Test your knowledge on the moons of Mars with this quiz and worksheet combo. Topics include the way the two moons got their name and whether or not a spaceship has landed on them. Quiz & Worksheet Goals The following key points will be addressed: ...
For comparison,Earth's coreis about 4,400 miles (7,100 km) wide — bigger than Mars itself — and its mantle is roughly 1,800 miles (2,900 km) thick. Earth has two kinds of crust, continental and oceanic, whose average thicknesses are about 25 miles (40 km) and 5 miles (8 km)...
“The big surprise is the prevalence of these minerals. Ten years ago, planetary scientists knew of around 1000 outcrops on Mars. This made them interesting as geological oddities. However, the new map has reversed the situation, revealing hundreds of thousands of such areas in the oldest ...
a little more than a third of their weight on Earth’s surface. Mars has only 28 percent of the surface area of Earth, but, because more than two-thirds of Earth is covered by water, the land areas of the two planets are comparable. For additional orbital and physical data,seethetable...
The dusty red planet has fascinated us for centuries. Even as we learn more, its mysteries keep us in suspense.
Recent documented earthquakes beneath Mauna Kea share at least one common characteristic with the Cerberus Fossae region marsquakes detected here – they are rich in low-frequency content. This has been found for many other dormant Earth volcanoes in the lower crust and upper mantle50, though this...
Buzz Aldrin. He walked on the Moon. He also has ideas about how to get humans to Mars. We talked about one of those ideas earlier this month, and now we’re going to talk about another. What if, rather than going straight down to the surface of Mars, we first set up a little ba...
The Perseverance rover will scour a dried-out crater lake where scientists believe ancient life-forms could have left their marks in the rocks.
That means that these unusual six-sol weeks will contain only four work sols, and not many people are going to object to that! It has been pointed out, however, that this system guarantees the Martian equivalent of Friday the 13th every month. Think of this as a plus, as it will ...
But Kepler, while trying to untangle the anagram, came to a different solution. Believing that Galileo’s latest discovery involved Mars, not Saturn, Kepler’s solution read “Salue umbistineum geminatum Martia proles,” meaning Mars has two moons. (The ambiguity of Latin V’s and U’s did...