Mars
The rusty red frontier
A cold desert world with the largest volcano and canyon in the solar system. Mars once had rivers and lakes — and may still hold traces of life beneath its surface.
Image: ESA / Rosetta
Vital statistics
Moons
2 (Phobos, Deimos)
Gravity vs Earth
0.38 g
Day length
24h 37m
Year length
687 Earth days
Diameter
6,779 km
Surface Temp
-63 °C avg
Did you know
Olympus Mons is 22 km tall — 2.5× higher than Everest.
Fact 01
Valles Marineris is a canyon 4,000 km long.
Fact 02
Dust storms can engulf the entire planet for months.
Fact 03
Research & publications
Jump straight into peer-reviewed papers, preprints and authoritative references for Mars.
arXiv (preprints)
Open-access preprints in physics & astrophysics.
NASA ADS
The definitive bibliographic database for astronomy.
Google Scholar
Cross-publisher academic search.
Nature
Peer-reviewed articles in Nature & sister journals.
Wikipedia
Encyclopedic overview & onward references.
Tip: ask the Research AI for a curated reading list → /research
