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10 Important Facts Of Mars For Kids That Will Blow Your Mind


The planet Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar system. And, it is the second smallest planet in the Solar system. The planet Mars is almost similar to Earth. A day on Mars planet is slightly longer than a day on Earth. This article teaches you about the facts of mars for kids.

Here some of the important facts of Mars for kids.

Planet Mars

1.     Earth and planet Mars both have white polar caps. The polar caps on Mars are smaller and thinner than polar caps on Earth. The polar caps grow rapidly during the winter season and disappear in the summer season. The polar caps on Mars are much colder than the polar caps on Earth, so they contain frozen carbon dioxide it means which is used to create fog on stage shows and during functions. 

2.     The planet Mars is generally known as “the red planet” in the Solar system. The reddish color of the mars planet comes from the high amounts of iron oxide.

3.     The surface of the Mars planet is like the surface of the Earth and Moon. It has volcanic fields, mountain ranges, valleys, ice caps, deserts, and canyons.

4.     Mars is also known as the home of Olympus Mons which is a highest discovered mountain in the Solar system. A person standing on the surface of Mars in any location from where the mountain is visible, they don’t have a chance for viewing the top of that mountain. With the peak at 88,600 feet, Olympus Mons is about 3 times high as Earth’s highest mountain peak, Mount Everest.

5.     The planet Mars is smaller than the Earth. The planet Mars surface area occupies 28% of the Earth’s surface. Mars volume is about 15% of Earth and its mass is about 10% of Earth.

6.     According to the article “Facts of Mars for kids “, the planet Mars takes 687 days to complete its orbit around the Sun.

7.     The gravity of the planet Mars is 38% that of the Earth. For example, a 100 pounds material on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

8.     Approximately the planet Mars is located 138,000,000 miles away from the Sun. When the planet Earth and Mars both are on the same side to the Sun, the two planets may possibly come 35,000,000 miles of each other. But if both planets are on the opposite side to the Sun, they may be as far as 399,000,000 miles apart.

9.     The planet Mars has a very thin atmosphere, 3% nitrogen, 95% of carbon and 1.6% of argon, and the remainder consists of traces of oxygen and water.

10. Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos. Both are small and unevenly shaped and may be former asteroids. Fascinatingly, Phobos orbits Mars at only about 5,500 miles away from its center, the nearest any moon orbits its parent planet. In fact, if a person were to stand on Phobos and faces to Mars, Mars would look approximately 6,400 times bigger than the full moon appears from Earth – taking up almost a quarter of the celestial hemisphere. Because Phobos has a mainly low orbit, scientists believe that it would eventually crash into Mars, or break up into pieces, probably forming rings around the planet. According to facts of mercury for kids, the planet Mercury is the first smallest planet and after Mercury, planet Mercury is the second smallest planet in the Solar system.





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