today we’re going to announce that under
certain circumstances liquid water has
been found on Mars now that running
water has been found on Mars and by the
way how freaking cool is that we thought
we’d share some other mind-bending facts
about our space neighbor welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down our top five
most far-out facts about Mars the red
planet that’s making headlines across
the world number five
Mars has the largest dust storms in the
solar system I guarantee you that at
some point everything’s gonna go south
on you
and you’re gonna say this is it in the
Martian a giant dust storm strands them
on the planet that’s not just fiction
that’s basically what the dust storm on
Mars looks like Mars whips up some truly
intense dust storms and most are so big
that they can be seen from Earth using
only a telescope once every three Mars
years or so the planet conjures up a
global dust storm due to the radiative
heat of the Sun these as the name
suggests cover the entire planet and
completely block out the Sun shrouding
Mars in a terrifying and dirty darkness
and that’s probably when the aliens come
out
number four in 2003 Mars made its
closest approach to the earth in 60,000
years using technology available today
the journey from Earth to the Red Planet
would take about 180 days those of you
alive in 2003 which were assuming as a
vast majority of you can proudly claim
that you lived through an important
moment in the history of the solar
system at nine fifty one Universal Time
on August 27 2003 Mars came the closest
to Earth and spin since in the end earth
all times a day you can almost touch a
distance of this many light-years that’s
about 56 million kilometers or about 35
million miles ok doesn’t sound very
close but that’s almost nothing in terms
of space distance and those prone to
hysteria even feared that Mars is
gravitational pull would yank earth out
of orbit or make it tilt on its axis or
something however the Sun is hundreds of
times bigger than Mars and is normally
closer to the earth than Mars is and the
earth does just fine
so as all of you over the age of 12 can
attest nothing catastrophic happened
number three it houses the tallest peak
in the entire solar system
it’s the biggest okay not only is Mars
the champion of dust storms but it also
has the distinction of having the
tallest peak in the entire solar system
Olympus Mons which is a volcano is so
high in flat that someone could
literally be standing on it without
realizing it due to a combination of its
immense size and the curvature of the
planet it’s more than double the height
of Mount Everest and rises roughly 15
miles or 24 kilometres above the mean
surface level of Mars it’s got a cliff
face that’s eight kilometers or five
miles high imagine standing at the base
of that it covers roughly 30,000 square
kilometers or you know what can I just
make a request that once we move to Mars
we use only miles or kilometers gate mix
the metric system for the love of God
number two pieces of Mars have fallen to
earth you probably made out of some
precious metal and everyone’s gonna want
you every once in a while a small
meteorite might fall from space and land
in some farmer’s field making for a nice
keepsake and other times they’re
freaking pieces that have fallen off of
Mars there have been at least five
recorded occasions of people recovering
pieces of Martian rock likely blasted
off by an asteroid strike with the most
recent falling in the Moroccan desert
two hundred and twenty pounds of Martian
rock are known to exist on earth and
each piece goes for about ten times the
price of gold due to their immense
rarity and the value they hold to
scientists who like to study the hell
out of them Steve’s most promising find
is in the microscope if it contains
nickel it is most likely a meteorite
number one lichens and bacteria can also
survive on Mars
in the ever-important research of space
colonization scientists have begun to
dabble in ideas regarding terraforming
Mars researchers at the German Aerospace
Center simulated a Martian environment
and discovered that lichens and bacteria
continued to thrive in the conditions a
huge step for theorizing the possibility
of life on Mars I am the greatest
botanist on this planet even though
terraforming Mars likely won’t happen
for thousands of years scientists have
already devised various methods really
how well we could turn Mars and welcome
place where we could live it is a
fixer-upper of a planet these include
large mirrors that will reflect sunlight
onto the surface or smashing ammonia
heavy asteroids if we can find any of
them in to the planet to raise
greenhouse gas levels it’s an exciting
time to be alive just not on Mars so
what do you think of our space neighbor
I own all my colleagues are extremely
excited would you be interested in
signing up for a manned mission for more
10 times the price of bold top tens and
ammonia heavy top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
well it ain’t a meteor yeah it is it
came out of the sky well I’m sure it did
but it ain’t no meteor it’s a big old
frozen chunk of
you
