Learn About the Solar System and the Planets in Spanish

Kids can gain a great deal of knowledge about our Solar System and Spanish by listening to songs with catchy rhythms that help them memorize words easily. They may also watch films featuring Spanish dialogue that provide additional information about planets and objects within it.

Mars is a parched planet with limited water supplies and no protective ozone layer to shield itself from ultraviolet radiation, featuring ancient river valleys and violent sandstorms.

It is red

Mars, often referred to as “El Planeta Rojo,” has long attracted stargazers since ancient times. As the fourth planet from the Sun and visible with naked eye viewing, Romans named it after Ares (their god of war), due to its blood-red hue. Furthermore, it features ancient river valleys as well as powerful sandstorms moving at half speed of sound – something even the Sun can’t do!

Mars is much colder and further from the Sun than Earth, making life on its surface harder to sustain. Furthermore, no protective ozone layer exists and gravity is weaker; similarly its magnetic field is also much weaker.

Phobos and Deimos, two small moons that orbit Mars, are potato-shaped due to insufficient mass for gravity to make them round. Phobos is the larger of the two and is slowly approaching Mars where it could either collide into it or break apart and form a ring around it within 50 million years.

Mars likely features a thick core made up of iron, nickel and sulfur. Its mantle may contain rocks known as peridotite while its crust may consist of basalt. Mars remains volcanically active today despite having decreased activity significantly over time.

Mars’ northern hemisphere is experiencing spring while its southern hemisphere is in the grips of autumn, due to the tilt of its axis varying over time and creating different climates across its history. When this tilt shifts, ice in Martian soil melts and flows downhill as liquid melts off, leaving dark streaks that have been taken as evidence of flowing salty waters in its past.

It is hot

Mars is an approximate 100km (60 mi) sphere located 100km (60 miles) away from Earth. Mars’ air, with temperatures that vary on a zero degree gradient, has more variable weather patterns due to an ineffective system for collecting and transporting air, plus variations in solar radiation resonances.

Carbon emissions heat up this oceanic planet, making life harder than ever. Yet rigorous measurements might confirm another hot planet about Earth-size exists nearby.

Scientists sometimes refer to Mars as the Red Planet due to its distinctive hue. A Renaissance artist from the 18th Century created artwork depicting Marte as God of War who must choose between Minerva and Venus as his representatives.

As its atmosphere is too thin to provide adequate protection from ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and insulation like Earth’s thicker one does, Mars remains colder than expected due to the limited protection it receives from sunlight. As a result, surface temperatures on Mars tend to be significantly lower than they would be were they closer to its star.

Storms often bring dusty particles into the atmosphere that combine together to form clouds that reach as high as the moon itself. Rarer “Mother of Pearl” clouds appear as striking doughnut shapes that make an unforgettable sight.

Planetary scientists have discovered evidence that liquid water once flowed across and just below the surface of Mars during recent geological times, yet due to cold temperatures and low air pressure it cannot exist on its current form on Mars’ surface today. Still, evidence of ancient flowing waters can be seen on steep slopes throughout southern hemisphere gullies that appear as possible evidence for such past activity.

It is cold

Mars is colored red due to the iron oxide found on its surface, featuring polar ice caps, volcanoes and canyons – as well as having much colder weather than Earth with an extremely thin atmosphere that contains carbon dioxide that makes breathing difficult for those who inhabit its surface.

Mars differs from Earth in that it lacks a magnetic field to protect its atmosphere from being stripped away by high-energy solar particles, as well as being 50% farther from the Sun than Earth, meaning less direct sunlight reaches it.

Mars’ surface is covered with a thin dust layer. When combined with Hadley cells, this dust can create faint and iridescent clouds. Together with sharp frontal storms formed from Hadley cells, such storms are known as sharp frontal storms; unlike their Earthly counterparts they tend to be much less severe due to thinner air and temperatures being significantly lower.

On Mars, wind blows primarily from the northeast; however, at higher latitudes it deviates towards the west, creating counterclockwise winds and making walking travel difficult for astronauts.

Temperature and circulation patterns on Mars fluctuate throughout each Mars year, as is typical of any planet with an atmosphere. Due to a lack of oceans, however, this variation can be more predictable; nonetheless it still causes considerable interannual variation. Solar flux changes also play a part in altering how much radiation hits Martian surfaces; which in turn influences their climate – contributing greatly to seasonal variations that often make forecasting its weather unpredictable; scientists have even discovered evidence of ancient floods on this world as well as fossils which suggest its once had life forms inhabiting its surface!

It is big

Mars is an immense red desert world with ancient river valleys, violent sand storms, dusty and rocky surfaces, deep pits called craters and Olympus Mons – our Solar System’s tallest volcano at over three times taller than Mount Everest – standing proudly taller. Mars is fourth planet from the Sun with much drier conditions compared to Earth.

Scientists theorize that Mars once featured large seas and could have even supported primitive life forms on its surface. Over the centuries however, Mars gradually cooled and its oceans disappeared, leaving only water on Mars present as ice caps at both poles or underground water sources traces to be seen today.

There are eight planets in our Solar System, such as Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mars is second-smallest after Mercury; approximately half the size of Earth with an approximate diameter of 4,224 miles (6800 kilometers).

Mars and Earth have an ever-shifting distance between them; at their closest approach, however, they can get as close as 54.6 million miles apart (826,000 kilometres).

It is small

Mars, commonly referred to as the Red Planet due to its reddish hue resembling blood, is the fourth planet from the Sun and second smallest in our solar system. It boasts two small moons – Phobos and Deimos. Additionally, its name derives from being associated with Roman god of war Mars; perhaps this association played into this moniker of its nickname.

Mars resembles our planet in many respects; its surface features canyons, volcanoes, and dry lake beds covered with canyons, volcanoes, red dust made up of oxidized iron; however unlike Earth, its atmosphere is much thinner so resulting in colder and drier conditions than on Earth.

Mars’ climate is determined by factors including its distance from the Sun, thin atmosphere, and tilted axis. Temperatures at its poles range from minus 195 to as high as 70 F at midday near its equator.

Mars’ orbit is more elliptical than Earth’s, bringing closer to the Sun at its perihelion and further away at its aphelion. Additionally, its rotation period is longer. A day on Mars lasts 24 hours and 40 minutes.

Mars’ surface may appear barren, but its interior is full of minerals and has a high water content – possibly including liquid pockets but this has yet to be confirmed. Temperature variations across its surface vary widely between minus 195 Fahrenheit at its poles in winter to as high as 70 Fahrenheit near its equator; its atmosphere is dominated by Hadley cell motion – rising heated air that circulates around its equator – creating an array of weather systems around its equator that drives weather systems such as Hadley cells – creating an abundance of minerals within.