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~ MARS ~

Fourth Planet of
the Solar System






Phobos


Deimos

Distance from Sun: 148 million miles
Diameter: 4,221 miles
              (0.53 Earth's diameter)
Length of Year: 668.595 local days
                       (686.973 earth days)
Length of Day: 24:39 earth hours
Gravity: 0.38 g
Axil Tilt: 25°
Moons: 2; Phobos, Deimos
Average Surface Temp. (original): -80°C to -30°C
                      (post-terraforming): -20°C to 15°C
Atmospheric Pressure (original): 0.1 psi
                   (post-terraforming): 10 psi
.......Terraformed in the 32nd to 33rd Centuries A.D.
Population (4000 A.D.): 50 million
                 (6000 A.D.): 95 million
              (12,000 A.D.): 500 million
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

      Originally a cold, red, dusty, desert planet with a thin atmosphere, Mars occupied the minds of men for thousands of years as the bright, red wanderer in the sky. In fact, when Man built his first rockets and conquered outer space, it was the Red Planet that would eventually become the first planet beyond the Earth that Man would set foot on, less than a century after the launch of Sputnik.
      Early colonisation efforts would come to halt, however, in the early 22nd Century A.D. when civilisation on Earth was destroyed in the fires of Nuclear Holocaust. Mars would remain abandoned for nearly a thousand Terran years until civilisation was rebuilt on Earth. And in the 31st Century, Man once again returned to the Red Planet, this time to terraform the world - transforming it, over the course of two centuries, into one hospitable to human beings with open bodies of water, vegetation, and a breathable atmosphere.
      After the Terraformation, Mars became a cool, habitable planet dominated by dry steppes and cratered shrublands with sparse forests and farmlands in areas near the coast. Cold, red deserts still dominate in expansive areas further away from the planet’s small seas, and high upon the tops of the planet’s massive dome volcanoes remain areas that are practically unchanged since before Man’s arrival.
      Throughout the long millenia of the Terran Autocracy, Mars would exist as a sort of backwater planet in the Solar System with a small population of millions in contrast to Earth’s dozens of billions, but would still have an important role to play in the Solar System’s history...


Go to: The History of Mars




Maps represent Mars after the planet was terraformed in the 4th Millenium A.D.


click on image to view more detailed map


circumference at equator: 13,260 miles








The Moons of
~ MARS ~




Phobos

Distance from Mars: 5,750 miles
Orbital Period: 7:39 earth hours
Synodic Period†: 10:51 Mars hours
Mean Diameter: 14 miles
Arc Diameter*: 0°10'
Gravity: 0.0006 g


Phobos is notable for being the only moon in the Solar System to rise in the West and set in the East.
This is due to it's orbit being faster than Mars' rotation.

Deimos

Distance from Mars: 14,580 miles
Orbital Period: 30:18 earth hours
Synodic Period†: 5.33 Mars days
Mean Diameter: 8 miles
Arc Diameter*: 0°02'
Gravity: 0.0003 g
* “Arc Diameter” refers to the visual size of the moon as seen from the surface of it's planet.
For comparison, the Earth's Moon has an Arc Diameter of 0°30' as seen from Earth.

† “Synodic Period” refers to the period a moon takes to make one circuit around Mars’ sky.









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