Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than
only Mercury. In English, Mars carries the name of the Roman god of war and is often referred to as the Mars
"Red Planet".[17][18] The latter refers to the effect of the iron oxide prevalent on Mars's surface, which gives
it a reddish appearance (as shown), that is distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked
eye.[19] Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, with surface features reminiscent of the impact
craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth.

The days and seasons are comparable to those of Earth, because the rotational period as well as the tilt of the
rotational axis relative to the ecliptic plane are similar. Mars is the site of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano
and highest known mountain on any planet in the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, one of the largest
canyons in the Solar System. The smooth Borealis basin in the Northern Hemisphere covers 40% of the
planet and may be a giant impact feature.[20][21] Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small
and irregularly shaped. These may be captured asteroids, similar to 5261 Eureka, a Mars trojan.[22][23]

Mars has been explored by several uncrewed spacecraft. Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to visit Mars; Pictured in natural color in 2007[a]
launched by NASA on 28 November 1964, it made its closest approach to the planet on 15 July 1965. Designations
Mariner 4 detected the weak Martian radiation belt, measured at about 0.1% that of Earth, and captured the
Pronunciation /ˈmɑːrz/ ( listen)
first images of another planet from deep space.[24] The Soviet Mars 3 mission included a lander, which
achieved a soft landing in December 1971; however, contact was lost seconds after touchdown.[25] On 20 Adjectives Martian /ˈmɑːrʃən/
July 1976, Viking 1 performed the first successful landing on the Martian surface.[26] On 4 July 1997, the Orbital characteristics[5]
Mars Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars and on 5 July released its rover, Sojourner, the first robotic rover
Epoch J2000
to operate on Mars.[27] The Mars Express orbiter, the first European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft to visit
Mars, arrived in orbit on 25 December 2003.[28] In January 2004, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, named Aphelion 249 200 000 km
Spirit and Opportunity, both landed on Mars; Spirit operated until 22 March 2010 and Opportunity lasted (154 800 000 mi; 1.666 AU)
until 10 June 2018.[29] NASA landed its Curiosity rover on August 6, 2012, as a part of its Mars Science Perihelion 206 700 000 km
Laboratory (MSL) mission to investigate Martian climate and geology.[30] On 24 September 2014, the Indian (128 400 000 mi; 1.382 AU)
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) became the fourth space agency to visit Mars when its maiden
interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft, arrived in orbit.[31] The United Arab Emirates Semi-major axis 227 939 200 km
became the fifth to successfully undertake a mission to Mars, having inserted an orbiter into the Martian (141 634 900 mi;
atmosphere on 9 February 2021.[32] China National Space Administration (CNSA)'s Tianwen-1 spacecraft 1.523 679 AU)
arrived in Martian orbit on 10 February 2021.[33] NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter Eccentricity 0.0934
successfully landed on Mars on 18 February 2021.[34] Ingenuity successfully completed the first powered
controlled flight by an aircraft on any planet besides Earth on 19 April 2021, taking off vertically, hovering Orbital period 686.980 d
and landing on Mars. [35][36] On 14 May 2021, CNSA's Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover successfully (1.880 85 yr; 668.5991 sols)[1]

landed on Mars.[37] Zhurong rover was successfully deployed on 22 May 2021, which makes China the Synodic period 779.96 d
second country to successfully deploy a rover on Mars, after the United States.[38] (2.1354 yr)

There are investigations assessing the past habitability of Mars, as well as the possibility of extant life. Average orbital 24.007 km/s
speed
Astrobiology missions are planned, such as the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin (86 430 km/h; 53 700 mph)
rover.[39][40][41][42] Liquid water on the surface of Mars cannot exist due to low atmospheric pressure, which Mean anomaly 19.412°[2]
is less than 1% of the atmospheric pressure on Earth, except at the lowest elevations for short
Inclination 1.850° to ecliptic;
periods.[43][44][45] The two polar ice caps appear to be made largely of water.[46][47] The volume of water
ice in the south polar ice cap, if melted, would be sufficient to cover the planetary surface to a depth of 11 5.65° the Sun's equator;
metres (36 ft).[48] In November 2016, NASA reported finding a large amount of underground ice in the 1.63° to invariable plane[3]
Utopia Planitia region. The volume of water detected has been estimated to be equivalent to the volume of
Longitude of 49.558°
water in Lake Superior.[49][50][51]
ascending node
Mars can easily be seen from Earth with the naked eye, as can its reddish coloring. Its apparent magnitude Time of 2022-Jun-21[4]
reaches −2.94, which is surpassed only by Venus, the Moon and the Sun.[13] Optical ground-based perihelion
telescopes are typically limited to resolving features about 300 kilometres (190 mi) across when Earth and Argument of 286.502°
Mars are closest because of Earth's atmosphere.[52] perihelion
Satellites 2
Physical characteristics
Contents Mean radius 3 389.5 ± 0.2 km[b] [6]
(2 106.1 ± 0.1 mi)
Nomenclature
Physical characteristics Equatorial 3 396.2 ± 0.1 km[b] [6]
radius (2 110.3 ± 0.1 mi; 0.533
Internal structure
Surface geology Earths)

Soil Polar radius 3 376.2 ± 0.1 km[b] [6]

Hydrology (2 097.9 ± 0.1 mi; 0.531
Polar caps Earths)
Geography and naming of surface features Flattening 0.005 89 ± 0.000 15
Map of quadrangles
Surface area 144 798 500 km2[7]
Impact topography
(55 907 000 sq mi; 0.284
Volcanoes
Earths)
Tectonic sites
Volume 1.6318 × 1011 km3[8]
 Holes (0.151 Earths)

Atmosphere Mass 6.4171 × 1023 kg[9]

Methane (0.107 Earths)
Aurora Mean density 3.9335 g/cm3[8]
Climate (0.1421 lb/cu in)
Orbit and rotation Surface gravity 3.720 76 m/s2[10]
Habitability and search for life (12.2072 ft/s2 ; 0.3794 g)

Moons Moment of 0.3644 ± 0.0005[9]

inertia factor
Exploration
Future Escape velocity 5.027 km/s
(18 100 km/h; 11 250 mph)
Astronomy on Mars
Rotation period 1.027 491 25 d[11]
Viewing
24h 39m 36s (synodic;
Closest approaches
solar day)
Relative
Absolute, around the present time Sidereal 1.025 957 d
rotation period 24h 37m 22.7s[8]
Historical observations
Equatorial 241.17 m/s
Ancient and medieval observations rotation velocity (868.22 km/h; 539.49 mph)
Martian "canals"
Spacecraft visitation Axial tilt 25.19° to its orbital
plane[1]
In culture
Intelligent "Martians" North pole 317.681 43°
right ascension 21h 10m 44s
Interactive Mars map
North pole 52.886 50°
See also declination
Notes Albedo 0.170 geometric[12]
References 0.25 Bond[1]
External links Surface temp. min mean max
Images Kelvin 130 K 210 K[1] 308 K
Videos Celsius −143 °C[14] −63 °C 35 °C[15]
Cartographic resources Fahrenheit −226 °F[14] −82 °F 95 °F[15]
Apparent −2.94 to +1.86[13]
magnitude
Nomenclature Angular 3.5–25.1″[1]
diameter
In English, the planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war,[53] an association made because of its red Atmosphere[1][16]
color, which suggests blood.[54] The adjectival form of Latin Mars is Martius,[55] from which the English Surface 0.636 (0.4–0.87) kPa
word Martian derives, used as an adjective or for a putative inhabitant of Mars, and Martial, used as an pressure 0.00628 atm
adjective corresponding to Terrestrial for Earth.[56] In Greek, the planet is known as Ἄρης Arēs, with the
inflectional stem Ἄρε- Are-.[57] That is because of the Greek equivalent to Mars is Ares. From this come Composition by 95.97% carbon dioxide
technical terms such as areology, as well as the (rare) adjective Arean[58] and the star name Antares. volume 1.93% argon
1.89% nitrogen
Mars is also the basis of the name of the month of March (from Latin Martius mēnsis 'month of Mars'),[59] as
well as of Tuesday (Latin dies Martis 'day of Mars'), where the old Anglo-Saxon god Tíw was identified as 0.146% oxygen
the Anglo-Saxon equivalent to Mars by Interpretatio germanica.[60] 0.0557% carbon
monoxide
Due to the global influence of European languages in astronomy, a word like Mars or Marte for the planet is
common around the world, though it may be used alongside older, native words. A number of other 0.0210% water vapor
languages have provided words with international usage. For example: 0.0100% nitrogen oxide
0.00025% neon
Arabic ‫ ﻣﺮﻳﺦ‬mirrīkh – which connotes fire – is used as the (or a) name for the planet in
0.00008% hydrogen
Persian, Urdu, Malay and Swahili,[61] among others
Chinese 星 [Mandarin Huǒxīng] 'fire star' (in Chinese the five classical planets are identified
deuterium oxide
0.00003% krypton
with the five elements) is used in Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese.[62]
0.00001% xenon
India uses the Sanskrit term Mangal derived from the Hindu goddess Mangala.[63]
A long-standing nickname for Mars is the "Red Planet". That is also the planet's name in
Hebrew, ‫ מאדים‬ma'adim, which is derived from ‫ אדום‬adom, meaning 'red'.[64]
The archaic Latin form Māvors (/ˈmeɪvɔːrz/) is seen, but only very rarely, in English, though the adjectives Mavortial and Mavortian mean
'martial' in the military rather than planetary sense.[65]

Physical characteristics
Mars is approximately half the diameter of Earth, with a surface area only slightly less than the total area of Earth's dry land.[1] Mars is less dense than Earth,
having about 15% of Earth's volume and 11% of Earth's mass, resulting in about 38% of Earth's surface gravity. The red-orange appearance of the Martian
surface is caused by iron(III) oxide, or rust.[66] It can look like butterscotch;[67] other common surface colors include golden, brown, tan, and greenish,
depending on the minerals present.[67]
 Comparison: Earth and Mars Play media Play media
Animation (00:40) showing major Video (01:28) showing how three
features of Mars NASA orbiters mapped the
gravity field of Mars

Internal structure

Like Earth, Mars has differentiated into a dense metallic core overlaid by less dense materials.[68] Current models of its interior imply a core consisting
primarily of iron and nickel with about 16–17% sulfur.[69] This iron(II) sulfide core is thought to be twice as rich in lighter elements as Earth's.[70] The core is
surrounded by a silicate mantle that formed many of the tectonic and volcanic features on the planet, but it appears to be dormant. Besides silicon and oxygen,
the most abundant elements in the Martian crust are iron, magnesium, aluminium, calcium, and potassium. The average thickness of the planet's crust is about
50 kilometres (31 mi), with a maximum thickness of 125 kilometres (78 mi).[70] Earth's crust averages 40 kilometres (25 mi).

Mars is seismically active, with InSight recording over 450 marsquakes and related events in 2019.[71][72] In 2021 it was reported that based on eleven low-
frequency Marsquakes detected by the InSight lander the core of Mars is indeed liquid and has a radius of about 1830 ± 40 km and a temperature around
1900–2000 K. The Martian core radius is more than half the radius of Mars and about half the size of the Earth's core. This is somewhat larger than models
predicted, suggesting that the core contains some amount of lighter elements like oxygen and hydrogen in addition to the iron–nickel alloy and about 15% of
sulfur.[73][74]

The core of Mars is overlain by the rocky mantle, which, however, does not seem to have a layer analogous to the Earth's lower mantle. The martial mantle
appears to be solid down to the depth of about 500 km, where the low-velocity zone (partially melted asthenosphere) begins.[75] Below the asthenosphere the
velocity of seismic waves starts to grow again and at the depth of about 1050 km there lies the boundary of the transition zone.[74] At the surface of Mars there
lies a crust with the average thickness of about 24–72 km.[76]

Surface geology

Mars is a terrestrial planet whose surface consists of minerals containing silicon and oxygen, metals, and other elements that typically make up rock. The
Martian surface is primarily composed of tholeiitic basalt,[77] although parts are more silica-rich than typical basalt and may be similar to andesitic rocks on
Earth, or silica glass. Regions of low albedo suggest concentrations of plagioclase feldspar, with northern low albedo regions displaying higher than normal
concentrations of sheet silicates and high-silicon glass. Parts of the southern highlands include detectable amounts of high-calcium pyroxenes. Localized
concentrations of hematite and olivine have been found.[78] Much of the surface is deeply covered by finely grained iron(III) oxide dust.[79][80]

Although Mars has no evidence of a structured global magnetic field,[82] observations show that parts of the planet's
crust have been magnetized, suggesting that alternating polarity reversals of its dipole field have occurred in the past.
This paleomagnetism of magnetically susceptible minerals is similar to the alternating bands found on Earth's ocean
floors. One theory, published in 1999 and re-examined in October 2005 (with the help of the Mars Global Surveyor),
is that these bands suggest plate tectonic activity on Mars four billion years ago, before the planetary dynamo ceased to
function and the planet's magnetic field faded.[83]

It is thought that, during the Solar System's formation, Mars was created as the result of a stochastic process of run-
away accretion of material from the protoplanetary disk that orbited the Sun. Mars has many distinctive chemical
features caused by its position in the Solar System. Elements with comparatively low boiling points, such as chlorine,
phosphorus, and sulphur, are much more common on Mars than Earth; these elements were probably pushed outward
by the young Sun's energetic solar wind.[84]

After the formation of the planets, all were subjected to the so-called "Late Heavy Bombardment". About 60% of the
Geologic map of Mars (USGS, surface of Mars shows a record of impacts from that era,[85][86][87] whereas much of the remaining surface is probably
2014)[81] underlain by immense impact basins caused by those events. There is evidence of an enormous impact basin in the
Northern Hemisphere of Mars, spanning 10,600 by 8,500 kilometres (6,600 by 5,300 mi), or roughly four times the
size of the Moon's South Pole – Aitken basin, the largest impact basin yet discovered.[20][21] This theory suggests that
Mars was struck by a Pluto-sized body about four billion years ago. The event, thought to be the cause of the Martian hemispheric dichotomy, created the
smooth Borealis basin that covers 40% of the planet.[88][89]

The geological history of Mars can be split into many periods, but the following are the three primary periods:[91][92]

Noachian period (named after Noachis Terra): Formation of the oldest extant surfaces of Mars, 4.5 to
3.5 billion years ago. Noachian age surfaces are scarred by many large impact craters. The Tharsis
bulge, a volcanic upland, is thought to have formed during this period, with extensive flooding by liquid
water late in the period.
Hesperian period (named after Hesperia Planum): 3.5 to between 3.3 and 2.9 billion years ago. The
Hesperian period is marked by the formation of extensive lava plains.
Amazonian period (named after Amazonis Planitia): between 3.3 and 2.9 billion years ago to the Artist's impression of how Mars may
present. Amazonian regions have few meteorite impact craters but are otherwise quite varied. have looked four billion years ago[90]
Olympus Mons formed during this period, with lava flows elsewhere on Mars.

Geological activity is still taking place on Mars. The Athabasca Valles is home to sheet-like lava flows created about 200 Mya. Water flows in the grabens
called the Cerberus Fossae occurred less than 20 Mya, indicating equally recent volcanic intrusions.[93] On 19 February 2008, images from the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter showed evidence of an avalanche from a 700-metre-high (2,300 ft) cliff.[94]
Soil

The Phoenix lander returned data showing Martian soil to be slightly alkaline and containing elements such as
magnesium, sodium, potassium and chlorine. These nutrients are found in soils on Earth, and they are necessary for
growth of plants.[95] Experiments performed by the lander showed that the Martian soil has a basic pH of 7.7, and
contains 0.6% of the salt perchlorate,[96][97][98][99] concentrations that are toxic to humans.[100][101]

Streaks are common across Mars and new ones appear frequently on steep slopes of craters, troughs, and valleys. The
streaks are dark at first and get lighter with age. The streaks can start in a tiny area, then spread out for hundreds of
metres. They have been seen to follow the edges of boulders and other obstacles in their path. The commonly accepted
theories include that they are dark underlying layers of soil revealed after avalanches of bright dust or dust devils.[102]
Several other explanations have been put forward, including those that involve water or even the growth of
organisms.[103][104]
Exposure of silica-rich dust
uncovered by the Spirit rover
Hydrology

Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars due to low atmospheric pressure, which is less than 1% that of
Earth's,[43] except at the lowest elevations for short periods.[44][45] The two polar ice caps appear to be made largely of water.[46][47] The volume of water ice
in the south polar ice cap, if melted, would be enough to cover the entire surface of the planet with a depth of 11 metres (36 ft).[48] A permafrost mantle
stretches from the pole to latitudes of about 60°.[46] Large quantities of ice are thought to be trapped within the thick cryosphere of Mars. Radar data from Mars
Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show large quantities of ice at both poles (July 2005)[105][106] and at middle latitudes (November
2008).[107] The Phoenix lander directly sampled water ice in shallow Martian soil on 31 July 2008.[108]

