What are some mind-blowing facts about the planet Mars?

 Mars is as mysterious as it gets.

• The planet is for the most part orange.

The surface of Mars has an orange-reddish color because its soil has iron oxide or rust particles in it.

• The Gravity is not strong enough to hold the oxygen atom close to the ground like earth. Mars, is less than half Earth’s size and around one-tenth Earth’s mass. Less mass means less gravitational pull.
• It has a Valley scratch on it’s surface that is 4 miles deep. Deeper than any ground Valley on earth. This is call the Valles Marineris. If on Earth it would be longer than the entire United States

• Mars is also home to the largest mountain in the solar system. Olympus Mons is a volcano that has a height of over 21.9 kilometers (13.6 miles or 72,000 feet). It is defined by a massive cliff many kilometers (several miles) tall. At this location, it is nearly 7 kilometers (7 miles or 23,000 feet) tall. It is so big it is easy to see from space.

• Not everything is orange on Mars. It has stunningly gorgeous blue sand dunes. This is actually a color enhance photo of an area of mars. The actual color is more bland, however there are distinct differences in the sand which helps to allow the coloration. It is not orange.

• High-Altitude Water Acts as an Atmospheric Escape Route for Martian Hydrogen. The possible causes are Mars’ elliptical orbit causes the intensity of the sunlight reaching Mars to vary by 40 percent during a Martian year. Seasonal effects that controls how much water vapor is present in the lower atmosphere, as well as variations in how much water makes it into the upper atmosphere. The 11-year cycle of the sun’s activity is another likely factor.

• A sand storm on Mars can engulf the entire planet

More Facts:

• Mars has two moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is much larger than Deimos, however both are small, which is the why they are not spherical in shape. Phobos has a diameter of 22.2 km (13.8 mi) and a mass of 1.08×1016 kg, while Deimos measures 12.6 km (7.8 mi) across, with a mass of 2.0×1015 kg

• While the earth’s day length is a average close to 24 hours, March 4th is (24 hours, 0 minutes, 0.0003935 seconds), the average length of a day on Mars is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds. What is mind blowing about this is when man goes to space their body clock changes. When not exposed to light, mans body clock extends beyond 24 hours and closer to the Martian day.
• Mars has methane in the atmosphere and scientist does not know where it came from.
• The tilt of Mars has a very similar tilt to Earth’s 23 degree tilt. Mars tilt is 25 degrees.

What are some less known facts about Mars?

 Here are a few less known facts about Mars:

• It can get pretty warm on the surface of Mars, up to 20°C (68°F) during the summer.
• The polar caps of Mars consist of carbondioxide (dry ice).

• Mars has the largest confirmed impact crater in the Solar System, with a size of 3,300 km (half the planet’s diameter). Utopia Planitia

Utopia Planitia is in the upper right.

• There are tornados on Mars (more precise: dust devils), and they can get very large, reaching heights of several kilometers. But because the atmosphere of Mars is very thin, you could stand inside such a tornado and would not be blown away (you could barely feel the wind).

• Mars has volcanoes, including the largest volcano in the Solar System Olympus Mons. But its slope is so shallow that you could not see to the bottom if you stood at its top, due to the curvature of the planet.

• Few people know that Olympus Mons is not only very high, but also almost as large as France.

• Mars once had a much warmer climate, with a magnetic field, a denser atmosphere and liquid water on the surface (possibly harbouring life). When it lost its magnetic field, solar wind stripped away the atmosphere, and without the atmosphere, liquid water could no longer exist on the surface.

• You could see the Earth and the Moon from the surface of Mars with your naked eye.

• Mars has clouds, and dunes (both of which are moving)

• And finally: Mars is the only known planet inhabited solely by robots.

There is still a large gap between Mars and Jupiter. Could there be a possibility that a new planet will be discovered there?

 No. First of all there’s already something there called the “Asteroid belt”:

Secondly there’s not enough material there to form a planet.

And lastly if there was something there we’d have discovered it by now. That is after all how we located Neptune.

There’s planets we can see with the naked eye namely Mercury, Venus, Earth as we’re standing on it, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Uranus is a special case as it’s only visible when at opposition. In other words when we’re at the closest point in our orbit to it and it’s on the same side of the Sun as us. This only occurs once a year. But we “discovered” it in the 18th century and can see it with telescopes.

But as they looked at it they noticed that it wasn’t exactly in the right spot. It was slightly off. We had learned from Newton that gravity affects other objects so that must mean something big was farther away. They did the calculations, worked out it’s location and about 70 years later we discovered Neptune.

Mars and Jupiter are much closer. If there was a planet out there we’d have seen it by now. And if not we’d have detected it through it’s gravity affecting either Mars or some of the asteroids in the belt.

So no. There’s no planet out there between Mars and Jupiter.