Records of a planet Mars

Knowingly Mars name "the Red Planet"

Mars – a planet of terrestrial group, the fourth if to consider from the Sun and taking the seventh place on the to the sizes in our solar system. The red planet (and so name Mars thanking oksidu gland which gives its surfaces a reddish shade) is known to us for a long time and serves as perhaps "favourite" object of science fiction writers, directors of sci-fi movies and other creative persons who are fond of "space" products. But Mars is interesting not only and not how many to these. The curious facts about the Red planet are more low listed some:

1. On Mars there is an Olympus – the biggest volcano and the greatest mountain in Solar system. Its height equals to 25 kilometres in relation to the average level of a planet and 27 kilometres concerning the mountain basis. The area occupied with the Olympus, reaches the diameter approximately 550 kilometres. We remind that the highest point of the Earth – the Everest – does not reach and 9 kilometres.

2. The period of rotation of a planet Mars is almost equal to the period of rotation of the Earth – 24 hours of 37 minutes of 22,7 seconds. And here Martian year lasts 668,6 sol (so Martian solar days are called) or 687 days of mother Earth.

3. On Mars Mariner-9 ″ the biggest in Solar system a canyon has been opened in 1971 the space vehicle “. Depth of this canyon reaches 7-10 km, the maximum width – 600 km, and the general extent – approximately 4500 km. Thus, the valley of Marinera could occupy with itself all territory of the United States of America, from Silent to Atlantic oceans.

Anyhow, Mars always involved minds of mankind, and at all with the records. After all Mars – the planet most accessible to us, and having studied it, we can understand is better structure and space essence, questions of an origin of life and we become a bit closer to the general understanding of the nature of things.