Mars

List the planets from easiest to see in the night sky to hardest

• Mercury, Venus, Mars

• Mars, Venus, Mercury

• Venus, Mars, Mercury

• Venus, Mercury, Mars

Why is Mars referred to as the Red Planet?

• high abundance of iron oxides
• red daytime sky
• light bent towards the red spectrum
• none of these answer choices

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Mars has an atmosphere containing what percentage of carbon dioxide?

• 70%
• 27%
• 2.7%

• greater than 95%

Has there been water on Mars?

• Yes
• Evidence that there was
• Evidence that there wasn't
• No

Astronomers are convinced that liquid water was present on Mars in the past because

• huge subsurface deposits of ice have been seen with X-ray telescopes.
• during each martian summer large lakes are observed as the polar cap melts.
•  there is a huge amount of water vapor in martian clouds.
• the surface has water-cut channels on it.

Like Earth, the poles of Mars are covered in ice. 

• True
• False

Does Mars have a Magnetic Field

• no

• yes but weak

• yes, but only a partial surface one

• yes- about the same as Earth

Mars has two moons; what are their names?

• Phobos and Deisha
• Deisha and Seimos
• Seimos and Deimos
• Phobos and Deimos

Valles Marineris was described as a titanic canyon system with what dimensions?

• 2 thousand feet long, six miles deep
• 2,500 miles long, 6,000 feet deep
• 2,500 miles long, 17 miles deep
• twenty-five hundred miles long, six miles deep

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Did Valles Marineris, form the same why our Grand Canyon form?

• Yes

• no

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