Information Report - Planet Mars.

 Mars! Mars is the fourth planet in our solar system, and also holds the largest mountain, which is 3x larger than Mt Everest! This information report is based all around planet Mars. 

Mars is known as the red planet. This signature colour comes from a chemical, known as iron oxide. Another reason why the planet Mars is red, is from rust, which causes the soil and atmosphere to look red. This is also the reason why they named the planet Mars. Mars is named after the ancient Romans for their god of war, mainly because its reddish colour resembles blood.

Mars is the fourth planet in our solar system, as already said. And its distance from the sun is 315.32 million km. 4.603 billion, is how old Mars is, and was found in the year 1610. Did you know, there were 18 missions to Mars ? And all those missions were successful.

There are two moons that Mars has, which are Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is the innermost and bigger moon of Mars. Phobos is named after the Greek God Phobos, and a son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the twin brother of Deimos. Deimos, is the outermost of the two moons. Deimos’s distance between Mars is 23, 460 km, much further than the other moon.

Remember readers, there is way more information about Planet Mars. Who knows, maybe one day we might have to live on Mars. Overall hope you enjoyed reading this report, and I also hope you learnt something new as well.

This was my writing task for this week. I had to write a information report based on planet Mars. This was a fun task to do, hope you enjoyed, and learnt something new aswell.