Mercury is a very rocky planet. It is heavily cratered and is scattered with boulders and pulverized dust. Mercury has been geologically dead for a long time according astronomers. The planet has no signs of any type of weather such as clouds, rivers, and dust storms. The planet of Mercury closely resembles Earth's Moon. Mercury's surface shows intercrater plains, basins, smooth plains, craters, and tectonic features. Many of the smooth plains located on Mercury seem to be a result from flood volcanism
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H : La technologie avance avec une vitesse rafolante. Dans la mission Deep Space 1, on a testé 12 technologies très avancées. Nous allons, aujourd’hui vous approfondir sur cette mission. Alors, c’était la NASA qui était responsable de ce projet. J : La sonde spatiale Deep Space 1 fut lancée de Cap Canaveral le 24 Octobre 1998 à l'aide d'une fusée Delta II. En septembre 1999, les chercheurs de la Nasa estimaient que Deep Space 1 avait triomphalement rempli tous ses objectifs. Mais la sonde intéressait
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history as an embarrassment because of his theory about canals on Mars and how they might have been a home to intelligent aliens. During that time, it was reasonable to assume Lowell’s theory was preposterous because of the lack of information about Mars. But since the recent discovery of water and our increased knowledge about Mars, Lowell’s argument appears to be a potential source in our search for other worlds. Lowell’s theory about Mars canals should be reviewed and reworked, because it may lead us
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the fictional and factual about Mars that the work Nasa and others have done exploring Mars and moving it forward into the 2030s. This is a time when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface to explore. Although the action takes place 20 years in the future, NASA is already developing many of the technologies that appear in the film. Mark Watney is an astronaut who is left on Mars by the Ares crew when a dust storm happens on Mars which is an actual factorial possibility
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NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. They landed on Mars January 3 and January 24 PST, 2004 (January 4 and January 25 UTC, 2004). The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Primary among the mission's scientific goals is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks
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Abstract: The evidence for past life on Mars is supported by Steve Ruff and Jack Farmer’s findings about silica deposits on Mars, the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, and evidence of past water valleys. Silica deposits from Mars are very similar to deposit formations here on Earth, which were made from biotic processes. Furthermore, Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) gives evidence of organic buildups native to ancient Mars. Lastly, valleys on Mars’ surface has evidence of flowing water, shown in
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A key theme in The Martian by Andy Weir is to persevere through difficult situations, even when you feel that you have no hope. “Of course, I don’t have any plan for surviving four years on one year of food. But one thing at a time here. For now, I’m well fed and have a purpose: fix the damn radio.” -Mark Watney (page 11) This reveals Mark’s ability to take one issue at a time and not give up hope. He knows the odds are against him, but he stays optimistic, tackling issue by issue. “Remember
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In the late 20th century, we began to explore Mars. These studies were not conducted through a telescope, but the much more advanced technology of interplanetary probes. In 1964, lead by multiple prior failures, two unmanned missions to Mars, the Mariner 3 and 4, were launched. The Mariner 3, was a battery-powered spacecraft designed to make scientific measurements of, and to obtain photographs of the planet's surface and transmit these to Earth. The mission was predicted to last about 8 months
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to the planet Earth. It is located in about 500 light-years from Earth and sails through its habitable zone, resulting to potentially watery surface. The planet was put outside the edge of the habitable zone from the fact that in only gets about one-third of the energy from its star compared to Earth. Though researchers find a potentially habitable planet we still need to surmount the problem of getting there or surviving the trip. (Anonymous, 2007) stated that we still don’t have the idea on
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I found it interesting to see how the author incorporated this real-life event that happened on October 30, 1938, where H.G Wells did a broadcast on the radio called, “War of the worlds” that caused chaos to break loose. It is important to note that this was just a skit and Martians had never touched earth, so the green person that Dona sees is really a normal New Yorker not an alien. Through the green person making a face when seeing the lentils, the author shows us that people are not willing to
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