Come and visit MARS!. Come and visit Mars, you can have a lot of fun We’re right next to Earth – we’re the fourth planet from the Sun.

Come and visit MARS!

Come and visit Mars, you can have a lot of funWe’re right next to Earth – we’re the fourth planet from the Sun

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Earth MarsAlthough we’re half as large as Earth, we offer quite a lot

Huge mountains, craters, rifts and storms – Much larger than Earth’s got

Olympus Mons, a huge volcano,Visit it of course –Three times as high as Everest,Wide as Pittsburgh to New York

Happy FaceCrater

Bring a coat and bring a hat …Our temperature gets rather low

… minus 200 degrees!

Our orbit is eccentric with our thin atmosphere

Which you’ll enjoy 687 days per Martian year

Just as a note of caution – it’s not a big to-doThere’s hardly any oxygen; it’s mostly CO2

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There’s also not much pressure so your body may explode WEAR THE PROPER CLOTHES!

(aerial view of Martian rift)

Phobos and Deimos – two very lovely moons!

We hope you come to visit … soon!

Mercury Venus Earth Mars

The Terrestrial Planets

We see you’ve sent ahead some things – Come pick them up someday

Come and visit Mars, you can have a lot of funWe’re right next to Earth – we’re the fourth planet from the Sun

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