Interesting facts about Mars

* Mars has the largest canyon in the solar system. It would reach from Los Angeles to Chicago if it was on Earth
*The planet has two moons, Diemos and Phobos, irregularly shaped, each only a few kilometers wide
*The atmosphere is mostly made up of carbon dioxide
*Orbital period is 1 day, 40.2 minutes
*Olympus Mons, a 550 km wide volcano, is the largest volcano in the solar system and covers an area about the size of Arizona. It is 27 km high in contrast to Mt Everest on Earth at 8.85 km
*There is enough dust in Mars' atmosphere that the sky is usually yellowish-brown, that dust is very, very fine: about the size of cigarette smoke
* Mars is named after the god of war, as it's moons are named for attributes personified in Greek mythology as sons of the god of war
*Same land area as Earth, reminiscent of a rocky desert
*All the remaining water left on the planet is frozen in the polar ice caps or beneath the surface

I just thought some of these basic pieces of information were interesting since sometimes it is the most basic things that escape us.