Alpha Dom
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1. Only 16 of the 39 Mars missions have been successful.
2. The tallest mountain known in the solar system is on Mars i.e., Olympus Mons.
3. The Sun looks about half its size half it does from Earth when seen from Mars.
4. With the exception of Earth, Mars is the most hospitable to life.
5. Mars has seasons like Earth, but they last twice as long.
6. Mars does not have a magnetic field.
7. The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, were written about in the book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by author Jonathan Swift, 151 years before they were discovered.