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  • Mars special characteristics are that volcanoes,wind,and water an form it's layers.
  • It's winds speeds can go up to as much as 600 miles an hour.
  • The air mass is 639E21 kg ( 0.107 Earth Mass )
  • Mars atmosphere  is also roughly 100 times thinner than earths atmosphere
  • Mars also has many different gasses such as carbon dioxide , nitrogen , and carbon monoxide.
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  • hydrogen caused mars to lose it's atmosphere because of all the particles.
  • some scientist believe that mars had a much thicker atmosphere than earth did.
  • scientist think that  on mars 3.5 billion years ago was  similar to that of early earth : warm and wet.
  • Mars gas density is only 3.94 grams per cubic centimeter.
  • Also it is constantly filled with small particles of dust mainly iron oxide which gives it it's reddish hue.

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