Ziva mars

Do you like to look at the moon at night? Well, check this out –– Mars has two moons! One is called Phobos and the other Deimos.

You could jump around three times higher on Mars than you can on Earth. Boing! This is because the planet’s gravity – the force that keeps us on the ground – is much weaker.

Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system after Mercury. With a diameter (distance through the middle) of 6,791 kilometres, it’s roughly half the size of Earth.

Kennametal’s journey from Earth to Mars began in 2014 when NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a longtime customer of our metal-cutting tools, turned to us for a high-strength drilling solution. Little did we know that our product would someday take a seven-month ride through space with Perseverance on a mission to Mars and make the latest news headlines.

This recording of seismic activity on Mars stumped NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration for almost a year. 🤔 Then, they made an unexpected discovery. Footage Credit: NASA, JPL-CalTech, MSSS, University of Arizona, CNES, Imperial College London #sciencefacts #astronomy #solarsystem #universe #marsfacts #marsreconnaissanceorbiter #nasa #meteorite #marscrater #spaceexploration #MuseumofScience #boston #scienceforall

Maybe you grew up obsessed with bad sci-fi movies about invasions of little green men. Or maybe, like me, you’ve watched nearly every Hollywood movie ever made about real-life space missions. Either way, space exploration—and the possibility of life on other planets—has long captured the imaginations of many of us.