Landforms visible on Mars strongly suggest that liquid water has existed on the planet's surface. Huge linear swathes
of scoured ground, known as outflow channels, cut across the surface in about 25 places. These are thought to be a
record of erosion caused by the catastrophic release of water from subsurface aquifers, though some of these structures
have been hypothesized to result from the action of glaciers or lava.[109][110] One of the larger examples, Ma'adim
Vallis, is 700 kilometres (430 mi) long, much greater than the Grand Canyon, with a width of 20 kilometres (12 mi)
and a depth of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in places. It is thought to have been carved by flowing water early in Mars's
history.[111] The youngest of these channels are thought to have formed as recently as only a few million years
ago.[112] Elsewhere, particularly on the oldest areas of the Martian surface, finer-scale, dendritic networks of valleys
are spread across significant proportions of the landscape. Features of these valleys and their distribution strongly
imply that they were carved by runoff resulting from precipitation in early Mars history. Subsurface water flow and
groundwater sapping may play important subsidiary roles in some networks, but precipitation was probably the root
cause of the incision in almost all cases.[113]
Photomicrograph by Opportunity
showing a gray hematite concretion, Along crater and canyon walls, there are thousands of features that appear similar to terrestrial gullies. The gullies tend
nicknamed "blueberries", indicative to be in the highlands of the Southern Hemisphere and to face the Equator; all are poleward of 30° latitude. A number
of the past existence of liquid water. of authors have suggested that their formation process involves liquid water, probably from melting ice,[114][115]
although others have argued for formation mechanisms involving carbon dioxide frost or the movement of dry
dust.[116][117] No partially degraded gullies have formed by weathering and no superimposed impact craters have
been observed, indicating that these are young features, possibly still active.[115] Other geological features, such as deltas and alluvial fans preserved in craters,
are further evidence for warmer, wetter conditions at an interval or intervals in earlier Mars history.[118] Such conditions necessarily require the widespread
presence of crater lakes across a large proportion of the surface, for which there is independent mineralogical, sedimentological and geomorphological
evidence.[119]

Further evidence that liquid water once existed on the surface of Mars comes from the detection of specific minerals
such as hematite and goethite, both of which sometimes form in the presence of water.[122] In 2004, Opportunity
detected the mineral jarosite. This forms only in the presence of acidic water, which demonstrates that water once
existed on Mars.[123] More recent evidence for liquid water comes from the finding of the mineral gypsum on the
surface by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity in December 2011.[124][125] It is estimated that the amount of water in the
upper mantle of Mars, represented by hydroxyl ions contained within the minerals of Mars's geology, is equal to or
greater than that of Earth at 50–300 parts per million of water, which is enough to cover the entire planet to a depth of
200–1,000 metres (660–3,280 ft).[126]

In 2005, radar data revealed the presence of large quantities of water ice at the poles[105] and at mid-latitudes.[107][127] A cross-section of underground water
The Mars rover Spirit sampled chemical compounds containing water molecules in March 2007. ice is exposed at the steep slope
that appears bright blue in this
On 18 March 2013, NASA reported evidence from instruments on the Curiosity rover of mineral hydration, likely enhanced-color view from the
hydrated calcium sulfate, in several rock samples including the broken fragments of "Tintina" rock and "Sutton Inlier" MRO.[120] The scene is about 500
rock as well as in veins and nodules in other rocks like "Knorr" rock and "Wernicke" rock.[128][129][130] Analysis meters wide. The scarp drops about
using the rover's DAN instrument provided evidence of subsurface water, amounting to as much as 4% water content, 128 meters from the level ground.
down to a depth of 60 centimetres (24 in), during the rover's traverse from the Bradbury Landing site to the The ice sheets extend from just
below the surface to a depth of 100
Yellowknife Bay area in the Glenelg terrain.[128] In September 2015, NASA announced that they had found
meters or more.[121]
conclusive evidence of hydrated brine flows on recurring slope lineae, based on spectrometer readings of the darkened
areas of slopes.[131][132][133] These observations provided confirmation of earlier hypotheses based on timing of
formation and their rate of growth, that these dark streaks resulted from water flowing in the very shallow
subsurface.[134] The streaks contain hydrated salts, perchlorates, which have water molecules in their crystal structure.[135] The streaks flow downhill in
Martian summer, when the temperature is above −23° Celsius, and freeze at lower temperatures.[136]

Researchers suspect that much of the low northern plains of the planet were covered with an ocean hundreds of meters deep, though this remains
controversial.[137] In March 2015, scientists stated that such an ocean might have been the size of Earth's Arctic Ocean. This finding was derived from the ratio
of water to deuterium in the modern Martian atmosphere compared to that ratio on Earth. The amount of Martian deuterium is eight times the amount that exists
on Earth, suggesting that ancient Mars had significantly higher levels of water. Results from the Curiosity rover had previously found a high ratio of deuterium
in Gale Crater, though not significantly high enough to suggest the former presence of an ocean. Other
scientists caution that these results have not been confirmed, and point out that Martian climate models have
not yet shown that the planet was warm enough in the past to support bodies of liquid water.[138]

Near the northern polar cap is the 81.4 kilometres (50.6 mi) wide Korolev Crater, where the Mars Express
orbiter found it to be filled with approximately 2,200 cubic kilometres (530 cu mi) of water ice.[139] The
crater floor lies about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) below the rim, and is covered by a 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) deep
central mound of permanent water ice, up to 60 kilometres (37 mi) in diameter.[139][140]

In February 2020, it was found that dark streaks called recurring slope lineae (RSL), which appear
Perspective view of Korolev crater shows 1.9
seasonably, are caused by briny water flowing for a few days annually.[141][142] kilometres (1.2 mi) deep water ice. Image taken
by ESA's Mars Express.
Polar caps

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps. During a pole's winter, it lies in continuous
darkness, chilling the surface and causing the deposition of 25–30% of the atmosphere into
slabs of CO2 ice (dry ice).[144] When the poles are again exposed to sunlight, the frozen
CO2 sublimes. These seasonal actions transport large amounts of dust and water vapor,
giving rise to Earth-like frost and large cirrus clouds. Clouds of water-ice were
photographed by the Opportunity rover in 2004.[145]

The caps at both poles consist primarily (70%) of water ice. Frozen carbon dioxide
accumulates as a comparatively thin layer about one metre thick on the north cap in the North polar early summer South polar midsummer ice cap
northern winter only, whereas the south cap has a permanent dry ice cover about eight water ice cap (1999); a (2000); the south cap has a
metres thick. This permanent dry ice cover at the south pole is peppered by flat floored, seasonal layer of carbon permanent carbon dioxide ice cap
shallow, roughly circular pits, which repeat imaging shows are expanding by meters per dioxide ice forms in winter mixed with water ice.[143]
year; this suggests that the permanent CO2 cover over the south pole water ice is degrading and disappears in summer.
over time.[146] The northern polar cap has a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi)
during the northern Mars summer,[147] and contains about 1.6 million cubic kilometres
(5.7 × 1016 cu ft) of ice, which, if spread evenly on the cap, would be 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) thick.[148] (This compares to a volume of 2.85 million cubic
kilometres (1.01 × 1017 cu ft) for the Greenland ice sheet.) The southern polar cap has a diameter of 350 kilometres (220 mi) and a thickness of 3 kilometres
(1.9 mi).[149] The total volume of ice in the south polar cap plus the adjacent layered deposits has been estimated at 1.6 million cubic km.[150] Both polar caps
show spiral troughs, which recent analysis of SHARAD ice penetrating radar has shown are a result of katabatic winds that spiral due to the Coriolis
Effect.[151][152]

The seasonal frosting of areas near the southern ice cap results in the formation of transparent 1-metre-thick slabs of dry ice above the ground. With the arrival
of spring, sunlight warms the subsurface and pressure from subliming CO2 builds up under a slab, elevating and ultimately rupturing it. This leads to geyser-
like eruptions of CO2 gas mixed with dark basaltic sand or dust. This process is rapid, observed happening in the space of a few days, weeks or months, a rate
of change rather unusual in geology – especially for Mars. The gas rushing underneath a slab to the site of a geyser carves a spiderweb-like pattern of radial
channels under the ice, the process being the inverted equivalent of an erosion network formed by water draining through a single plughole.[153][154][155][156]

Geography and naming of surface features

Although better remembered for mapping the Moon, Johann Heinrich Mädler and Wilhelm Beer were the first
areographers. They began by establishing that most of Mars's surface features were permanent and by more precisely
determining the planet's rotation period. In 1840, Mädler combined ten years of observations and drew the first map of
Mars. Rather than giving names to the various markings, Beer and Mädler simply designated them with letters;
Meridian Bay (Sinus Meridiani) was thus feature "a".[157]

Today, features on Mars are named from a variety of sources. Albedo features are named for classical mythology. A MOLA-based topographic map
Craters larger than 60 km are named for deceased scientists and writers and others who have contributed to the study showing highlands (red and orange)
of Mars. Craters smaller than 60 km are named for towns and villages of the world with populations of less than dominating the Southern Hemisphere
100,000. Large valleys are named for the word "Mars" or "star" in various languages; small valleys are named for of Mars, lowlands (blue) the northern.
rivers.[158] Volcanic plateaus delimit regions of
the northern plains, whereas the
Large albedo features retain many of the older names but are often updated to reflect new knowledge of the nature of highlands are punctuated by several
the features. For example, Nix Olympica (the snows of Olympus) has become Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus).[159] large impact basins.
The surface of Mars as seen from Earth is divided into two kinds of areas, with differing albedo. The paler plains
covered with dust and sand rich in reddish iron oxides were once thought of as Martian "continents" and given names
like Arabia Terra (land of Arabia) or Amazonis Planitia (Amazonian plain). The dark features were thought to be seas,
hence their names Mare Erythraeum, Mare Sirenum and Aurorae Sinus. The largest dark feature seen from Earth is
Syrtis Major Planum.[160] The permanent northern polar ice cap is named Planum Boreum, whereas the southern cap
is called Planum Australe.

