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May 20, 2024 · March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 277 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit] Pre-1600 [ edit] 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. [1]
1 day ago · The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet 's proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no proof of past or present life has been found on Mars.
5 days ago · The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a large increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and habitability potential.
2 days ago · Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun and the seventh in size and mass. It is a periodically conspicuous reddish object in the night sky. There are intriguing clues that billions of years ago Mars was even more Earth-like than today.
- How far is Mars from Earth?Mars is less than 56 million km (35 million miles) from Earth at its closest approach, but it recedes to almost 400 million km (250 million miles)...
- What is the size of Mars?Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, only larger than Mercury and slightly more than half the size of Earth. It has an equatoria...
- What do Mars and Earth have in common?Mars is similar to Earth in many ways. Like Earth, it has clouds, winds, a roughly 24-hour day, seasonal weather patterns, polar ice caps, volcanoe...
- What is the temperature on Mars?The characteristic temperature on Mars in the lower atmosphere is about 200 kelvins (K; −100 °F, −70 °C), which is generally colder than the averag...
- When did Viking 1 and Viking 2 land on Mars?The Viking landers are two robotic U.S. spacecraft launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the study of the planet...
- Should humans colonize space on Mars?Space colonization, on Mars or elsewhere, is widely debated. Some argue humans have a moral duty to save our species from extinction, and space col...
May 6, 2024 · Mars is a terrestrial planet. It is small and rocky. Mars has a thin atmosphere. Mars has an active atmosphere, but the surface of the planet is not active. Its volcanoes are dead. Time on Mars. One day on Mars lasts 24.6 hours. It is just a little longer than a day on Earth. One year on Mars is 687 Earth days.
May 16, 2024 · ESA’s (European Space Agency) Exobiology on Mars program (ExoMars program) is comprised of two missions: the first, the Trace Gas Orbiter, launched in 2016 while the second, carrying the Rosalind Franklin rover, is scheduled to launch in 2028. Together they will address the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. Type. Missions. Target.
May 7, 2024 · The weather and climate of Mars are controlled by the coupled seasonal cycles of CO2, dust, and water and their interactions with atmospheric circulations on a range of spatial and temporal scales. These topics are the foci of our group’s current Mars investigations.
