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Red Planet Aims
- To introduce the planet Mars: its axial tilt and orbit around the Sun; its climate and seasons.
- To examine the similarities and differences between Mars and Earth.
- To demonstrate how space missions to Mars have improved our understanding of its terrain, geological features and atmosphere.
- To examine evidence that Mars once possessed oceans and resembled Earth; and the processes which could have transformed it into a freezing desert.
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