Mars Plush
Mars…is a ruddy Buddy and a friendly neighbor! Mars, the red planet, is named after the Roman God of War, but he is a lover, not a fighter. This guy is one friendly Martian!
I am the fourth planet from the Sun and your nearest planetary neighbor. I can pass as close as 35 million miles away from you. My most distinctive characteristic is my rusty red color caused by iron rich minerals in my rocks. When viewed from space, the only areas not red are the white patches at my poles . . . my polar ice caps . . . frozen all year round. I am named after the Roman God of War because my red color is reminiscent of blood. But don’t worry; I’m a peace loving, friendly Martian!
My day is just a few minutes longer than yours, but while Earth has one Moon, I have two. Deimos and Phobos are very small and orbit very close to my surface, Deimos is only about 3700 miles away and takes just 8 hours to orbit me. Phobos is further away, and its orbit takes 30 hours. Your Moon. on the other hand, takes an entire month to orbit the Earth!
Features
- Height of toy seated is approximately 5 1/2 inches
- All New Materials
- Content: Polyester Fiber
- Conforms to all EU and US Consumer Product Safety Commission Toy Regulations
- Hand Made in China
- Rated "0+" . . . Appropriate for children of all ages
- Care. Spot clean with mild detergent and cold water, but toy may be machine washed in cold water, gentle cycle, if needed. Best to dry at low or no heat in a pillow case or similar to reduce risk of scratching "eyes."
Did you know...
Life on Mars and Percival Lowell—the idea and the man have remained inextricably linked since the 1890s. Percival Lowell, the founder of Lowell Observatory, was not the first astronomer to suggest life existed on Mars and he certainly was not the last; he was not the first scientist to believe he saw direct proof of that life—the so-called canals that we know today are not real—and, again, he was not the last. But he was probably the loudest, and his name is ubiquitous in discussions of life on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system.
Later generations of astronomers at the Observatory researched the red planet. The most prolific was probably E.C. Slipher, who studied Mars for decades and captured some 100,000 images, the majority with the 24-inch Clark Telescope. Another Mars researcher was Clyde Tombaugh, who is best remembered for his discovery of another planet—Pluto—at Lowell Observatory in 1930.
Today, postdoctoral associate Jennifer Hanley continues this long heritage of Mars research at Lowell, studying salts and their relationship to the stability of water on Mars.
Celestial Buddies
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