Life in MARS

By: Drew Olayvar

Hannah Avila

Structures and Behaviors MARS About Structures

o Coreo Mantleo Crust

4 Primary Periods

o Noachian Periodo Tharsis Bulgeo Hesperian PeriodoAmazonian Period

• Fourth planet• Roman God of War, Mars.• "Red Planet" • iron oxide

About Mars…

Iron oxide- Chemical compounds composed of Iron and Oxygen. All together, there are sixteen known Iron Oxides and Oxyhydroxides.IrBut here on Earth we call it RUST. oxides

• Terrestrial planet • Has thin atmosphere • Having surface features reminiscent both

of the craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.

• The rotational period and seasonal cycles of Mars are likewise similar to those of Earth.

About Mars…

• Olympus Mons• Valles Marineris • Borealis basin • 40% of the planet

Structures of Mars

• Iron and sulfur

• iron oxide (reddish hue.)

• Major iron component (that is where the similarities stop)

• Martian core- solid and does not move

• 2,960 km in diameter.

• Lacks a magnetic field

• Bombarded by radiation that killed an potential life forms millennia ago.

Mar’s CORE

• NO tectonic plate action/assist in removing carbon

• kind of like a rock paste. • There are no numbers for the

thickness of the mantle available at this time.

Mar’s MANTLE

• Mainly basalt • From volcanic activity • 50 and 125 km thick.• Iron oxide dust.

Mar’s CRUST

• Noachis Terra;

• oldest extant 4.5 billion years ago to 3.5 billion years ago.

• scarred by many large impact craters.

Noachian Period

Amazonian Period

• Amazonis Plantia• 2.9–3.3 billion years ago to present.• few meteorite impact craters

Hesperian Period• Hesperia Planum • (3.5 billion years ago to 2.9–3.3

billion years ago). • extensive lava plains

Tharsis Bulge• A volcanic upland• Extensive flooding by

liquid water

References• http://www.google.com.ph/search/whataboutmars

• http://www.answers.com/structuresofmars • http://www.cosmicelk.net/Mars.htm • Images:

– http://www.googleimages.com/mars – http://www.marsimage.com– http://www.solarsystem.com/mars