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Katie Robbins Mountainside Middle School 6th grade ANSWER: Katie, scientists suspect that all the planets in our solar system formed at the same time – about 4.5 billion years ago. So we study Mars to see why its history is different from Earth – why over 4.5 billion years they ended up looking so different.
