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Mars is the fourth farthest planet from the sun behind earth and infront of Jupiter. Mars is actually the second smallest planet in the solar system. Mars was named after a Roman god of war. Mars has a radious of 2,110 miles. Its surface area is 55.91 million sqaure miles. The distance between Mars and the sun is 141,600,000. Which is really far away from the sun.