{"id":126164,"date":"2022-11-30T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126164"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:15:44","slug":"november-28-is-marked-as-red-planet-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/november-28-is-marked-as-red-planet-day\/","title":{"rendered":"November 28 is marked as Red Planet Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Red Planet Day 2022:<\/strong> November 28 is Red Planet Day, commemorating the launch of one of the most major space missions to Mars.&nbsp;After 3 previous attempts, Spacecraft Mariner 4 became the first successful flyby of Mars. The spacecraft took off on November 28, 1964, and arrived on Mars on July 14, 1965.&nbsp;The successful mission produced 22 pictures of the Martian surface. These pictures were the first-ever close-up photos to come from deep space. This mission, along with several others that occurred afterward, has helped us learn much about the red planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-november-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Mars:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth planet from the Sun is the Red Planet or Mars. It has a very thin atmosphere over a dusty, chilly, desert world. Along with having seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was once even more active, Mars is a dynamic planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>about this planet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u2019s the iron oxide on the planet\u2019s surface that makes it red<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mars is half the size of Earth but it\u2019s still the fourth largest planet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The minimum distance from Earth to Mars is about 33.9 million miles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s the fourth planet from the sun.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deimos and Phobos are the names of the two moons on Mars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The temperature ranges from -191 to 81 \u2109.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The atmosphere is thin and is mostly made up of carbon dioxide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mars boasts the highest mountain is our solar system and it\u2019s 3 times the height of Mount Everest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One year on Mars is equal to 687 Earth days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2018, scientists found evidence of a lake under a polar ice cap on Mars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One more amazing fact is that due to the difference in gravity, a 100-pound man would only weigh 38 pounds on Mars. It&#8217;s no surprise that so many people desire to go to Mars! In fact, NASA hopes to send humans to Mars by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How many country visit Mars?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Cold War, which saw intense competition between the USSR and the US in terms of deepening their forays into space, other countries also launched their explorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong>&nbsp;has a lander (Mars Insight), a rover (Curiosity), and three orbiters (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, MAVEN); <strong>India\u2019s ISRO<\/strong>&nbsp;has an orbiter (Mangalyaan-1). India\u2019s Mars Orbiter Mission, a technology demonstration venture carried five scientific payloads (total 15 kg) collecting data on surface geology, morphology, atmospheric processes, surface temperature and atmospheric escape process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The European Union<\/strong>&nbsp;has 2 orbiters (Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter); and China and the UAE will each have an orbiter (Hope and Tianwen-1 respectively). The UAE mission will study the Martian atmosphere, and will seek to address the billion-dollar question of how and why Mars lost its atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Planet Day 2022: November 28 is Red Planet Day, commemorating the launch of one of the most major space missions to Mars.&nbsp;After 3 previous attempts, Spacecraft Mariner 4 became the first successful flyby of Mars. 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