Mars

Overview
Mars is the 2nd smallest planet and the 2nd smallest overall.

Discovery
Mars was discovered in ancient times. It was named Mars after the roman god of war. It was named that because of it's reddish color.

History
Mars is an interesting planet. It may have had life before earth, but probably a pluto sized object crashed into it. But it was possible after the collision that Mars still had life. When Earth had life for the first time, Venus and Mars had life too. But they didn't have life for long. Mars is now a dry dessert with some hints of water on it's surface.

Facts

 * If that theory about that impact, Mars may have been the first planet to sustain life.
 * It is the one of the only objects that has a nickname. Jupiter's moon Io's nickname is the pizza moon, Venus's nickname is Earth's twin and this one is the red planet.

It's moons
Mars has two asteroids for moons.

Phobos and Deimos