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Planet Mars, explained
With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...
NASA's Europa Clipper uses Mars to go the distance
NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a ...
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How Many Earths Can Fit Into Larger Planets
created a vivid animated simulation to ... including Mercury, Mars and Venus. Did you know… that the largest planet in the Solar System can fit 1,321 Earths inside of it? Yeah, today we ...
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A stunning animation by a planetary scientist shows how huge our solar system is - and why that makes it so hard to depict
Most models of the solar system aren't completely accurate, and there's a good reason for that. It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding - an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar ...