Science experience

Mars

Hi, everyone. This is The Science Fairy again, saying we are going to skip Earth. We are going to do a lot about Earth later, but right know we are going to learn about Mars. Lets go!!

Before we can learn about the planet Mars we are going to learn how did it get the name Mars. Mars is a Roman God. He is the God of War. His equipment is a spear and a shield. He loved being in the highest position of the roman religion.

The people honored him by:

Dancing in armor
Sacrificing animals.

Here's a great picture of him!

OK, now we are going to learn about the planet Mars. You are probably wondering why it is called a red planet. Well, I have an answer for you. It is a red planet because the planet is really hot and dry like a desert. The reason why it is dry is because it had a magnetic field, but the sun blasted Mars and it broke. The sun blasted it one more time and it became as dry as a rock.

OK, remember how the first two planets don't have moons? This one does. The moons are: Phobos and Deimos.We are going to talk about Phobos. Phobos has the record of being the closest moon to its planet in the whole solar system. In 40 million years Phobos will crash right into Mars. Its rotation takes 319 earth days. Next is Deimos. Deimos is a highly irregularly planet. The two largest craters are Swift and Voltaire.

Now here's the question. Does Mars really have water? Well scientists think there was water on Mars because there are canals. Canals are areas that look like oceans and rivers. there is a rock thhat look like a face. when a rover it wasn't a face at all.

Now we are going to see how similar Mars and Earth are.

Their surface
They both have volcanoes
And they have deserts

There is a rover named Curiosity. The scientist built it so it could stay on Mars for 12 months and gather enough evidence that there were living things on Mars. It takes pictures of anything that looks like life. After 12 months it didn't find any life.