The Solar System
| Mercury
| Venus
| Earth
| Mars
| Ceres
| Jupiter
Saturn
| Chiron
| Uranus
| Neptune
| Pluto
The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
| Quaoar
| Eris
| Sedna
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It's about one-ninth as massive as the Earth , and about 1.5 times as far away from the Sun. This means that going outside without a spacesuit is not a good idea - the atmosphere is 100 times as thin as Earth's and it's poisonous, so you'd immediately suffocate.
The temperature is well below zero most of the time so your body would soon be frozen solid. And if that's not enough, the surface is totally dry and barren and composed of chemicals which would quickly decompose flesh, and, since there's no ozone layer, high-intensity ultraviolet radiation would add the finishing frying touch.
Is there a plus side? Yes - the weaker Martian gravity. Some space scientists think that staying indoors and having sex in this weaker gravity would
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