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To: SunkenCiv

How then can it have 1/6 of Earth gravity?


42 posted on 12/27/2007 1:54:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Hey, believe whatever you want. Here’s something for you to puzzle over, Mars is about ten percent the mass of the Earth, and yet...

http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html

“The average pressure on the surface of Mars is only about 7 millibars (less than 1% of Earth’s), but it varies greatly with altitude from almost 9 millibars in the deepest basins to about 1 millibar at the top of Olympus Mons.”


43 posted on 12/27/2007 7:18:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 23, 2007)
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