Mars's equator is defined by its rotation, but the location of its Prime Meridian was specified, as was Earth's (at
Greenwich), by choice of an arbitrary point; Mädler and Beer selected a line for their first maps of Mars in 1830. After
the spacecraft Mariner 9 provided extensive imagery of Mars in 1972, a small crater (later called Airy-0), located in the
Sinus Meridiani ("Middle Bay" or "Meridian Bay"), was chosen by Merton Davies of the Rand Corporation[161] for These new impact craters on Mars
the definition of 0.0° longitude to coincide with the original selection.[162] occurred sometime between 2008
and 2014, as detected from orbit
Because Mars has no oceans and hence no "sea level", a zero-elevation surface had to be selected as a reference level;
this is called the areoid[163] of Mars, analogous to the terrestrial geoid.[164] Zero altitude was defined by the height at
which there is 610.5 Pa (6.105 mbar) of atmospheric pressure.[165] This pressure corresponds to the triple point of water, and it is about 0.6% of the sea level
surface pressure on Earth (0.006 atm).[166]
Map of quadrangles

For mapping purposes, the United States Geological Survey divides the surface of Mars into thirty cartographic quadrangles, each named for a classical albedo
feature it contains. The quadrangles can be seen and explored via the interactive image map below.

MC-01
Mare Boreum

90°N 0°W

MC-02 MC-03 MC-04 MC-05 MC-06 MC-07

Diacria Arcadia Mare Acidalium Ismenius Lacus Casius Cebrenia

MC-08 MC-09 MC-10 MC-11 MC-12 MC-13 MC-14 MC-15

Amazonis Tharsis Lunae Palus Oxia Palus Arabia Syrtis Major Amenthes Elysium

0°N 180°W 0°N 0°W

MC-16 MC-17 MC-18 MC-19 MC-20 MC-21 MC-22 MC-23
Memnonia Phoenicis Coprates Margaritifer Sabaeus Iapygia Tyrrhenum Aeolis

MC-24 MC-25 MC-26 MC-27 MC-28 MC-29

Phaethontis Thaumasia Argyre Noachis Hellas Eridania

MC-30
Mare Australe

Clickable image of the 30 cartographic quadrangles of Mars, defined by the USGS.[167][168] Quadrangle numbers

(beginning with MC for "Mars Chart")[169] and names link to the corresponding articles. North is at the top; 0°N 180°W is at the
far left on the equator. The map images were taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. ()

Impact topography

The dichotomy of Martian topography is striking: northern plains flattened by lava flows contrast with the southern
highlands, pitted and cratered by ancient impacts. Research in 2008 has presented evidence regarding a theory
proposed in 1980 postulating that, four billion years ago, the Northern Hemisphere of Mars was struck by an object
one-tenth to two-thirds the size of Earth's Moon. If validated, this would make the Northern Hemisphere of Mars the
site of an impact crater 10,600 by 8,500 kilometres (6,600 by 5,300 mi) in size, or roughly the area of Europe, Asia,
and Australia combined, surpassing the South Pole–Aitken basin as the largest impact crater in the Solar
System.[20][21]

Mars is scarred by a number of impact craters: a total of 43,000 craters with a diameter of 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) or
Newly formed impact crater (est
greater have been found.[171] The largest confirmed of these is the Hellas impact basin, a light albedo feature clearly
2016 – 2019). False blue color
visible from Earth.[172] Due to the smaller mass and size of Mars, the probability of an object colliding with the planet
highlights exposed bedrock
is about half that of Earth. Mars is located closer to the asteroid belt, so it has an increased chance of being struck by
materials from that source. Mars is more likely to be struck by short-period comets, i.e., those that lie within the orbit of
Jupiter.[173] In spite of this, there are far fewer craters on Mars compared with
the Moon, because the atmosphere of Mars provides protection against small
meteors and surface modifying processes have erased some craters.

Fresh asteroid impact on Mars at Martian craters can have a morphology that suggests the ground became wet
3.34°N 219.38°E. These before and after the meteor impacted.[174]
after images of the same site were
taken on the Martian afternoons of
27 and 28 March 2012 respectively Volcanoes
(MRO).[170] Bonneville crater and Spirit rover's
The shield volcano Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus) is an extinct volcano in lander
the vast upland region Tharsis, which contains several other large volcanoes.
Olympus Mons is roughly three times the height of Mount Everest, which in comparison stands at just over 8.8
kilometres (5.5 mi).[175] It is either the tallest or second-tallest mountain in the Solar System, depending on how it is
measured, with various sources giving figures ranging from about 21 to 27 kilometres (13 to 17 mi) high.[176][177]

Tectonic sites

The large canyon, Valles Marineris (Latin for "Mariner Valleys", also known
as Agathadaemon in the old canal maps), has a length of 4,000 kilometres
(2,500 mi) and a depth of up to 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). The length of Valles
Marineris is equivalent to the length of Europe and extends across one-fifth
the circumference of Mars. By comparison, the Grand Canyon on Earth is
Valles Marineris (2001 Mars only 446 kilometres (277 mi) long and nearly 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) deep.
Viking 1 image of Olympus Mons.
Odyssey) Valles Marineris was formed due to the swelling of the Tharsis area, which
The volcano and related terrain are
caused the crust in the area of Valles Marineris to collapse. In 2012, it was approximately 550 km (340 mi)
proposed that Valles Marineris is not just a graben, but a plate boundary where across.
150 kilometres (93 mi) of transverse motion has occurred, making Mars a planet with possibly a two-tectonic plate
arrangement.[178][179]
Holes

Images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have revealed seven possible cave entrances on the
flanks of the volcano Arsia Mons.[180] The caves, named after loved ones of their discoverers, are collectively known as the "seven sisters".[181] Cave
entrances measure from 100 to 252 metres (328 to 827 ft) wide and they are estimated to be at least 73 to 96 metres (240 to 315 ft) deep. Because light does not
reach the floor of most of the caves, it is possible that they extend much deeper than these lower estimates and widen below the surface. "Dena" is the only
exception; its floor is visible and was measured to be 130 metres (430 ft) deep. The interiors of these caverns may be protected from micrometeoroids, UV
radiation, solar flares and high energy particles that bombard the planet's surface.[182]

Atmosphere

Mars lost its magnetosphere 4 billion years ago,[183] possibly because of numerous asteroid strikes,[184] so the solar wind
interacts directly with the Martian ionosphere, lowering the atmospheric density by stripping away atoms from the outer layer.
Both Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Express have detected ionised atmospheric particles trailing off into space behind
Mars,[183][185] and this atmospheric loss is being studied by the MAVEN orbiter. Compared to Earth, the atmosphere of Mars
is quite rarefied. Atmospheric pressure on the surface today ranges from a low of 30 Pa (0.0044 psi) on Olympus Mons to
over 1,155 Pa (0.1675 psi) in Hellas Planitia, with a mean pressure at the surface level of 600 Pa (0.087 psi).[186] The highest
atmospheric density on Mars is equal to that found 35 kilometres (22 mi)[187] above Earth's surface. The resulting mean
surface pressure is only 0.6% of that of Earth 101.3 kPa (14.69 psi). The scale height of the atmosphere is about 10.8
kilometres (6.7 mi),[188] which is higher than Earth's, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi), because the surface gravity of Mars is only about
38% of Earth's, an effect offset by both the lower temperature and 50% higher average molecular weight of the atmosphere of
The tenuous atmosphere of
Mars.
Mars visible on the horizon
The atmosphere of Mars consists of about 96% carbon dioxide, 1.93% argon and 1.89% nitrogen along with traces of oxygen
and water.[1][189] The atmosphere is quite dusty, containing particulates about 1.5 µm in diameter which give the Martian sky
a tawny color when seen from the surface.[190] It may take on a pink hue due to iron oxide particles suspended in it.[18]

