Mars
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Mars is a cold desert world. It is half the diameter of Earth and has the same amount of dry land. Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface. There are signs of ancient floods on Mars, but evidence for water now exists mainly in icy soil and thin clouds. -[NASA]
Changing Data
- Rises:
- 04:24:59
- Sets:
- 16:11:28
- Apparent Magnitude:
- 1.1
- Illumination:
- 94%
- Size (")
- 4.7
- Distance in light minutes:
- 16.6
- Distance in miles:
- 185,539,952
- Distance in AU:
- 1.99600
- Constellation:
- Aquarius
Orbital Data
- Rotational Period:
- 1.026
- Orbital Period:
- 1.8808476
- Perihelion:
- 2.067 * 108 km
- Aphelion:
- 2.492 * 108 km
- Epoch:
- 1998.0000
- Inclination:
- 1.85°
- Semi-Major Axis:
- 2.279 * 108 km
- Orbit Circumference:
- 1.429 * 109 km
- Eccentricity:
- 0.0933941
- Ascending Node:
- 49.540°
- Axial Tilt:
- 25.2°
- Albedo:
- 15%
- Color BV:
- 1.36
- Color UV:
- 0.58
- Equatorial Diameter:
- 6.779 * 103 km
- Equatorial Circumference:
- 4.269 * 104 km
- Surface Area:
- 1.444 * 108 km2
- Surface Gravity:
- 3.71 m/s2
- Surface Temperature:
- -87 - -5
- Mass:
- 6.417 * 1023 kg
- Volume:
- 1.63116 * 1011 km3
- Density:
- 3.934 g/cm3
- Absolute Magnitude:
- -1.52