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Landing location


Crater Gusev - Landing Location

Mars Statistics

Mass (kg)6.421e+23
Mass (Earth = 1)1.0745e-01
Equatorial radius (km)3,397.2
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)5.3264e-01
Mean density (gm/cm^3)3.94
Mean distance from the Sun (km)227,940,000
Mean distance from the Sun (Earth = 1)1.5237
Rotational period (hours)24.6229
Rotational period (days)1.025957
Orbital period (days)686.98
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec)24.13
Orbital eccentricity0.0934
Tilt of axis (degrees)25.19
Orbital inclination (degrees)1.850
Equatorial surface gravity (m/sec^2)3.72
Equatorial escape velocity (km/sec)5.02
Visual geometric albedo0.15
Magnitude (Vo)-2.01
Minimum surface temperature-140°C
Mean surface temperature-63°C
Maximum surface temperature20°C
Atmospheric pressure (bars)0.007
Atmospheric composition
Carbon Dioxide (C02)
Nitrogen (N2)
Argon (Ar)
Oxygen (O2)
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Water (H2O)
Neon (Ne)
Krypton (Kr)
Xenon (Xe)
Ozone (O3)

95.32%
2.7%
1.6%
0.13%
0.07%
0.03%
0.00025%
0.00003%
0.000008%
0.000003%

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