Essay on Life on Mars

impact on Earth; some are capable of even causing a global disaster. Asteroids are said to be leftover particles from when the solar system was formed. Early on, the beginning of Jupiter prevented any planetary bodies from forming in the gap between Mars and Jupiter, causing the small objects that were there to collide with each other and fragment into the asteroids seen today (Space.com). In the 1800's, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered what he thought to be a new planet. He named the asteroid Ceres…

Our NASA team is proposing an exploratory mission to the planet Pluto. Although the planet is very far away we have reason to believe that with the technology to get there and set up a base. We have done extensive research on this planet and strongly recommend that this mission is approved and carried out. One reason that this mission is essential to the development of NASA and the human race is the physical features of the land. Pluto is cold, but has 30% water ice and 70% rock material.…

the TEDTalk video, Let’s Not Use Mars as a Backup Planet by Lucianne Walkowicz, she makes use of several rhetorical devices such as: parallelism, imagery, simile, and metaphor in order to further her claim that is, people should take responsibility of the Earth rather than spending valuable time on making Mars a possible planet for people to move in, which will take hundred of years. Walkowicz makes use of parallelism to highlight the comparison between Earth and Mars. For instance, “though…

Introduction Mars colonization is a topic that has been brought to the attention of the media and of the public in recent years by aspirations made by companies such as SpaceX and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Several factors make it a topic worth discussing about, like concerns regarding the continuity of the human species and economical, technological and scientific worth of that endeavor. In this way, markets will suffer significant impacts once humans strive to…

The Martian is a novel written by Andy Weir. This book is the diary of a astronaut stranded on Mars, named Mark Watney; who consistently found ingenious solutions for the many problems he faced. Mark Watney was not left on Mars for any malicious reasons, but because of a series unfortunate of events, his fellow astronauts thought he was killed in a violent storm and had no choice but to leave him. This novel is in the science fiction genre and is absolutely thrilling from start to finish.…

high in the mountains probably were once covered in water for the planet of Mars. It is thought that billions of years ago a a giant lake could have been on Mars. On Mars there is a NASA Curiositym Rover . The rover is exploring Mars. It has found streams and ponds on the planet already. The reason there is so much interest in discovering if water ever existed on Mars is because the scientist will know if plant and life form ever existed there. The scientist have discovered a geometric…

The NASA website has archives of all missions ever performed by them. I chose some of the current missions such as Juno: mission to Jupiter, The International Space Station, And Curiosity mars rover. All Missions performed from NASA are costly, but all have very important reasons for those cost.The Juno spacecraft will for the first time peer below the dense cover of clouds to answer questions about the gas giant and the origins of our solar system. Juno's primary goal is to reveal the story of…

In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s story, “Under the Moons of Mars,” there are many instances of both fantasy and science fiction. When the narrator is describing things, he talks in a very scientific way. When describing a creature from Mars, he tells the reader, “the feet themselves were heavily padded… (which) is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars” (151). This is the way a scientist would talk about an animal, not the way a layperson tells someone about what they saw. The narrator also…

into the mist, the robe, the blue mask”(135). Although he wanted people from Earth to come and eat his hot dogs, it wasn’t possible because at the end of the chapter, the Earth caught on fire. This happened after the Martians came to give Sam half of Mars, and it was after Sam shot two innocent Martians. Sam was very scared of being all alone, except for his wife, which then resulted in a mental disorder. He kept thinking that thousands or Earthlings will come and enjoy his food, but that was…

Since the first close-up picture of Mars was obtained in 1965, there have been significant endeavours undertaken to explore the ‘Red Planet’ (National Geographic, n.d.). In particular, a number of successful missions have taken place over the last two decades and provided valuable information about Mars. 1996 - Mars Global Surveyor In 1996, the Mars Global Surveyor mission and the Mars Pathfinder mission were launched. The Mars Global Surveyor arrived at Mars on September 12 1997, becoming the…