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Orbiting the Planet - Mars
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Orbiting the Planet - Mars
This series of caches is an attempt at showing the scale of our solar system. The Sun, or Sol, is the centre of our known system, and all bodies within orbit it, from the planets, asteroids, comets to the hundreds of dwarf planets. The Sun is MASSIVE, with a diameter of 1.39 million kilometres!
The dome of the defunct Planet Hollywood restaurant in Niagara Falls, Canada will represent the Sun. The Planet Hollywood dome is approximately 24m. Using this scale caches have been placed at appropriate distances away to represent the distance from the Sun. The Planet Hollywood dome/Sun is at 43.093046 and -79.070791 (right near the Rainbow Bridge).
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury. In English, Mars carries a name of the Roman god of war, and is often referred to as the "Red Planet" because the reddish iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance that is distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.
Mars is 6779 km in diameter, only 53% the size of Earth. Geologically, Mars is dead, with little internal convection, and almost no magnetic field. This means the planet is not protected from interstellar radiation at the surface. This is a big impediment to any attempts at long term visits to Mars.
At the scale of the Planet Hollywood dome representing our Sun, Mars would only be 12 cm in diameter and it would lie 3.93km from our Sun.
As with all activity near the Niagara River, use utmost caution. Cache is reachable with your feet on LEVEL GRASSY GROUND. NO embankment crawling please.
All caches are small plastic containers containing log sheets only. Please bring your own writing utensil.
Other caches in this series:
Mercury GC7W2GD
Venus GC7W0RH
Earth GC7W2GG
Jupiter GC7WP1A
Saturn GC7W0QY
Uranus GC7W0R6
Neptune GC7W0R8
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ner lbhe srrg fgnaqvat ba n phg qbja gerr gehax? Lbh ner evtug jurer lbh jnag gb or.
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