Methane

Methane has been detected in the Martian atmosphere;[191][192] it occurs in extended plumes, and the profiles imply
that the methane is released from discrete regions. The concentration of methane fluctuates from about 0.24 ppb during
the northern winter to about 0.65 ppb during the summer.[193]

Estimates of its lifetime range from 0.6 to 4 years,[194][195] so its presence indicates that an active source of the gas
must be present. Methane could be produced by non-biological process such as serpentinization involving water,
carbon dioxide, and the mineral olivine, which is known to be common on Mars.[196] Methanogenic microbial life
forms in the subsurface are among possible sources. But even if rover missions determine that microscopic Martian life
is the source of the methane, the life forms likely reside far below the surface, outside of the rover's reach.[197]
Potential sources and sinks of
methane (CH4) on Mars
Aurora

In 1994, the European Space Agency's Mars Express found an ultraviolet glow coming from "magnetic
umbrellas" in the Southern Hemisphere. Mars does not have a global magnetic field which guides
charged particles entering the atmosphere. Mars has multiple umbrella-shaped magnetic fields mainly in
the Southern Hemisphere, which are remnants of a global field that decayed billions of years ago.
Escaping atmosphere on Mars (carbon, oxygen,
In late December 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft detected evidence of widespread auroras in Mars's
and hydrogen) by MAVEN in UV[198]
Northern Hemisphere and descended to approximately 20–30° North latitude of Mars's equator. The
particles causing the aurora penetrated into the Martian atmosphere, creating auroras below 100 km above
the surface, Earth's auroras range from 100 km to 500 km above the surface. Magnetic fields in the solar
wind drape over Mars, into the atmosphere, and the charged particles follow the solar wind magnetic field lines into the atmosphere, causing auroras to occur
outside the magnetic umbrellas.[199]

On 18 March 2015, NASA reported the detection of an aurora that is not fully understood and an unexplained dust cloud in the atmosphere of Mars.[200]

In September 2017, NASA reported radiation levels on the surface of the planet Mars were temporarily doubled, and were associated with an aurora 25 times
brighter than any observed earlier, due to a massive, and unexpected, solar storm in the middle of the month.[201]

Climate

Of all the planets in the Solar System, the seasons of Mars are the most Earth-like, due to the similar tilts of the two planets' rotational axes. The lengths of the
Martian seasons are about twice those of Earth's because Mars's greater distance from the Sun leads to the Martian year being about two Earth years long.
Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about −143 °C (−225 °F) at the winter polar caps[14] to highs of up to 35 °C (95 °F) in equatorial summer.[15]
The wide range in temperatures is due to the thin atmosphere which cannot store much solar heat, the low atmospheric pressure, and the low thermal inertia of
Martian soil.[202] The planet is 1.52 times as far from the Sun as Earth, resulting in just 43% of the amount of sunlight.[203]

If Mars had an Earth-like orbit, its seasons would be similar to Earth's because its axial tilt is similar to Earth's. The comparatively large eccentricity of the
Martian orbit has a significant effect. Mars is near perihelion when it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere and winter in the north, and near aphelion when it
is winter in the Southern Hemisphere and summer in the north. As a result, the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are more extreme and the seasons in the
northern are milder than would otherwise be the case. The summer temperatures in the south can be warmer than the equivalent summer temperatures in the
north by up to 30 °C (54 °F).[204]

Mars has the largest dust storms in the Solar System, reaching speeds of over 160 km/h (100 mph). These can vary from a storm over a small area, to gigantic
storms that cover the entire planet. They tend to occur when Mars is closest to the Sun, and have been shown to increase the global temperature.[205]
 Mars (before/after) global dust storm (July 2018)

Dust storms on Mars

18 November 2012 25 November 2012 6 June 2018[206]

Locations of the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers are noted

Orbit and rotation

Mars's average distance from the Sun is roughly 230 million km (143 million mi), and its orbital period is 687 (Earth)
days. The solar day (or sol) on Mars is only slightly longer than an Earth day: 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244
seconds.[207] A Martian year is equal to 1.8809 Earth years, or 1 year, 320 days, and 18.2 hours.[1]

The axial tilt of Mars is 25.19° relative to its orbital plane, which is similar to the axial tilt of Earth.[1] As a result, Mars
has seasons like Earth, though on Mars they are nearly twice as long because its orbital period is that much longer. In
the present day epoch, the orientation of the north pole of Mars is close to the star Deneb.[16]

Mars has a relatively pronounced orbital eccentricity of about 0.09; of the seven other planets in the Solar System, only
Mercury has a larger orbital eccentricity. It is known that in the past, Mars has had a much more circular orbit. At one
point, 1.35 million Earth years ago, Mars had an eccentricity of roughly 0.002, much less than that of Earth today.[208]
Mars's cycle of eccentricity is 96,000 Earth years compared to Earth's cycle of 100,000 years.[209] Mars has a much
longer cycle of eccentricity, with a period of 2.2 million Earth years, and this overshadows the 96,000-year cycle in the Mars is about 230 million km
eccentricity graphs. For the last 35,000 years, the orbit of Mars has been getting slightly more eccentric because of the (143 million mi) from the Sun; its
gravitational effects of the other planets. The closest distance between Earth and Mars will continue to mildly decrease orbital period is 687 (Earth) days,
depicted in red. Earth's orbit is in
for the next 25,000 years.[210]
blue.

Habitability and search for life

The current understanding of planetary habitability – the ability of a world to develop environmental
conditions favorable to the emergence of life – favors planets that have liquid water on their surface.
Most often this requires the orbit of a planet to lie within the habitable zone, which for the Sun extends
from just beyond Venus to about the semi-major axis of Mars.[211] During perihelion, Mars dips inside
this region, but Mars's thin (low-pressure) atmosphere prevents liquid water from existing over large
regions for extended periods. The past flow of liquid water demonstrates the planet's potential for
habitability. Recent evidence has suggested that any water on the Martian surface may have been too
salty and acidic to support regular terrestrial life.[212]
Viking 1 lander's sampling arm scooped up soil
samples for tests (Chryse Planitia) The lack of a magnetosphere and the extremely thin atmosphere
of Mars are a challenge: the planet has little heat transfer across
its surface, poor insulation against bombardment of the solar
wind and insufficient atmospheric pressure to retain water in a liquid form (water instead sublimes to a gaseous state).
Mars is nearly, or perhaps totally, geologically dead; the end of volcanic activity has apparently stopped the recycling
of chemicals and minerals between the surface and interior of the planet.[214]

In situ investigations have been performed on Mars by the Viking landers, Spirit and Opportunity rovers, Phoenix
lander, and Curiosity rover. Evidence suggests that the planet was once significantly more habitable than it is today, but Detection of impact glass deposits
whether living organisms ever existed there remains unknown. The Viking probes of the mid-1970s carried (green spots) at Alga crater, a
experiments designed to detect microorganisms in Martian soil at their respective landing sites and had positive results, possible site for preserved ancient
life[213]
including a temporary increase of CO2 production on exposure to water and nutrients. This sign of life was later
disputed by scientists, resulting in a continuing debate, with NASA scientist Gilbert Levin asserting that Viking may
have found life. A re-analysis of the Viking data, in light of modern knowledge of extremophile forms of life, has
suggested that the Viking tests were not sophisticated enough to detect these forms of life. The tests could even have killed a (hypothetical) life form.[215] Tests
conducted by the Phoenix Mars lander have shown that the soil has an alkaline pH and it contains magnesium, sodium, potassium and chloride.[216] The soil
nutrients may be able to support life, but life would still have to be shielded from the intense ultraviolet light.[217] A recent analysis of martian meteorite
 − − − −
EETA79001 found 0.6 ppm ClO4, 1.4 ppm ClO3, and 16 ppm NO3, most likely of Martian origin. The ClO3 suggests the presence of other highly oxidizing
− −
oxychlorines, such as ClO2 or ClO, produced both by UV oxidation of Cl and X-ray radiolysis of ClO4. Thus, only highly refractory and/or well-protected
(sub-surface) organics or life forms are likely to survive.[218]

A 2014 analysis of the Phoenix WCL showed that the Ca(ClO4)2 in the Phoenix soil has not interacted with liquid
water of any form, perhaps for as long as 600 million years. If it had, the highly soluble Ca(ClO4)2 in contact with
liquid water would have formed only CaSO4. This suggests a severely arid environment, with minimal or no liquid
water interaction.[220]

