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The red color of Mars is due to the presence of iron oxide, or rust, on its surface. ---- Answer provided by ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MARS

... the two masses and the square of the distance between them. So, for example, Jupiter is a high-mass planet with a large diameter and has a relatively large gravitational force ...

... around by the atmosphere, and so the sky looks blue. Where there is no atmosphere, this cannot happen, so the sky looks black. If you stand on some planets, the sky has funny colors because the atmosphere is different from the one we know—for instance, on Mars the sky looks red. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber & Capt. USN (Ret ...

... . Temperature is a measure of heat energy. In space there is no air so heat transports by radiation—for example, you feel warmth when you hold your hand near a red-hot stove. The Sun is the major source of heat in space. The Earth is also a major source of heat in space ...

Mars is the second most studied planet in the solar system because it is easily visible, relatively close, considerably more hospitable than most other planets, and the most likely ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MARS

We do not know yet whether that is true. We have only just begun to develop the technologies to check. Life grows in ... deep dark caves, so there could be life that we have not discovered yet on Mars, say, and elsewhere in the solar system. And there are billions of other solar systems ... humans busy for a long time exploring. If this "pale blue dot" called the Earth is the only place in the vastness of space which has living things, will that make ...

... Earth's protective atmosphere—begins at a height of 62 miles above Earth and is called the Karman Line, named for the Hungarian aeronautical pioneer Theodore Von Karman who helped ...

... from pure energy, often from a very, very large explosion or collision. Just like matter is made up of atoms that contain protons (with positive electrical charge) and electrons (with negative electrical charge), anti-matter is made up of anti-protons (-) and anti-electrons (+), also called positrons. Anti-matter exists in ...

... produced by the conversion of hydrogen into helium in the core of the Sun, which is called fusion, replenishes all the heat and energy that the Sun gives off into space ...

... . It has an equatorial diameter of about 4,229 miles. However, since Mars has no oceans, the surface area of Mars is approximately equal to that of the dry land on Earth. ---- Answer ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MARS

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