It is also known that dust storms are prevalent and leaves the surface of Mars covered by a red haze. ... Mars also has no magnetic field. " Because the atmosphere of mars is so thin, wind velocities up to several hundred Km per hour are required to raise the dust particles during a dust storm, and these fast- moving particles erode structures with a sand-blasting effect " (Grolier, 1992). ... The poles of Mars are iced over and the temperature is about 160 - 170 degrees K. ...

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