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= Mars =



===** Mars is fourth from the Sun and is 34 million miles from Earth. Mars atmosphere consists of 95.32% Carbon Dioxide, 2.7 Nitrogen, 0.13 Oxygen, 0.07 Carbon Monoxide, 0.03 Water Vapor, and Trace amounts of Neon, Krypton, Xenon, Ozone, and Methane. Mars weighs 1,415,037,029,833,630,027,874,304 pounds and Mars has 2 moons called Phobos and Deimos, they are proved to be asteroids that were captured by Mars gravitational pull and it has no rings. It takes 687 days or 1.8808476 years to go around the Sun and it takes 24 hours and 37 minutes for a day to go by. **===

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=== ** Mars was a major Roman deity second only to Jupiter in the Roman pantheon. **** He began as a protector of agriculture but later became the god of war, **** honored throughout the realm of the ** conquering Romans. The Romans admired Greek culture and absorbed Greek deities into their own. ** They **** came to identify their own war god, Mars, with the Greek war god, Ares, but **** Mars was a more dignified and popular figure. According to legend, Juno, **** the queen of the gods, gave birth to Mars after being touched by a magic plant. **** He was originally associated with vegetation and fertility. As the Romans **** became increasingly warlike, Mars gradually became the God of War. ** ===

** Sputnik 22: Flyby/Was to flyby Mars, but it broke into pieces right after launch. Pieces remained in Earth orbit for a few days before falling back through Earth's atmosphere. **
===** Sputnik 24: Lander/Mars 1962B was designed to land on Mars. The spacecraft and booster system designed to transfer Mars 1962B to Mars trajectory broke up during that transfer. Pieces fell through the Earth's atmosphere in January 1963. **===