Mars

Mars is a planet in the solar system, it is the fourth planet from the sun, and is Dora's home planet. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet". Mars is among the brightest objects in Earth's sky and its high-contrast albedo features have made it a common subject for telescope viewing. It is classified as a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest of the Solar System's planets with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi). In terms of orbital motion, a Martian solar day (sol) is equal to 24.5 hours and a Martian solar year is equal to 1.88 Earth years (687 Earth days). Mars has two natural satellites that are small and irregular in shape: Phobos and Deimos.
When viewed closely, the relatively flat plains in northern parts of Mars strongly contrast with the cratered terrain in southern highlands – this terrain observation is known as the Martian dichotomy. Mars hosts many enormous extinct volcanos (such as Olympus Mons, 21.9 km or 13.6 mi tall) and one of the largest canyons in the Solar System (Valles Marineris, 4,000 km or 2,500 mi long). Geologically, the planet is fairly active with marsquakes trembling underneath the ground, dust devils sweeping across the landscape, and cirrus clouds. Carbon dioxide is substantially present in Mars's polar ice caps and thin atmosphere. During a year, there are large surface temperature swings on the surface between −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) to 5.7 °C (42.3 °F) similar to Earth's seasons, as both planets have significant orbital eccentricity and axial tilt.
Mars was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. During the Noachian period (4.5 to 3.5 billion years ago), Mars's surface was marked by meteor impacts, valley formation, erosion, and the possible presence of water oceans. The Hesperian period (3.5 to 3.3–2.9 billion years ago) was dominated by widespread volcanic activity and flooding that carved immense outflow channels. The Amazonian period, which continues to the present, was marked by the wind as a dominant influence on geological processes. It is unknown whether life has ever existed on Mars.
Since the late 20th century, Mars has been explored by uncrewed spacecraft and rovers, with the first flyby by the Mariner 4 probe in 1965, the first Mars orbiter by the Mars 2 probe in 1971, and the first landing by the Viking 1 probe in 1976. As of 2023, there are at least 11 active probes orbiting Mars or at the Martian surface. Mars is an attractive target for future human exploration missions, though in the 2020s no such mission is planned.
==History==
===World War III: The Interplanetary War between the Heroes and the Villains===
it is the first of the planets other than Earth that got invaded by the Heroes and the Villains, as the Martians aliens used bomb weapons to fight back, Mars along with most other celestial bodies got nuked, eventually contaminating the planet and also making it have an intense "Marsquake" from The Solar System Quake Apocalypse, that triggered an ice age, just like what happened to Earth.
===Polvina gets an Elmo error===
The Loud House team, Marcelo, Lia, and Isa hid on Mars' night to protect themselves from the Demon Dragon who chased them and they get in trouble in the asteroid belt where Ceres is at.
===Polvina gets a Dora error===
The Loud House team, Marcelo, Lia, Isa, and Marley visited Mars and they encountered numerous characters, Dora, Barney, Fluttershy, Buzz Lightyear, Elmo, Sonic, and Sid.
==Description==
Mars is a red planet covered in iron oxide and has a poisonous atmosphere of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, small quantities of carbon monoxide, water vapor, nitrogen oxide, neon, and traces of hydrogen deuterium oxide, krypton and xenon.
after the Hero-Villain war, Mars has it's poles covered in thick sheets of dry ice and snow made of carbon dioxide.
with many cultures, there are hundreds of sovereign states on the planet.
Mars' government name is called the "Martian People's Republic", a totalitarian communist organization that controls the entirety of Mars and it's sovereign states.
==Trivia==
*Mars has a thin atmosphere comprising mostly of carbon dioxide, the stuff plants breathe in.
**recently, bacteria from Earth came to Mars thanks to rovers, like the Perseverance rover, that already started to wreak havoc on the planet, eventually becoming an invasive species.
*Mars is also one of the only two planets in the solar system to be governed and controlled entirely by communist states, the other one is Gonggong.
**Because of this, Mars is one of the solar system's most corrupt planets, and has one of the lowest human development indexes out of any planet in the solar system.
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