Mars Challenges

Need	Challenge	Possible solution
Oxygen	1 percent on mars	moxie
Water	No water on mars it is ice	You could dig into the ground to get water
Food	Food wouldn't last long enough	You can grow crops without soil
Selter	Mars atmosphere is 100 times thinner than earth's	Any shelter on mars would need to be pressured

Becoming a Martian  SJ May 2017

Imaginary Planet

Imaginary Planet Information Report

Use your planning from earlier in the week to sort your ideas into paragraphs. You may add the heading in a blue box after discussing with the teacher.

Plan For My Imaginary Planet

This is my first plan

Mars community

Mars

Mars

Mars is in our solar system. It is 6780 km in diameter which is half the size of Earth.  This makes it the second smallest planet in our Solar System. Mars is 227.8 million km from the sun.  It is the fourth planet from the sun. it is the last inner planet. It takes 687 days for mars to orbit the sun.

Mars looks different than other planets. On  Mars there are two moons called Phobos and Deimos. Mars has a volcano called Olympus which is 27 km in height and is 3 times taller than Mount Everest. Mars is called the red planet because the colour of mars is blood red.

Mars is made out of rock iron and dust.

Mars history goes back a long way. It is named after the roman god of war. An Italian astronomer called Galileo was the first person to see Mars with a telescope. It can be seen in the night sky without the use of a telescope. Mariner 9 got launched on to mars in may 30 1971.

We were learning to use topic sentences and describe some of the characteristics and fetchers of the different components of the solar system