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A planet in our solar system with the following traits:

Size: 4,217 miles wide (6,787 km)

Location in Solar System: 4rth planet from the sun

Distance from Sun: 142 million miles (2228 million km)

Year (length of revolution around sun): 697 earth days

Day (length of rotation): 24 hours and 37 minutes (earth time)

Landscape: Similar to Earth with mountains, deserts, volcanoes and even dry riverbeds, but no bodies of water or life as we know it. There are even polar ice caps.

Moons: 2 moons: Phobos and Deimos

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Next Generation Science Standards Connection

ESS1. A The universe and its stars

ESS1. B Earth and the solar system

Patterns of movement of the sun, moon, and stars as seen from Earth can be bserved, described, and predicted