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- Diameter: 4,223 miles
- Length of Year: 22.5 months
- Rotation Period: 24 hrs 37 min
- Temp: -225 to 63 deg
- Atmosphere: carbon Dioxide, nitrogen, argon,
oxygen,carbon monoxide
- Distance from Earth: 206 million miles
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NASA's newest spacecraft is headed toward Mars on a mission to dig for traces of water, transmit
pictures and (for the first time) listen for sounds! This is the first mission that will attempt to
return with material from the planet's surface.
Here
is must-read article from CNN. |
The Mars Pathfinder is the second of NASA's low-cost planetary missions and landed on the Martian surface on July 4, 1997.
The mission consists of a stationary lander and a surface rover. The primary objective of the mission is to demonstrate the
feasibility of low-cost landings on, and exploration of, the Martian surface.
More Info. on Pathfinder? Try these:
![[Zagami]](images/snc-zagami.gif)
SNC Meteorites
There are three types of achondrite meteorites that are classified as SNC (shergottite, nakhlite, chassignite).
As each of these types are very similar, scientists believe that they came from the same parent body. This class
of meteorites contain some very unique characteristics which have also led scientists to believe that they may have
originated on Mars. The photo to the right is of the Zagami meteorite, which fell in Nigeria on the 3rd of October in 1962.
Other Resources!
Rather than try to re-invent the wheel and place a bunch of other interesting martian facts
on this page, we have decided to provide a quick list of links to the many other web sites that
are discussing this exciting issue! Some are official (NASA, etc...) and some are not!
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