Hi everyone,
I decided to take you guys out of our world and tell you something amazing. My blog will entertain you with some incredible information about the Red Planet (Mars). I am sure you will not get bored reading this blog. You might have been listening about Mars or other planets but I tried to gather some different points that you probably haven't heard of.
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Besides Earth, Mars is probably the only planet on which humans have done a lot of researches and a number of Space Probes have been sent towards Mars because we hope that if life may exist in the Solar System besides Earth, then it is possible merely on this planet (Mars).
In addition to Governments, private institutions have also started planning to settle human populations on Mars and it seems that the first human habitation on Mars will come into existence during the twenty-first century. Now let me tell you who discovered The Mars.
Who discovered the Mars?
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No one actually knows who discovered Mars because Mars can be always seen and recognized by its red color in the sky. Hence its name in ancient times was the 'Red Star', Although it is a planet. It was also considered as a symbol of war and wrath.
Your weight on Mars
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It is often said that there are many similarities between Earth and Mars but Mars is very different from our planet Earth. In this regard, the first difference between Earth and Mars is the difference of Mass and Gravity. On the surface, Mars's gravity is too weak than Earth. Mars is 62 percent weaker than Earth. Let me ease it with an example: If your weight is 174 pounds on Earth then you will be just 66 pounds on Mars. I think Mars is suitable for girls :-P
Carbon dioxide
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First, the atmosphere of Mars is much lighter than Earth and second, The Carbon dioxide on Mars, is a bit more than 98 percent. It is to be clear that the atmosphere of Earth contains seventy-eight percent Nitrogen, less than it twenty-one percent Oxygen and contains very small amounts of various gasses in which Carbon dioxide is formed around 0.04% (400 PPM). In this regard, we may say that nearly all of the atmosphere of Mars consists of only one gas which is Carbon dioxide.
The largest mountain in the Solar System
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If I talk about the largest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest will come in your mind. But the dead Volcano on Mars 'Olympus Mons' is the largest mountain discovered so far in the Solar System. Its height is about 22 kilometers and it has a diameter of 600 kilometers. If we compare to the Earth, we will get to know that the area of Olympus Mons is larger than central France (Mainland France). Some experts suspect that perhaps the Olympus Mons is an active Volcano.
Caira's namesake
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Another name of Mars in Arabic is "النجم القاہر " (Al-Najm Al-Qahir) which means The Conquering Star. The country of beautiful Pyramids and River Nile. Yes, I'm talking about Egypt. Egypt has some kind of a relation with Mars because one of its cities was named with the name of Mars. It is said that Mars was rising at the same time when the Egyptian city Cairo was founded during the reign of Fatimid. Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. At that time Mars was so apparent and after seeing it, the new city was named after the traditional name of Mars ’’القاہرہ‘ " (Al-Qahirah).
A day and a year of Mars
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It will be read with interest that a day of Mars is forty minutes longer than the day of Earth which lasts for 24 hours that means a day on Mars lasts for 24 hours and 40 minutes. A day of Mars is called "Solar Day" and also called "SOL" precisely. However, 1 Mars Year lasts for 687 days on Earth that means one year, ten months, twenty-two days on Earth. The reason is that Mars orbit around the Sun is much greater than Earth that is why it takes that time to complete an orbit.
Closest to Earth
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The distance of Mars from Earth is approximately 7 Crore and 7.8 million kilometers. But in 2003, the time came when the shortest distance between Mars and Earth in 60-years history was 5 Crore and 6 million kilometers. NASA says that 2287 years later, Mars will come so close to Earth again.
Ice on Mars
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Comparing to Earth, It is a much colder planet where the night temperature is too much lower than the freezing point. At first, it was considered that the white caps on the poles of Mars are actually composed of frozen Carbon dioxide (dry ice) but recent research has revealed that there is the same frozen ice as is found on Earth. There was also ice age on Mars that ended only 4 million years ago from today. it is to be clear the end of the last ice age on Earth was about 10 thousand years ago.
Existence of life on Mars
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People have been thinking for more than a century whether the life exists on Mars or not. After the invention of the telescope, instead of dwindling down, the mysteries of Mars' kept on increasing. Sometimes the concept of irrigation came up on Mars, sometimes human existence began to appear because Human hoped somewhere that there is a life does exist like us. But subsequent researches proved that life does not exist on Mars. However, it has been estimated in the 20-year-old observations that perhaps millions or billions of years ago life used to exist on Mars. A suspicion began to emerge in the light of the information gathered by the Mars Space Missions sent in the end of the first decade of this century, in which the planet looks like the same as our Earth that used to look 3.8 billion years ago. New researches reinforced the concept that the Red Planet's atmosphere millions of years ago was quite dense and there were also lakes and seas.
If these all things were there, it means the life would have appeared on this planet, at the moment when the first signs of life began to born on Earth. Anyhow, the final confirmation of this concept is yet to be announced.
Water on Mars
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The chances are low that there is a life on Mars, but the concept is not in impossibilities.
The availability of water in liquid form is compulsory in any place for the life. In September 2015, Astronomers found such evidence on Mars which helped in evaluating that there may be Salt Water flowing in summers. Although, The amount of water is much less visible. However, The likelihoods of the presence of water on Mars are quite high.
Fifteen years ago NASA discovered the marks on the surface of Mars which indicate the routes where water had been flowing. But the temperature of Mars is too low as the concept was rejected fifteen years ago that the marks were made of water flow. Scientist found evidence that salts included in the cracks and marks of the flowing water on the surface of Mars. This observation is quite important because salt can melt ice after that the ice can flow on the surface as water. But like many other things This research is also awaiting the final confirmation.
The skilled natives will build new settlements on the planet Mars
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As far as technology is concerned, humans do have powerful Rockets and Spacecraft which are able to reach on Mars in the period ranging from a few months to a few years. However, there is merely a fraction of an inch remaining to enable this technology for humanitarian access on Mars. But the good news is that as well as NASA, China, and Russia the private organizations has also accelerated their preparations to send a manned flight to Mars as soon as possible. Considering all these things, the experts say that human will reach on Mars in 2030.
"The latest research of NASA"
I had almost completed my blog but before submitting it for review I read a news that NASA discovered a new Solar System consists of seven planets so I couldn't help myself to share with you guys. The seven planets in this Solar System are circulating around a star that is much smaller than the Sun.
There are at least three of the seven planets on which the favorable conditions for the evolution of life may exist. Google also created a Doodle of these planets when NASA announced the discovery of seven earth-size planets. Want to get more information about this Latest Research through? here is the link ====> Seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered.
Thanks for reading!
