“The Martian” accurately represented life on Mars. The details of the landscape and environment, strategies used to travel in space, and calculations involved in space travel were definite and factual. The depiction of the atmosphere and environment of Mars was accurate. There were several impact craters and red soil that was inhospitable to life on the planet. Mars also has unpredictable weather; Ares 3 had to have an emergency evacuation of Mars because of an extremely violent sandstorm that
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Martian Chronicles, Mr. K manipulates his wife by using other Martians on planet Mars to kill the astronaut Mr. York, who comes from planet earth. Mr. K manipulates his wife Mrs. K once he is informed about Ylla’s dream she continues to have nightly about Mr. York the astronaut. Mr. K eventually becomes annoyed of the fact his wife enjoys having these dreams of a strange man
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Genre classifies movies, novels, music and literature of similar style in the same category. Genre acts as a navigation tool to guide the audience and readers to select literature according to their preference. Science fiction is the most relevant genre of the 21st century because it contains a message regarding the advances society is making in the fields of science and technology. It is a genre that has its roots in the 19th century where new inventions made the audience curious about the future
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Should Humans Colonize Mars? The article starts off by saying that Mars is inhospitable, and it would require recycling of water, air, and other “life systems” to sustain life on Mars. There is a wish to “terraform” the red planet, making it hospitable for human life, but it would essentially be contaminating the planet. “A human presence on Mars will inevitably change the environment.” the authors goes on to say. Plans are to drop supply depots between the Earth and Mars and on Mars’ surface. The author
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In the article” Cassini Seeks Insights to Life in Plumes of Enceladus, Saturn’s Icy Moon”, Dennis Overbye talks about the possibility of life on one of Saturn’s moons. He talks about how water is the key to life and this moon is full of ice so if the conditions were met there could be life on this moon. When one of these observational flights passed by Enceladus one time they saw tiger stripes near the south pole of Enceladus. These tiger stripes are cracks on the ice where water is squirting out
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into account. With exploration and eventually expansion as a top priorities, missions using crew exploration vehicles designed with both safety and reusability in mind are the most efficient ways to develop the space program, and to eventually reach Mars and beyond. Before the start of human colonization, it is important to collect as much information as possible about the environment to give humans the best prospects to adapt swiftly. The best way to accomplish this is sending an exploratory mission
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The Lunar Prospector In 1992, a science group from NASA addressed some of the many unsolved scientific riddles facing the lunar science community. These riddles includes questions about evolution of the moon, its atmospheric constituents and earth moon system. The Lunar Prospector mission was launched in 1998 from Cape Canaveral using a Lockheed Martin LMLV2 launch vehicle. The Lunar Prospector mission designers selected the following objectives as their primary science requirements for the mission
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taken notes during the movie called “The Mars Generation”. In this summery we will talk about Nasa’s goals like when they went to the moon, and the apollo missions. You will read about Nasa’s history and mistakes like when shuttles are being launched but they go the wrong way. Also you will read about some of the most known people in Nasa like Wernher von Braun, and Neil Armstrong. Today Nasa is currently trying to find a way to make a new civilization on Mars because son he earth will no longer be
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Sometime it’s simply brings out the finer qualities of humanity. In Ridley Scott’s (Alien, Prometheus) latest directing effort, based on the novel (of the same name) by Andy Weir, Matt Damon stars as Mark Watney – an astronaut that’s stranded on Mars alone when his crew is forced to abandon him after an accident leads them to believe he’s dead. But, it turns out Mark is very much alive. N.A.S.A. also believes Mark to be decease, although
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Mars, also known as the “Red Planet”, is Earth’s closest neighbor, which is 225 million kilometers away. A trip to Mars would take 4-6 months. If a trip to Mars is successful as planned, the human would face many different challenges, and troubles. A number of troubles include that they would have to wear a full body suit because Mars's atmosphere is too thin, nevertheless humans would also face the possibility of running low on supplies, while it is possible to grow food with the soil on Mars (desolate)
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