Scientists have proposed that carbonate globules found in meteorite ALH84001, which is thought to have originated
from Mars, could be fossilized microbes extant on Mars when the meteorite was blasted from the Martian surface by a
meteor strike some 15 million years ago. This proposal has been met with skepticism, and an exclusively inorganic
origin for the shapes has been proposed.[221]
This image from Gale crater in 2018
prompted speculation that some Small quantities of methane and formaldehyde detected by Mars orbiters are both claimed to be possible evidence for
shapes were worm-like fossils, but life, as these chemical compounds would quickly break down in the Martian atmosphere.[222][223] Alternatively, these
they were geological formations compounds may instead be replenished by volcanic or other geological means, such as serpentinite.[196]
probably formed under water.[219]
Impact glass, formed by the impact of meteors, which on Earth can preserve signs of
life, has been found on the surface of the impact craters on Mars.[224][225] Likewise,
the glass in impact craters on Mars could have preserved signs of life if life existed at the site.[226][227][228]

In May 2017, evidence of the earliest known life on land on Earth may have been found in 3.48-billion-year-old geyserite and
other related mineral deposits (often found around hot springs and geysers) uncovered in the Pilbara Craton of Western
Australia. These findings may be helpful in deciding where best to search for early signs of life on the planet Mars.[229][230]

In early 2018, media reports speculated that certain rock features at a site called Jura looked like a type of fossil, but project
scientists say the formations likely resulted from a geological process at the bottom of an ancient drying lakebed, and are
related to mineral veins in the area similar to gypsum crystals.[219]

On 7 June 2018, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover had discovered organic compounds in sedimentary rocks dating to
three billion years old,[231] indicating that some of the building blocks for life were present.[232][233]
Location of subsurface
In July 2018, scientists reported the discovery of a subglacial lake on Mars, the first known stable body of water on the planet. water in Planum Australe
It sits 1.5 km (0.9 mi) below the surface at the base of the southern polar ice cap and is about 20 kilometres (12 mi)
wide.[234][235] The lake was discovered using the MARSIS radar on board the Mars Express orbiter, and the profiles were
collected between May 2012 and December 2015.[236] The lake is centered at 193° East, 81° South, a flat area that does not exhibit any peculiar topographic
characteristics. It is mostly surrounded by higher ground except on its eastern side, where there is a depression.[234]

Moons
Mars has two relatively small (compared to Earth's) natural moons, Phobos (about 22 kilometres
(14 mi) in diameter) and Deimos (about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) in diameter), which orbit close to the
planet. Asteroid capture is a long-favored theory, but their origin remains uncertain.[237] Both
satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall; they are named after the characters Phobos
(panic/fear) and Deimos (terror/dread), who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares,
god of war, into battle. Mars was the Roman equivalent to Ares.[238][239] In modern Greek, the
planet retains its ancient name Ares (Aris: Άρης).[240]

From the surface of Mars, the motions of Phobos and Deimos appear different from that of the
Moon. Phobos rises in the west, sets in the east, and rises again in just 11 hours. Deimos, being Enhanced-color HiRISE Enhanced-color HiRISE
only just outside synchronous orbit – where the orbital period would match the planet's period of image of Phobos, showing a image of Deimos (not to
rotation – rises as expected in the east but slowly. Despite the 30-hour orbit of Deimos, 2.7 days series of mostly parallel scale), showing its smooth
grooves and crater chains, blanket of regolith
elapse between its rise and set for an equatorial observer, as it slowly falls behind the rotation of
with Stickney crater at right
Mars.[241]

Because the orbit of Phobos is below synchronous altitude, the tidal

forces from the planet Mars are gradually lowering its orbit. In about 50 million years, it could either crash into Mars's surface or
break up into a ring structure around the planet.[241]

The origin of the two moons is not well understood. Their low albedo and carbonaceous chondrite composition have been
regarded as similar to asteroids, supporting the capture theory. The unstable orbit of Phobos would seem to point towards a
relatively recent capture. But both have circular orbits, near the equator, which is unusual for captured objects and the required
Orbits of Phobos and capture dynamics are complex. Accretion early in the history of Mars is plausible, but would not account for a composition
Deimos (to scale) resembling asteroids rather than Mars itself, if that is confirmed.

A third possibility is the involvement of a third body or a type of impact disruption.[242] More-recent lines of evidence for
Phobos having a highly porous interior,[243] and suggesting a composition containing mainly phyllosilicates and other minerals known from Mars,[244] point
toward an origin of Phobos from material ejected by an impact on Mars that reaccreted in Martian orbit,[245] similar to the prevailing theory for the origin of
Earth's moon. Although the VNIR spectra of the moons of Mars resemble those of outer-belt asteroids, the thermal infrared spectra of Phobos are reported to
be inconsistent with chondrites of any class.[244]

Mars may have moons smaller than 50 to 100 metres (160 to 330 ft) in diameter, and a dust ring is predicted to exist between Phobos and Deimos.[23]

Exploration
Dozens of crewless spacecraft, including orbiters, landers, and rovers, have been sent to Mars by the Soviet Union, the
United States, Europe, India, the United Arab Emirates, and China to study the planet's surface, climate, and geology.

As of 2021, Mars is host to fourteen functioning spacecraft: eight in orbit – 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, Mars Orbiter Mission, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, the Hope orbiter, and the
Tianwen-1 orbiter – and six on the surface – the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, the InSight lander, the
Perseverance rover, the Ingenuity helicopter, the Tianwen-1 lander, and the Zhurong rover.[246] The public can request
images of Mars via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiWish program.

The Mars Science Laboratory, named Curiosity, launched on 26 November 2011, and reached Mars on 6 August
2012 UTC. It is larger and more advanced than the Mars Exploration Rovers, with a movement rate up to 90 metres
(300 ft) per hour.[247] Experiments include a laser chemical sampler that can deduce the make-up of rocks at a distance
of 7 metres (23 ft).[248] On 10 February 2013, the Curiosity rover obtained the first deep rock samples ever taken from
The descent stage of the Mars
another planetary body, using its on-board drill.[249] The same year, it discovered that Mars's soil contains between Science Laboratory mission carrying
1.5% and 3% water by mass (albeit attached to other compounds and thus not freely accessible).[250] Observations by the Curiosity rover deploys its
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had previously revealed the possibility of flowing water during the warmest months parachutes to decelerate itself before
on Mars.[251] landing, photographed by Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter.
On 24 September 2014, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),
reached Mars orbit. ISRO launched MOM on 5 November 2013, with the aim of analyzing the Martian atmosphere
and topography. The Mars Orbiter Mission used a Hohmann transfer orbit to escape Earth's gravitational influence and catapult into a nine-month-long voyage
to Mars. The mission is the first successful Asian interplanetary mission.[252]

The European Space Agency, in collaboration with Roscosmos, launched the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander on 14 March 2016.[253]
While the Trace Gas Orbiter successfully entered Mars orbit on 19 October 2016, Schiaparelli crashed during its landing attempt.[254]

In May 2018, NASA's InSight lander was launched, along with the twin MarCO CubeSats that flew by Mars and acted as telemetry relays during the landing.
The mission arrived at Mars in November 2018.[255][256] InSight detected potential seismic activity (a "marsquake") in April 2019.[257][258]

InSight Lander – panorama (9 December 2018)

In 2019, MAVEN spacecraft mapped high-altitude global wind patterns at Mars for the first time.[259][260] It was discovered that the winds which are miles
above the surface retained information about the land forms below.[259]

The United Arab Emirates' Mars Hope orbiter was launched on 19 July 2020, and successfully entered orbit around Mars on 9 February 2021.[261] The probe
will conduct a global study of the Martian atmosphere.[262] With this accomplishment, UAE became the second country, after India, to reach Mars on its first
attempt.

NASA launched the Mars 2020 mission on 30 July 2020.[263] The Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter successfully landed on the surface of Mars
on 18 February 2021. The mission will cache samples for future retrieval and return of them to Earth.

