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A Marte se le suele llamar el \u2018Planeta Rojo\u2019 porque se ve en el cielo como una estrella de color rojo anaranjado. Ese color llev\u00f3 a los antiguos griegos y romanos a bautizarlo con el nombre de su dios de la guerra. Hoy en d\u00eda, gracias a las naves espaciales que lo han visitado, sabemos que el aspecto del planeta se debe al \u00f3xido presente en las rocas marcianas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Marte es el cuarto planeta desde el Sol. Orbita alrededor del Sol a una distancia media de 228 millones de kil\u00f3metros, la mitad de la distancia a la que se encuentra la Tierra, por lo que a los visitantes humanos les resultar\u00eda muy fr\u00edo. Aunque los veranos cerca del ecuador pueden ser bastante c\u00e1lidos, la temperatura media es de 63 grados Celsius bajo cero, similar a la de los inviernos en la Ant\u00e1rtida. Las noches tambi\u00e9n son g\u00e9lidas.<\/p>\n

Los primeros humanos en Marte tendr\u00e1n que enfrentarse a otros problemas. El aire es 100 veces menos denso que en la Tierra y, en su mayor parte, est\u00e1 formado por di\u00f3xido de carbono. Los exploradores humanos tendr\u00e1n que usar m\u00e1scaras de ox\u00edgeno y trajes especiales cada vez que salgan de sus casas selladas.<\/p>\n

Las violentas tormentas marcianas pueden levantar nubes de polvo y algunas veces estas nubes se desplazan velozmente por todo el planeta, ocultando la superficie.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mars is often called the ‘Red Planet’ because it appears in the sky as an orange-red star. The colour caused the ancient Greeks and Romans to name it after their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2003\/08\/hubble_s_close_encounter_with_mars2\/17867008-3-eng-GB\/Hubble_s_close_encounter_with_Mars.jpg","esa_banner_description":"","esa_banner_credit":"NASA\/ESA, J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI)","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2003\/08\/Hubble_s_close_encounter_with_Mars2","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[62,10,13,11,12],"tags":[2],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploration","category-learn","category-life-in-space","category-our-universe","category-planets-and-moons","tag-background-article"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}