Difference between revisions of "Mars"

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-'''Mars''' is the third planet from the [[Sun]], after [[Mercury]] and [[Venus]]. It is called "The Red Planet" because it looks red from Earth. It can often be seen low in the night sky at evening.
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-Mars was known to the antiquities; the Romans even named one of their gods &mdash; [[Ares|Mars, the god of war]] &mdash; after it. The Romans also knew about Jupiter and Saturn, but it was not until the 17th century that [[William Herschel]] discovered [[Uranus]], and [[Neptune]] and [[Pluto]] took even longer.
-Mars has two moons:  Phobos and Deimos.  Based on observation of its orbit and composition, scientists believe that Phobos is hollow.
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