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MARS! The Red Planet.
Paperback
Series: Interesting Facts for Kids by Alex Ishikawa
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Blast off to the Red Planet - the rustiest, most explored world in the solar system!
Packed with real, kid-friendly facts and bright, colorful illustrations, Mars! The Red Planet takes curious readers ages 10-12 on a cosmic tour of Earth's most famous neighbor. It's a freezing red desert of towering volcanoes, canyons that stretch across a continent, planet-wide dust storms, and two tiny potato-shaped moons - and every page is a new discovery.
Perfect for young space fans, budding astronomers, and any kid who loves science, this engaging nonfiction reader makes learning about the solar system genuinely fun - and it's written just right for confident independent readers and the classroom.
Inside this space book for kids, young explorers will discover:
- Why Mars is red - and why its sky is orange by day but glows blue at sunset
- Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the whole solar system
- Valles Marineris, a canyon long enough to stretch across a continent
- The search for water - ancient riverbeds, icy poles, and buried ice
- Phobos and Deimos, Mars's two tiny lumpy moons
- The robot explorers - from Mariner 4 and the Vikings to Curiosity, Perseverance, and the Ingenuity helicopter, the first aircraft to fly on another planet
- Whether life could ever have existed there - and if people might one day visit
- A fun end-of-book quiz and an easy-to-use glossary
With clear text, eye-catching pictures, and only true facts, this is a fantastic STEM gift for birthdays, holidays, and classrooms - and a great addition to any young reader's space and astronomy collection.
Scroll up and grab your copy - the adventure to the Red Planet starts now!
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