1. MARS Iron strong. Real men come from Mars. Beth Baldwin, Brittany Jones, Brittany Smith, Arianne Hogwood, Naomi Cary, Nick pollard

2. Color Mars has a reddish brown color because it’s surface is covered in iron dust which has rusted It is also covered in dust. Dust is a very fine- grained material, settled out in the atmosphere and forms a thick layer even on the highest volcanoes.

3. Missions to Mars Phoenix Lander - landed on the north polar region of mars. Its mission was to dig up and analyze icy soil. It carries a complex suite of instruments that are improved variations of those that flew on the lost Mars Polar Lander. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Launched August 12, 2005 and Arrived March 10, 2006. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was capturing unique views of mars with the most powerful telescope camera ever to another planet.

4. Mission to Mars (cont.) Mars Odyssey - launched on April 7, 2001 and arrived on October 24, 2001. It’s was an orbiting spacecraft designed to determine the composition of the planet’s surface, to detect water and shallow buried ice, and to study the radiation environment. From: NASANASA

5. Overview Its 6,786 km across and 228 million km from the sun Its day is 24.62 hours and its year is 687 days. Mar’s tilt is 25˚. It has 2 moons(Phobos and Deimos) and its atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide It has large dust storms blowing across the planet

6. Special Features The nature of Mars must be kept in mind before giving any predictions. Mars is a known fiery planet; stand for energy, power, courage, heroism, strength, endurance determination, dashing nature, hot and dry, god of life and death, masculine, strong at night, represents dark half, Tuesday, owns two sings-Aries and Scorpio.

7. History of Mars In 1659, Christian Huygens discovered a strange feature on the surface of the Red Planet

8. Person Sylvester Stallone because he is strong and couragous.

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