The planet

Here's a new section, on the planet Sailor Mars represents..there'll be images coming soon too, with a news report on the possibilty of water being present on Mars!

Here are some statistics on the planet mars:
Position:4th planet from the sun, after Mercury and Venus

Relative size:7th largest, or 3rd smallest

Nickname:The 'red planet'

Diameter:6,794 km

Orbit:227,940,000 km (1.52 AU
[astronomical unit (AU) = 149,597,870.691 km; the average distance from the Earth to the Sun. 1 AU is a long way -- at 100 miles per hour (160 kph) it would take over 100 years to go 1 AU. ) from Sun

Mass:6.4219e23 kg

Month derived from the planet:March

Atmosphere: Carbon dioxide (95.3%) plus nitrogen (2.7%), argon (1.6%) and traces of oxygen (0.15%) and water (0.03%).

Natural satellites:Phobos and Deimos [from where rei's crows' names were taken, since she represents mars]
Phobos:9 km from Mars,radius of 11 km, mass of 1.08e16 kg
Deimos:23km from Mars,radius of 6 km, mass of 1.80e15 kg

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