Quiz: Test your knowledge of Mars

Name the two moons of Mars?

	A: Europa and Ganymede

	B: Rachel and Phoebe

	C: Deimos and Phobos

What is the name of the British-led effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission to be launched in June 2003?

	A: Beagle 1

	B: Beagle 2

	C: Beagle 3

What is the common name of the meteorite found in 1984, in Victoria Land, Antarctica that was thought to contain microscopic bacteria fossils from Mars?

	A: Los Angeles Meteorite

	B: Allen Hills Meteorite

	C: Zagami Meteorite

Percival Lowell, an early authority on Mars, said that canal-like channels on the surface of Mars

	A: Were caused by earthquakes on the surface of Mars?

	B: Were built by intelligent beings?

	C: Remained when the ocean bed dried?

If you weighed 100 pounds on earth. How much would you weigh on Mars?

	A: 38 pounds

	B: 68 pounds

	C: 98 pounds

How long would it take (in NASA's current mission scenario) to travel from Earth to Mars, explore the planet and return home.

	A: 3 months

	B: 2.5 years

	C: 5 years

What is the highest point on Mars?

	A: Hellas Planitia

	B: Olympus Mons

	C: Valleris Marineris

How long is a Mars year?

	A: 687 days

	B: 522 days

	C: 365 days

What was the first spacecraft to Mars in 1965 called?

	A: Mariner 4

	B: Mars 1

	C: Sputnik 29

Compared to the Earth is Mars

	A: Bigger?

	B: Smaller?

	C: The same size?