On October 10 , 2015 the Space exploratory in Maui Hawaii found that on October 30, a “Halloween” asteroid would fly by. It is said that it is not a threat but it is the closest and asteroid has come to earth since 1999.It will still be 300,000 miles away from earth however and it will be following and orbit similar to the moons. The asteroid’s official name is TB145 but many just call it “The Great Pumpkin”. NASA is also now tracking the asteroid and studying it and are planning to use many instruments
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The air on Mars — what there is of it — is leaking away, about half a pound a second sputtering into space, scientists announced on Thursday. The planet’s early atmosphere is thought to have been as thick as or thicker than Earth’s today, and even over the 4.5-billion-year history of the solar system, that slow leak would not explain how it atrophied to its current wisps. But new readings from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission — Maven, for short — show that when Mars is hit by
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Natalie Johnson ESS 102 Road to Mars Today was the ninety ninth day of the ESS Enterprises’ three year mission to Mars. Lieutenant Kimberly Janeway was bored. She had been floating about the cabin checking her hourly logs on various instrument panels. With seven of nine panels to go, she was running out of motivation. It was hard to keep going, performing the same tasks day in and day out, looking at the same people over and over. She liked her crew members well enough, they had become like family
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Many scientists believe it would be possible to maintain a permanent human presence on Mars or the Moon. On the other hand, conditions on Venus are so extreme and inhospitable that maintaining a human presence there would be impossible. First, atmospheric pressure at Venus' surface is at least 90 times greater than the pressure at Earth’s surface. This means that a force of 100 kilograms is pressing down on every square centimeter of surface. All spacecraft that have landed on Venus have been crushed
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The following will be an excerpt from the sci-fi novel I’m writing. A little exposition first. (The year is 2500, humanity discovered alien life on mars in 2050 and they allowed us to join a galactic federation of planets, greatly advancing our technology. I am the protagonist, after volunteering to be cryogenically frozen until 2500. I changed my name, joined the navy, the crew mutinied and as the man who slew the captain in single combat, I was made the new captain. This takes place some time later
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A group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica by the nearly-ended winter, discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice, where it crashed twenty million years before. They try to thaw the inside of the spacecraft with a thermite charge, but end up accidentally destroying it when the ship's magnesium hull is ignited by the charge. However, they do recover the alien pilot from the ancient ice, which the researchers believe was searching for heat when it was frozen. Thawing revives the alien
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colony on Mars has begun as I, Robert Holm, lead the colony to a stable beginning. This colony we will call Eden. We have made all the preparations as the Mars orbit around the sun comes in close to the Earth on its own orbit. For a situation as ours, finding a spot at Mars is going to take utilizing the environment around us. The plan is to start out with a few tons of shelf stable food and set up an agriculture center on the colony. As we have identified a large amount of ice water on Mars we will
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The novel “The Andromeda Strain” revolves around a bio-weapon that makes its way to Earth via a crashed military satellite. In the book, a satellite originally intended to gather upper-atmosphere microorganisms for exploitation as a bio-weapon comes crashing down near the town of Piedmont, Arizona, killing all but 2 inhabitants of Piedmont almost instantaneously. The United States Military authorizes protocol Wildfire, which is intended to investigate biological threats with an extraterrestrial origin
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The stories in The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury are arranged in a notably singular way. They do not have many characters or events in common, but they are all united by the setting of Mars and, more importantly, the overshadowing influence of imperialistic governments. From the first time humans set foot on Mars to the time they finally leave it, the stories of humans and Martians are all affected by imperialism. Through this persistent backstage influence, Bradbury makes it clear that imperialistic
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The Red Planet, Mars, is a rich destination for scientific discovery. For years scientists and astronauts have studied the formation and atmosphere on Mars through comparisons with Earth, in hope of one day making it habitable for humans. By the end of 2039, NASA aims to put humans on Mars and through future exploration uncover evidence of life, answering one of the “fundamental mysteries of the cosmos” . However this journey requires technology specifically designed to adjust to the alternate atmosphere
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