The planet mars Acknowledgement Slide5 Introduction Slide6 Planets

The planet mars

• • • Acknowledgement : Slide-5 Introduction : Slide-6 Planets : Slide-7 Nine planets : Slide-8 Inferior planets : Slide-9 Superior planets : Slide-10 The red planet mars : Slide-11 Mars in night sky : Slide-12 Features : Slide-13 -17 Satellites : Slide-18 Conclusion : Slide-19 Bibliography : Slide-20

Acknowledgements * We take this opportunity to express our heart felt gratitude to all those whose contribution in this project and can never be forgotten. * We pay profound gratefulness to Mrs. B. S. Girija, Mrs. K. C. Vasundara, Mrs. B. N. Bhagya, Mr. Srinivas. * The credit for success of this project goes to the team as a whole. Project Associates VIKAS. T. V RAM. C.

Intriduction As we know there are nine planets in our solar system, Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also called as “RED PLANET”. It consists of 95. 3% of carbon-di –oxide with small amounts of carbon-monoxide, oxygen, hydrogen and water vapour. Thus forming the atmosphere.

PLANETS Planets are opaque heavenly bodies. They radiate no light of their own but shine with that reflected from the Sun. Eg: Planet mars

There are nine planets in our solar system.

Inferior Planets • The two planets inside the earth’s orbit, Mercury and Venus are known as inferior planets.

Superior planets • The planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto lie out side the earth’s orbit are known as superior planets

THE RED PLANET MARS • The first superior planet is MARS

Position of mars in night sky during April 5 -7

Features: Soil • Mars is a painted desert with soil either varnished red or rusted by a thin coat of Iron oxide.

Polar ice cap • The polar ice caps are the most prominent feature on MARS.

: Seasonal changes • Due to melting in summer and resolidifying in winter most of the polar ice is dry ice.

: Water on mars • The “Viking-1 Robot” photos has also given clear evidence that water being also exchanged between the Martian soil and the atmosphere. Viking-1 Robot

: Canals on mars • The photos shows fog hugging low areas on the planet, settling in crater bottoms and ancient dry canals.

Satellites of mars Phobos Deimos • Mars has two tiny satellites called PHOBOS and DEIMOS.

Conclusion The study of mars with detail information has been the motivation behind our project. Our project titled “THE PLANET MARS” is user friendly and has details about structure, feature and satellites of the mars. Even though a lot of efforts was put in developing this project, we do not claim that it is complete in all respects.

Bibliography Web sites • • • www. users. globalnet. co. uk www. google. com www. psiaz. com www. skypub. com www. pds. Jpl. nasa. gov Book Tenth standard state syllabus text book