Mars

1. It would take about 6 months for a spacecraft to get to Mars
2. Olympus Mons, a 550 km wide volcano, is the largest volcano in the solar system and covers an area about the size of Arizona.
Every two years or so the Sun, Earth and Mars line up. This is called an opposition.
Mars has the largest canyon in the solar system. It would reach from Los Angeles to Chicago if it was on Earth!
In November 1996, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began America's return to Mars
Mars is named after “the roman god of war”.
Mars takes 24 hours &37 mins to spin on its axis.
Mars’s moons are “phobos”& “deimos”.

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