China's Tianwen-1 lander-rover vehicle successfully landed on Mars on 14 May 2021 (15 May Beijing Time).[246]

Future

The current concept for the Mars sample-return mission would launch in 2026 and feature hardware built by NASA
and ESA.[264] The European Space Agency will launch the ExoMars rover and surface platform sometime between
August and October 2022.[265]

Several plans for a human mission to Mars have been proposed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but no human
mission has yet launched. SpaceX founder Elon Musk presented a plan in September 2016 to, optimistically, launch a
crewed mission to Mars in 2024 at an estimated development cost of US$10 billion, but this mission is not expected to
Concept for a Bimodal Nuclear
take place before 2027.[266] In October 2016, President Barack Obama renewed United States policy to pursue the Thermal Transfer Vehicle in low
goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s, and to continue using the International Space Station as a technology Earth orbit
incubator in that pursuit.[267][268] The NASA Authorization Act of 2017 directed NASA to get humans near or on the
surface of Mars by the early 2030s.[269]

Astronomy on Mars
With the presence of various orbiters, landers, and rovers, it is possible to practice astronomy from Mars. Although Mars's moon Phobos appears about one-
third the angular diameter of the full moon on Earth, Deimos appears more or less star-like, looking only slightly brighter than Venus does from Earth.[270]

Various phenomena seen from Earth have also been observed from Mars, such as meteors and auroras.[271] The apparent sizes of the moons Phobos and
Deimos are sufficiently smaller than that of the Sun; thus, their partial "eclipses" of the Sun are best considered transits (see transit of Deimos and Phobos from
Mars).[272][273] Transits of Mercury and Venus have been observed from Mars. A transit of Earth will be seen from Mars on 10 November 2084.[274]

On 19 October 2014, comet Siding Spring passed extremely close to Mars, so close that the coma may have enveloped Mars.[275][276][277][278][279][280]
 Earth and the Moon (MRO HiRISE, November Phobos transits the Sun Tracking sunspots from Mars
2016)[281] (Opportunity, 10 March
2004)

Viewing
The mean apparent magnitude of Mars is +0.71 with a standard deviation of 1.05.[13] Because the orbit of Mars is
eccentric, the magnitude at opposition from the Sun can range from about −3.0 to −1.4.[282] The minimum brightness
is magnitude +1.86 when the planet is in conjunction with the Sun.[13] At its brightest, Mars (along with Jupiter) is
second only to Venus in luminosity.[13] Mars usually appears distinctly yellow, orange, or red. NASA's Spirit rover
has taken pictures of a greenish-brown, mud-colored landscape with blue-grey rocks and patches of light red
sand.[283] When farthest away from Earth, it is more than seven times farther away than when it is closest. When least
favorably positioned, it can be lost in the Sun's glare for months at a time. At its most favorable times — at 15-year or
17-year intervals, and always between late July and late September — a lot of surface detail can be seen with a
telescope. Especially noticeable, even at low magnification, are the polar ice caps.[284]

As Mars approaches opposition, it begins a period of retrograde motion, which means it will appear to move
backwards in a looping motion with respect to the background stars. The duration of this retrograde motion lasts for
Animation of the apparent retrograde
about 72 days, and Mars reaches its peak luminosity in the middle of this motion.[285]
motion of Mars in 2003 as seen from
Earth.
Closest approaches

Relative

The point at which Mars's geocentric longitude is 180° different from the Sun's is known as opposition, which is near
the time of closest approach to Earth. The time of opposition can occur as much as 8.5 days away from the closest
approach. The distance at close approach varies between about 54 and 103 million km (34 and 64 million mi) due to
the planets' elliptical orbits, which causes comparable variation in angular size.[286][287] The second-to-last Mars
opposition occurred on 27 July 2018,[288] at a distance of about 58 million km (36 million mi).[289] The last Mars
opposition occurred on 13 October 2020, at a distance of about 63 million km (39 million mi).[289] The average time
between the successive oppositions of Mars, its synodic period, is 780 days; but the number of days between the dates
of successive oppositions can range from 764 to 812.[290]
Geocentric animation of Mars's orbit
As Mars approaches opposition it begins a period of retrograde motion, which makes it appear to move backwards in a
relative to Earth from January 2003
looping motion relative to the background stars. The duration of this retrograde motion is about 72 days.
to January 2019
Mars · Earth
Absolute, around the present time

Mars made its closest approach to Earth and maximum apparent brightness in nearly 60,000 years, 55,758,006 km
(0.37271925 AU; 34,646,419 mi), magnitude −2.88, on 27 August 2003, at [Link] UTC. This occurred when Mars
was one day from opposition and about three days from its perihelion, making it particularly easy to see from Earth.
The last time it came so close is estimated to have been on 12 September 57,617 BC, the next time being in 2287.[291]
This record approach was only slightly closer than other recent close approaches. For instance, the minimum distance
on 22 August 1924, was 0.37285 AU, and the minimum distance on 24 August 2208, will be 0.37279 AU.[209]

Every 15 to 17 years, Mars comes into opposition near its perihelion. These perihelic oppositions make a closer
approach to earth than other oppositions which occur every 2.1 years. Mars comes into perihelic opposition in 2003,
Mars distance from Earth in millions
2018 and 2035, with 2020 and 2033 being close to perihelic opposition.
of km (Gm).

Historical observations
The history of observations of Mars is marked by the oppositions of Mars when the planet is closest to Earth and hence is most easily visible, which occur
every couple of years. Even more notable are the perihelic oppositions of Mars, which occur every 15 or 17 years and are distinguished because Mars is close
to perihelion, making it even closer to Earth.

Ancient and medieval observations

The ancient Sumerians believed that Mars was Nergal, the god of war and plague. During Sumerian times, Nergal was a minor deity of little significance, but,
during later times, his main cult center was the city of Nineveh.[293] In Mesopotamian texts, Mars is referred to as the "star of judgement of the fate of the
dead."[294] The existence of Mars as a wandering object in the night sky was also recorded by the ancient Egyptian astronomers and, by 1534 BCE, they were
familiar with the retrograde motion of the planet.[295] By the period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Babylonian astronomers were making regular records
 of the positions of the planets and systematic observations of their behavior. For Mars, they knew that the planet made
37 synodic periods, or 42 circuits of the zodiac, every 79 years. They invented arithmetic methods for making minor
corrections to the predicted positions of the planets.[296][297] In Ancient Greece, the planet was known as
Πυρόεις.[298]

In the fourth century BCE, Aristotle noted that Mars disappeared behind the Moon during an occultation, indicating
that the planet was farther away.[299] Ptolemy, a Greek living in Alexandria,[300] attempted to address the problem of
the orbital motion of Mars. Ptolemy's model and his collective work on astronomy was presented in the multi-volume
collection Almagest, which became the authoritative treatise on Western astronomy for the next fourteen centuries.[301]
Literature from ancient China confirms that Mars was known by Chinese astronomers by no later than the fourth
century BCE.[302] In the East Asian cultures, Mars is traditionally referred to as the "fire star" (Chinese: 星
), based
on the Five elements.[303][304][305]

During the seventeenth century, Tycho Brahe measured the diurnal parallax of Mars that Johannes Kepler used to
make a preliminary calculation of the relative distance to the planet.[306] When the telescope became available, the
Galileo Galilei was the first person to diurnal parallax of Mars was again measured in an effort to determine the Sun-Earth distance. This was first performed
see Mars via telescope, in 1610.[292] by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1672. The early parallax measurements were hampered by the quality of the
instruments.[307] The only occultation of Mars by Venus observed was that of 13 October 1590, seen by Michael
Maestlin at Heidelberg.[308] In 1610, Mars was viewed by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was first to see it
via telescope.[292] The first person to draw a map of Mars that displayed any terrain features was the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens.[309]

Martian "canals"

By the 19th century, the resolution of telescopes reached a level sufficient for surface features to be identified. A perihelic
opposition of Mars occurred on 5 September 1877. In that year, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used a 22
centimetres (8.7 in) telescope in Milan to help produce the first detailed map of Mars. These maps notably contained
features he called canali, which were later shown to be an optical illusion. These canali were supposedly long, straight
lines on the surface of Mars, to which he gave names of famous rivers on Earth. His term, which means "channels" or
"grooves", was popularly mistranslated in English as "canals".[310][311]
Map of Mars by Giovanni
Influenced by the observations, the orientalist Percival Lowell founded an observatory which had 30 and 45 centimetres Schiaparelli
(12 and 18 in) telescopes. The observatory was used for the exploration of Mars during the last good opportunity in 1894
and the following less favorable oppositions. He published several books on Mars and life on the planet, which had a
great influence on the public.[312][313] The canali were independently found by other astronomers, like Henri Joseph
Perrotin and Louis Thollon in Nice, using one of the largest telescopes of that time.[314][315]

The seasonal changes (consisting of the diminishing of the polar caps and the dark areas formed during Martian summer)
Mars sketched as observed by
in combination with the canals led to speculation about life on Mars, and it was a long-held belief that Mars contained
Lowell before 1914 (south on top)
vast seas and vegetation. The telescope never reached the resolution required to give proof to any speculations. As bigger
telescopes were used, fewer long, straight canali were observed. During an observation in 1909 by Camille Flammarion
with an 84 centimetres (33 in) telescope, irregular patterns were observed, but no canali were seen.[316]

Near the end of the nineteenth century, it was widely accepted in the astronomical community that Mars had life-
supporting qualities, including oxygen and water. However, in 1894 W. W. Campbell at Lick Observatory observed the
planet and found that "if water vapor or oxygen occur in the atmosphere of Mars it is in quantities too small to be detected Map of Mars from the Hubble
by spectroscopes then available". This contradicted many of the measurements of the time and was not widely accepted. Space Telescope as seen near
Campbell and V. M. Slipher repeated the study in 1909 using better instruments, but with the same results. It wasn't until the 1999 opposition (north on top)
the findings were confirmed by W. S. Adams in 1925 that the myth of the Earth-like habitability of Mars was finally
broken. [317] However, even in the 1960s, articles were published on Martian biology, putting aside explanations other
than life for the seasonal changes on Mars. Detailed scenarios for the metabolism and chemical cycles for a functional ecosystem have been published.[318]

