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Is mars a inner or outer planet?

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Mercury: Mercury is the smallest planet in our Solar System and also the closest. It rotates slowly (59 Earth days) relative to the time it takes to rotate around the sun (88 days). The planet has no moons, but has a tenuous atmosphere (exosphere) containing oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium and potassium. read more

Mars is a terrestrial planet, so it's considered to be inner. However Mars is also superior because it is further away from the sun than the Earth. read more

Mars is an inner planet, as is Mercury, Venus, and Earth. read more

The inner planets (in order of distance from the sun, closest to furthest) are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. After an asteroid belt comes the outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The interesting thing is, in some other planetary systems discovered, the gas giants are actually quite close to the sun. read more

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