Mars Diameter: 6750 km, 0.53 Earth diameters Planetary Mass: 6.42x1023 kg, 0.107 Earth masses Average Distance from Sun: 217 million km, 1.52 AU (astronomical units) Length of Day: 24.6 Earth hours Length of Year: 687 Earth days Number of natural satellites: 2 - Phobos and Deimos Planetary ring system: Yes Average temperature: ~210 K (-63 C) Atmospheric composition: Very thin. Carbon dioxide gas (CO2) - 95.3% and Nitrogen (N2) - 2.7% AU stands for astronomical unit. One AU is the average distance from the center of the Earth to the center of the Sun: 149,597,870 km
Mass (1024 kg) 0.64185 Volume (1010 km3) 16.318 Equatorial radius (km) 3397 Polar radius (km) 3375 Ellipticity (Flattening) 0.00648 Mean density (kg/m3) 3933 Surface gravity (m/s2) 3.69 Escape velocity (km/s) 5.03 Number of natural satellites 2 Planetary ring system No
Semimajor axis (106 km) 227.92
Sidereal orbit period (days) 686.980
Perihelion (106 km) 206.62
Aphelion (106 km) 249.23
Synodic period (days) 779.94
Orbit inclination (deg) 1.850
Orbit eccentricity 0.0935
Sidereal rotation period (hrs) 24.6229
Length of day (hrs) 24.6597
Obliquity to orbit (deg) 25.19
Semimajor axis (106 km) Mean distance from the Sun (or other central body in the
case of satellites) from center to center in 10^6 kilometers
Sidereal orbit period (days) The time it takes the body to make one revolution about
the Sun relative to the fixed stars in days.
Synodic period (days) The time interval between similar configurations in the
orbit (e.g. opposition) of the body and Earth, in days.
Perihelion (106 km) The point in a body's orbit closest to the
Sun, in 10^6 kilometers.
Aphelion (106 km) The point in a body's orbit furthest from
the Sun, in 10^6 kilometers.
Orbit inclination (deg) The inclination of the orbit to the ecliptic, in degrees.
For satellites, this is with respect to the planet's
equator.
Orbit eccentricity A measure of the circularity of the orbit, equal to
(aphelion - perihelion distance)/(2 x semi-major axis)
For a circular orbit, eccentricity = 0.
Sidereal rotation period (hrs) The time for one rotation of the body on its axis
relative to the fixed stars, in hours. A minus sign
indicates retrograde rotation.
Length of day (hrs) The average time in hours for the Sun to move from the
noon position in the sky at a point on the equator back
to the same position, on Earth this defines a 24 hour day.
Obliquity to orbit (deg) The tilt of the body's equator relative to the body's
orbital plane, in degrees.
Discoverer: Unknown
Discovery Date: Prehistoric
Distance from Earth
Minimum (106 km) 54.5
Maximum (106 km) 401.3
Apparent diameter from Earth
Maximum (seconds of arc) 25.7
Minimum (seconds of arc) 3.5
Mean values at opposition from Earth
Distance from Earth (106 km) 78.39
Apparent diameter (seconds of arc) 17.9
Apparent visual magnitude -2.0
Maximum apparent visual magnitude -2.91
Surface Pressure: ~6.1 mb (variable) [6.9 mb to 9 mb (Viking 1 Lander site)]
Surface Density: ~0.020 kg/m3
Average temperature: ~210 K (-63 C)
Diurnal temperature range: 184 K to 242 K (-89 to -31 C) (Viking 1 Lander site)
Wind speeds: 2-7 m/s (summer), 5-10 m/s (fall), 17-30 m/s (dust storm) (Viking Lander sites)
Mean molecular weight: 43.34 g/mole
Atmospheric composition (by volume):
Major : Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - 95.32% ; Nitrogen (N2) - 2.7%
Argon (Ar) - 1.6%; Oxygen (O2) - 0.13%; Carbon Monoxide (CO) - 0.08%
Minor (ppm): Water (H2O) - 210; Nitrogen Oxide (NO) - 100; Neon (Ne) - 2.5;
Hydrogen-Deuterium-Oxygen (HDO) - 0.85; Krypton (Kr) - 0.3;
Xenon (Xe) - 0.08
Phobos Deimos Semi-major axis* (km) 9378 23459 Sidereal orbit period (days) 0.31891 1.26244 Sidereal rotation period (days) 0.31891 1.26244 Orbital inclination (deg) 1.08 1.79 Orbital eccentricity 0.0151 0.0005 Major axis radius (km) 13.4 7.5 Median axis radius (km) 11.2 6.1 Minor axis radius (km) 9.2 5.2 Mass (1015 kg) 10.6 2.4 Mean density (kg/m3) 1900 1750 Geometric albedo 0.07 0.08 Visual magnitude V(1,0) +11.8 +12.89 Apparent visual magnitude (V0) 11.3 12.40 *Mean orbital distance from the center of Mars.
Information supplied by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Alternative facts for Mars by the U.S. Geological Survey: Includes: Radius, orbital period, rotation period, etc.