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  • The core is surrounded by a silicate mantle there are tectonic and volcanic activity in the core the core is made of metallic iron and nickel and sulfur.
  • There is water under the crust of mars the crust is made of volcanic rock
  • The mars mantle is composed of peridotite the mantle is made of basalt.


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  • The surface of mars has been shaped by plate tectonics huge crustal plates pull apart and smash together .
  • Olympus mons is a volcano on mars and its the largest volcano in the SOLAR SYSTEM.
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  • Mars is known as the red planet because iron minerals in the martian soil 
  • Soil has nutrients such as magnesium,sodium,potassium,chloride

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  • Mars has two moons there names are phobos and Deimos. 
  • Mars doesn't have rings only gas giants have rings.
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