Science Fair Project Ideas - The Planet Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is more similar to Earth than Venus is in regards to atmosphere, even though it's only just over half the size of our planet. There is intense interest focused on Mars due to the possibility of liquid water being present there, either still or at sometime in the planet's past. That possibility yields the chance of Mars harboring life.

Project Ideas:

1. Build a scale model of our solar system.
2. Explain the forces at work when the Mars orbits the sun. What keeps it in place? Is it moving further away?
3. Study pictures.
4. What are the features of this planet? Could they support some kind of life? Why or why not?

Link Resources to Complete the Science Fair Project

1. Basics of The Planet Mars
2. Pictures of The Planet Mars
3. Build a Solar System
4. Your Weight on Other Worlds

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