to Mars, drop them off and \ncome back.  There will be plenty more to take their place...
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It looks the same to me?  They added Google Mars today.  http://mars.google.com
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there is a lot of research on sound/acoustics here is a good source of information http://www.livesoundint.com/
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You could make a model of the solar system.  Use different sized Styrofoam balls for the planets.
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This site has up-to-date release-quality photos (ie. not raw data, just the images that are good enough for a regular person to want to look at) from the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity):\n\nhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/
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Yes i have some interesting facts about mars!!!The belief that there may be life on Mars was popularized in the 19th century, mainly due to the announcement of Martian canals from the observations by Percival Lowell and Giovanni Schiaparelli. Schiaparelli called these observed features canali, meaning channels in Italian. This was popularly mistranslated as 'canals', and the myth of the Martian canals began. They were apparently artificial linear features on the surface that were asserted to be canals, and together with the seasonal changes in the brightness of some areas, they were thought to be linked with vegetation growth. This gave rise to many stories concerning Martians. The linear features are now known to be mostly non-existent or, in some cases, dry ancient watercourses. The color changes have been ascribed to dust storms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere isn't any that we've yet discovered. But there's plenty of evidence that there was once water, and so possibly there was once life, although we've yet to discover any fossils or anything like that. If there was life, it was probably only microbial. But hey, it's a whole planet, who knows what we'll find. \n\n\n\nThere is no life on Mars, however their are all the signs that life was their once since their are large river like gorges covering the planet. Since then Mars' core (i think) cooled to low to support life and so everything cooled. Search for life still continues with little success. \n\n\n\nLife on mars is very possible. It would probably have lived a looooong time ago, back when mars probably had water. Most of that water is frozen in permafrost now though! A mars mission would look for fossil es as well as signs of water being on the surface.
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There is a great song by Eric Idle used in the film Monty Python's Meaning of Life that talks about how many stars are in the galaxy and how far we are from galactic central point...it's catchy AND funny.\n\nIf it has to be instrumental then I would try the theme music from Carl Sagan's Cosmos...it was good and is recognizable to fans of science.
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Yes, You might have heard about terraforming. Recently i gave a seminar on it. It is the method to transform the mars so that its environment can support life as earth do.  But the only thing required is you and we to get together and work hard with unity for this project. This project is neither going to be of one country or one group but the entire man kind has to work together for it
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Still no life is mars,\nLet mars be the beautiful. if life comes there also then it will be earth.