Mars

141.6 million mi.size 2,106 mi.Mars is the "Red Planet"why? Its surface is made of thick layer of oxidized iron dust and rocks of the same color.A name for Mars can be "Rusty." The ruddy surface does not tell the whole story of the composition of this world.Dec 11, 2017.Mars has two moons.Phobos and Deimos.A sidereal day on Mars is the length of time that it takes the planet to rotate once on its axis so that stars appear in the same place in the night sky. On Earth, this takes exactly 23 hours,56 minutes