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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there alien life on Mars? This tired, old question has been thrown around every scientific circle one can imagine and it has certainly come a long way. It started out as a mere idea. Perhaps an inspiration for scientists to haplessly ponder upon or the idea for some Sci-Fi novel. Now, that question is too close to being answered. NASA has come so far and now, they are just a few strategic steps away to giving us the news we all want to hear. NASA KNOWS THAT LIFE ONCE EXISTED ON MARS What NASA does
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Mercury: Surface Geology Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is covered in craters, like, there are craters everywhere. There's also a lot of dust and boulders all over the place. In short, Mercury is like if you go fill an empty fish tank with rocks and sand, then dig some holes in there. Mercury has a magnetic field that's about 1/100th that of Earth's, it was discovered by Mariner 10, a Muggle space contraption. The field is generated from inside the planet, just like with Earth, as opposed
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In the lab assignment this week, we were to choose two space missions to research. After exploring the two missions, we need to tell about what they did and what we have learned from them. There are so many missions that have given us great discoveries. However, after I looked into several of them I decided on the Kepler and Galileo missions. Both of these missions were extraordinary and gave astronomers many new insights into the universe we adore. First, we look at the Kepler Mission. Kepler spacecraft
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