certain circumstances liquid water has
been found on Mars now that running
water has been found on Mars and by the
way how freaking cool is that we thought
we’d share some other mind-bending facts
about our space neighbor welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down our top five
most far-out facts about Mars the red
planet that’s making headlines across
the world number five
Mars has the largest dust storms in the
solar system I guarantee you that at
some point everything’s gonna go south
on you
and you’re gonna say this is it in the
Martian a giant dust storm strands them
on the planet that’s not just fiction
that’s basically what the dust storm on
Mars looks like Mars whips up some truly
intense dust storms and most are so big
that they can be seen from Earth using
only a telescope once every three Mars
years or so the planet conjures up a
global dust storm due to the radiative
heat of the Sun these as the name
suggests cover the entire planet and
completely block out the Sun shrouding
Mars in a terrifying and dirty darkness
and that’s probably when the aliens come
out
number four in 2003 Mars made its
closest approach to the earth in 60,000
years using technology available today
the journey from Earth to the Red Planet
would take about 180 days those of you
alive in 2003 which were assuming as a
vast majority of you can proudly claim
that you lived through an important
moment in the history of the solar
system at nine fifty one Universal Time
on August 27 2003 Mars came the closest
to Earth and spin since in the end earth
all times a day you can almost touch a
distance of this many light-years that’s
about 56 million kilometers or about 35
million miles ok doesn’t sound very
close but that’s almost nothing in terms
of space distance and those prone to
hysteria even feared that Mars is
gravitational pull would yank earth out
of orbit or make it tilt on its axis or
something however the Sun is hundreds of
times bigger than Mars and is normally
closer to the earth than Mars is and the
earth does just fine
so as all of you over the age of 12 can
attest nothing catastrophic happened
number three it houses the tallest peak
in the entire solar system
it’s the biggest okay not only is Mars
the champion of dust storms but it also
has the distinction of having the
tallest peak in the entire solar system
Olympus Mons which is a volcano is so
high in flat that someone could
literally be standing on it without
realizing it due to a combination of its
immense size and the curvature of the
planet it’s more than double the height
of Mount Everest and rises roughly 15
miles or 24 kilometres above the mean
surface level of Mars it’s got a cliff
face that’s eight kilometers or five
miles high imagine standing at the base
of that it covers roughly 30,000 square
kilometers or you know what can I just
make a request that once we move to Mars
we use only miles or kilometers gate mix
the metric system for the love of God
number two pieces of Mars have fallen to
earth you probably made out of some
precious metal and everyone’s gonna want
you every once in a while a small
meteorite might fall from space and land
in some farmer’s field making for a nice
keepsake and other times they’re
freaking pieces that have fallen off of
Mars there have been at least five
recorded occasions of people recovering
pieces of Martian rock likely blasted
off by an asteroid strike with the most
recent falling in the Moroccan desert
two hundred and twenty pounds of Martian
rock are known to exist on earth and
each piece goes for about ten times the
price of gold due to their immense
rarity and the value they hold to
scientists who like to study the hell
out of them Steve’s most promising find
is in the microscope if it contains
nickel it is most likely a meteorite
number one lichens and bacteria can also
survive on Mars
in the ever-important research of space
colonization scientists have begun to
dabble in ideas regarding terraforming
Mars researchers at the German Aerospace
Center simulated a Martian environment
and discovered that lichens and bacteria
continued to thrive in the conditions a
huge step for theorizing the possibility
of life on Mars I am the greatest
botanist on this planet even though
terraforming Mars likely won’t happen
for thousands of years scientists have
already devised various methods really
how well we could turn Mars and welcome
place where we could live it is a
fixer-upper of a planet these include
large mirrors that will reflect sunlight
onto the surface or smashing ammonia
heavy asteroids if we can find any of
them in to the planet to raise
greenhouse gas levels it’s an exciting
time to be alive just not on Mars so
what do you think of our space neighbor
I own all my colleagues are extremely
excited would you be interested in
signing up for a manned mission for more
10 times the price of bold top tens and
ammonia heavy top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
well it ain’t a meteor yeah it is it
came out of the sky well I’m sure it did
but it ain’t no meteor it’s a big old
frozen chunk of
you
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