Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. And it is a cold dry desert-like place, -80 Fahrenheit.
Credit Mark Cullen
Facts About Mars
Orbital period: 687 days
Distance from Sun: 227.9 million km
Gravity: 3.721 m/s²
Length of day: 1d 0h 37m
Radius: 3,389.5 km
Moons: Phobos, Deimos
Has polar ice caps (see top left in photo above)
Mars' Moons
Phobos, Credit Wikipedia
Deimos, Credit Wikipedia
Mars Dust Devils
Mars has Dust devils and tornados that sweep up the Martian sands in the air. Dust Devils on Mars were Seen by NASA's Curiosity Rover and mission and landing.
Credit JPL.
Visits to Mars
Mars has been visited several times:
Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover - 2020
Curiosity Rover -2011
MAVEN - 2013
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - 2006
2001 Mars Odyssey.
Pathfinder - 1997
Spirit Opportunity - 2004 to 2010
Mars Reconnaissance - 2005
Mars Global Surveyor - 1996
Two Soviet Union probes, Mars 2 (crashed) and 3 - 1971
Marier 9 (NASA Probe) - 1971
Mars Perseverance launch vehicle, Atlas V541 Credit NASA. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/
Many Rovers have traversed Mars, lately the Curiosity Rover.
Curiosity Rover. Credit NASA.
Mars Perseverance Rover
The video below shows the voyage of the Curiosity Rover,
Credit, Space Rip, Voyage of Curiosity: A Martian Chronicle 4k
This is a great video on Mars Missions.
Credit, Spark, What We Know About Life On Mars [4K] | Zenith | Spark
Cheers
Mark Brown