Insight Lander, a NASA researched mission for a detailed study of Mars, has successfully reached Mars surface on Monday. For a detailed study on Mars, NASA had left the search mission for about seven months before (on 5 May of this year).
After covering a distance of 30 million miles (458 million kilometers), Insight landed on the flat ground on Monday in a flat ground named Elysium Planitia. This place is near the equator of this red planet and is like a sheet made from lava. The purpose of Insight is to investigate the hidden secret within the land of Mars and gather more information. From Mars, Insight has sent a signal on earth that it is ready to start the work. It has spread its solar panel to get sunlight and is charging itself. The following are listed some mars facts and mars information.
10 Interesting Facts about Mars:
- Speaking of planets in our solar system, Mars is about 14.2 million miles from the Sun. Earth is third in the solar system after which Mars is at number four. Earth is 9.3 million miles from the sun.
- Mars is almost half its size compared to Earth. Where the diameter of the earth is 7,926 miles, the diameter of Mars is 4,220 miles. the weight is equal to one-tenth of Mars-Earth.
- Mars completes the entire life cycle of 687 days. On this basis, Mars takes double time to circumambulate Sun and it is 687 days old.
- One day on Mars (called Solar Day) is 24 hours and 37 minutes.
- The cold, dusty sandstorm, and then the tornado-all compared to the earth, is all over Mars. It is believed that the geography of Mars is very good for life. In summer the temperature is around 30 degrees Celsius and in winter it drops from zero to 140 degrees Celsius.
- Like earth, there are four seasons in the year of Mars: autumn, summer, autumn, and winter. Compared to Earth, every season in Mars remains almost twice as long.
- Because of the separation of gravitational power on earth and Mars, a person with a weight of 100 pounds will weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
- Mars has two moons - Phobos whose diameter is 13.8 miles and Deimos, whose diameter is 7.8 miles.
- Both Mars and earth are made up of four layers. The crust that is made of ferrous basalt stones is the first crust. The second metal is made of silicate stones. The third and fourth are the outer core and the internal core. It is believed that they can be made of iron and nickel like the core of the Earth. But this core is in the shape of solid metal or it is full of fluid, yet there is no confirmation about it.
- The atmosphere of Mars has 96% carbon dioxide, 1.93% argon, 0.14% oxygen, and 2% nitrogen. also, carbon monoxide marks have been found in the environment.