Spacecraft visitation

Once spacecraft visited the planet during NASA's Mariner missions in the 1960s and 1970s, these concepts were
radically broken. The results of the Viking life-detection experiments aided an intermission in which the hypothesis of
a hostile, dead planet was generally accepted.[319]

Mariner 9 and Viking allowed better maps of Mars to be made using the data from these missions, and another major
leap forward was the Mars Global Surveyor mission, launched in 1996 and operated until late 2006, that allowed
complete, extremely detailed maps of the Martian topography, magnetic field and surface minerals to be obtained.[320] Annotated map of the main
These maps are available online; for example, at Google Mars. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Express geological features and sites of past
continued exploring with new instruments and supporting lander missions. NASA provides two online tools: Mars and future missions to Mars.
Trek, which provides visualizations of the planet using data from 50 years of exploration, and Experience Curiosity,
which simulates traveling on Mars in 3-D with Curiosity.[321]

In culture
Mars is named after the Roman god of war. In different cultures, Mars represents masculinity and youth. Its symbol, a circle with an arrow
pointing out to the upper right, is used as a symbol for the male gender.

The many failures in Mars exploration probes resulted in a satirical counter-culture blaming the failures on an Earth-Mars "Bermuda Triangle", a
"Mars Curse", or a "Great Galactic Ghoul" that feeds on Martian spacecraft.[322]

Intelligent "Martians"
The fashionable idea that Mars was populated by intelligent Martians became widespread in the late 19th century. Schiaparelli's "canali" observations
combined with Percival Lowell's books on the subject put forward the standard notion of a planet that was a drying, cooling, dying world with ancient
civilizations constructing irrigation works.[323]

Many other observations and proclamations by notable personalities added to what has been termed "Mars Fever".[324] In
1899, while investigating atmospheric radio noise using his receivers in his Colorado Springs lab, inventor Nikola Tesla
observed repetitive signals that he later surmised might have been radio communications coming from another planet, possibly
Mars. In a 1901 interview, Tesla said:

It was some time afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be
due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of
them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear
the greeting of one planet to another.[325]

An 1893 soap ad playing on Tesla's theories gained support from Lord Kelvin who, while visiting the United States in 1902, was reported to have said that
the popular idea that Mars he thought Tesla had picked up Martian signals being sent to the United States.[326] Kelvin denied this report shortly before
was populated leaving: "What I really said was that the inhabitants of Mars, if there are any, were doubtless able to see New York,
particularly the glare of the electricity."[327]

In a New York Times article in 1901, Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said that they had received a telegram from
Lowell Observatory in Arizona that seemed to confirm that Mars was trying to communicate with Earth.[328]

Early in December 1900, we received from Lowell Observatory in Arizona a telegram that a shaft of light had been seen to project from Mars (the
Lowell observatory makes a specialty of Mars) lasting seventy minutes. I wired these facts to Europe and sent out neostyle copies through this
country. The observer there is a careful, reliable man and there is no reason to doubt that the light existed. It was given as from a well-known
geographical point on Mars. That was all. Now the story has gone the world over. In Europe, it is stated that I have been in communication with
Mars, and all sorts of exaggerations have spring up. Whatever the light was, we have no means of knowing. Whether it had intelligence or not, no
one can say. It is absolutely inexplicable.[328]

Pickering later proposed creating a set of mirrors in Texas, intended to signal Martians.[329]

In recent decades, the high-resolution mapping of the surface of Mars, culminating in Mars Global Surveyor,
revealed no artifacts of habitation by "intelligent" life, but pseudoscientific speculation about intelligent life on Mars
continues from commentators such as Richard C. Hoagland. Reminiscent of the canali controversy, these
speculations are based on small scale features perceived in the spacecraft images, such as "pyramids" and the "Face
on Mars". Planetary astronomer Carl Sagan wrote:

Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our Earthly hopes and
fears.[311]

The depiction of Mars in fiction has been stimulated by its dramatic red color and by nineteenth-century scientific
speculations that its surface conditions might support not just life but intelligent life.[330] Thus originated a large
number of science fiction scenarios, among which is H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, published in 1898, in
which Martians seek to escape their dying planet by invading Earth.

Influential works included Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, in which human explorers accidentally destroy
a Martian civilization, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, C. S. Lewis' novel Out of the Silent Planet Martian tripod illustration from the 1906
(1938),[331] and a number of Robert A. Heinlein stories before the mid-sixties.[332] French edition of The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
Jonathan Swift made reference to the moons of Mars, about 150 years before their actual discovery by Asaph Hall,
detailing reasonably accurate descriptions of their orbits, in the 19th chapter of his novel Gulliver's Travels.[333]

A comic figure of an intelligent Martian, Marvin the Martian, appeared in Haredevil Hare (1948) as a character in the Looney Tunes animated cartoons of
Warner Brothers, and has continued as part of popular culture to the present.[334]

After the Mariner and Viking spacecraft had returned pictures of Mars as it really is, an apparently lifeless and canal-less world, these ideas about Mars had to
be abandoned, and a vogue for accurate, realist depictions of human colonies on Mars developed, the best known of which may be Kim Stanley Robinson's
Mars trilogy. Pseudo-scientific speculations about the Face on Mars and other enigmatic landmarks spotted by space probes have meant that ancient
civilizations continue to be a popular theme in science fiction, especially in film.[335]

Interactive Mars map

 Interactive image map of the global topography of Mars. Hover your mouse over the image to see the
names of over 60 prominent geographic features, and click to link to them. Coloring of the base map
indicates relative elevations, based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global
Surveyor. Whites and browns indicate the highest elevations (+12 to +8 km); followed by pinks and reds
(+8 to +3 km); yellow is 0 km; greens and blues are lower elevations (down to −8 km). Axes are latitude
and longitude; Polar regions are noted. (See also: Mars Rovers map and Mars Memorial map) (view • discuss)

See also
List of missions to Mars
Mars monolith
Mineralogy of Mars
Outline of Mars
Timekeeping on Mars
Wikipedia table comparing stats of planets in the Solar System

Notes
a. This image was taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS), at a distance of
≈240,000 kilometres (150,000 mi) during its February 2007 encounter. The view is centered on the Aeolis quadrangle, with Gale crater, the
landing site of the Curiosity rover, prominently visible just left of center. The darker, more heavily cratered terrain in the south, Terra
Cimmeria, is composed of older terrain than the much smoother and brighter Elysium Planitia to the north. Geologically recent processes,
such as the possible existence of a global ocean in Mars's past, could have helped lower-elevated areas, such as Elysium Planitia, retain
a more youthful look.
b. Best-fit ellipsoid

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External links
Mars ([Link] at Curlie
Mars Exploration Program ([Link] at [Link]
Mars Trek – An integrated map browser of maps and datasets for Mars ([Link]
Google Mars ([Link] and Google Mars 3D ([Link] interactive maps of the
planet
Geody Mars ([Link] mapping site that supports NASA World Wind, Celestia, and other applications
Interactive 3D Gravity simulation of the Martian system and all the operational spacecraft in orbit around it as of the 12'th of June 2020 (http
s://[Link]/spaceflight/operational-spacecraft-in-orbit-around-mars)

Images
Mars images ([Link] by NASA's Planetary Photojournal
Mars images ([Link] by NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Mars images ([Link] by Malin Space Science Systems
HiRISE image catalog ([Link] by the University of Arizona

Videos
Rotating color globe of Mars ([Link] by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Rotating geological globe of Mars ([Link] by the United States Geological
Survey
NASA's Curiosity Finds Ancient Streambed – First Evidence of Water on Mars ([Link] on
YouTube by The Science Channel (2012, 4:31)
Flight Into Mariner Valley ([Link] by Arizona State University
High resolution video ([Link] simulation of rotating Mars by Seán
Doran, showing Arabia Terra, Valles Marineris and Tharsis (see album ([Link]
411399285) for more)
Mars rover captures high-resolution panorama of its home ([Link]
-[Link]) (NASA)

Cartographic resources
Mars nomenclature ([Link] and quadrangle maps with feature names ([Link]
org/web/20140308115343/[Link] by the United States Geological Survey
Geological map of Mars ([Link] by the United States Geological Survey
Viking orbiter photomap ([Link] by Eötvös Loránd University
Mars Global Surveyor topographical map ([Link]
f) by Eötvös Loránd University

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