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Terrestial Planets and their Qualities
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- All terrestrial planets are located inside the asteroid belt
- A planet must revolve around the sun form a sphere to be considered one
- Only Earth and the Earth's moon along with Mars have any traces of water
- Terrestrial planets have smaller atmosphere
Mars cont.
- What is gravity like on Mars?
- 3.711 m/s²
- Can Mars currently sustain life, was it able to?
- No, not in it's current form
- Orbit around the sun and revolution qualities?
- 687 days for a year, each day is 1d 40m
- Density, mass, diameter?
- 6.39 × 10^23 kg (0.107 M⊕), 4,221 mi, density is four times as heavy compared to water
Mars
Characteristics of a Terrestrial Planet
- Fourth planet from the sun
- mostly solid
- Mars surface is so old that the surface itself is rusting
- There has been ice found on the poles
- Smaller bodies than giants
- Composed of rocks and metal, some water
- Largely composed of oxygen compounds
- Terrestrial planets are said to be "oxidized"
- At one point all of the terrestrial planets were molten rock
What are the Terrestrial planets?
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Mars' Atmosphere
Works Cited
Populated entirely by robot rovers
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103503003981
- https://cnx.org/contents/LnN76Opl@10.22:ySOb2aRL@3/Overview-of-Our-Planetary-Syst
- https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/why-is-mars-red/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/science/space/mars-could-have-supported-life-nasa-says.html
- http://kids.britannica.com/elementary/article-353434/Mars?
- http://www.digipac.ca/chemical/mtom/contents/chapter1marsfacts.htm
- timeanddate.com