what if Earth and Mars switched places?

What is Mars?!

Mars NASA SpaceX all these companies are saying that they want to go to Mars and the timelines are coming up pretty quick some people saying 2025 2030 saying we have a civilization by 2050 but there's a problem

not a lot of people understand what Mars is really like so let's figure that out first of all Mar is actually pretty small it's much smaller than Earth being about half the diameter of Earth and it weighs about 1/4 of how much earth weighs it's still really heavy because earth is pretty massive but it's only 1/4 which makes it actually the second smallest planet with Mercury being the smallest if you lived on Mars you would actually weight 38%

less than you do now so for example if you weight 200 pounds on earth you've weighed a little over 70 pounds on Mars which would make it nice you could probably dunk the basketball pretty easily but then if you have all that clunky astronaut gear and actually probably weighed down some but if you think about how how small Mars is compared to earth you actually have a land area that is a little bit smaller than how much land is on Earth since most of earth is actually 2/3 of earth is covered by water you have only a small portion of it that can be explored by land and since Mars is much smaller than Earth you have only 83 percent difference between how much land can be explored on earth or how much land can be explored on Mars speaking of land on Mars Manas is actually home of the solar system's largest volcano it is 370 miles in diameter and 13 miles high stretching so far that it almost reaches outside of the Martian atmosphere now put that in the retrospect Mount Everest is only 5 miles high above sea level that is so when you compare 13 miles versus 5 miles

and it's a volcano that's a pretty big difference and something that would be really cool to explore on Mars now when we talk about the atmosphere of Mars it's actually very very thin it's less than 1% of that up here on earth so for example if you blew up a balloon just a normal balloon and you took that same balloon all the way over to Mars and let it go it wouldn't only just expand a little bit like you might expect it to do in a hot day here on

earth but it actually instantaneously pop just because there's so much pressure on the inside and so little pressure in the Martian atmosphere that would grow it would try to grow a hundred times bigger and the balloon would just blow up now when you think about how far Mars is away it's actually a hundred forty-one million miles away from the Sun and because of that it makes the Sun appear much smaller in the night sky and since it's much farther and since it's much much smaller in the night sky it also makes Mars much colder

the average temperature that is experienced on Mars is around negative 67 degrees Fahrenheit which sounds pretty chilly but I can get even lower to negative 153 degrees Fahrenheit which is the lower range of what Mars

experiences with that being said some of the hottest days that it's experienced has been sent 68 degrees Fahrenheit positive so it's actually pretty nice on a nice day on a hot day but on a cold day could get really chilly really fastnow again to put that in retrospect negative 128 point 6 degrees is the coldest that Earth has ever experienced and that's been an Antarctica so there's a major difference between the negative 153 degrees and the negative 126 degrees one of the last things that's interesting about Mars is it's actually really close to the asteroid belt and because of it it has two moons but these moons aren't like the moons that we think of these moons are actually pretty small asteroids and it's been thought that these actually came from the hash

foot belt and when Mars got too close to them its gravity actually picked them up and surrounded them around there surrounded about a Martian orbit so it's not like the moon that you think of in the sky that's this big massive thing but instead is just a relatively small rock and lastly if you think about a day on Mars versus a day on earth a day on Mars is actually about the same time how long it takes to go about its axis once is only 40 minutes longer than what it is here on earth but when you look at in a year that's a big difference it's

actually 600 eighty-seven days for the for Mars Earth days for Mars to go around the Sun and that's might be a problem for astronauts that go there because that means they only experience Mars birthdays only once

every 1.9 years which means if you lived on Mars you'd only have a birthday about half the amount of time that you do have her which wouldn't be fun but maybe they'd have half birthdays or something like that or they would still celebrate the earth birthday but that would be a lot of calendar stuff to figure out so that's all the information I have on Mars