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Mars, a reddish surface with white polar caps
Plate V

Mars

Its rust-red colour comes from oxidised iron in the dust covering its surface. Home to the tallest known volcano in the system, Olympus Mons, and a canyon, Valles Marineris, long enough to stretch across a good part of a continent. Its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are likely captured asteroids.

Diameter6,779 km
Average distance from Sun227.9 million km
Local year687 Earth days
Moons2 (Phobos, Deimos)