Colonization of Mars

A feature identifiable through my telescope is the Mare Tranquillitatis or The Sea of Tranquility. Once thought to be an ocean on the Moon. According to NASA, its equatorial position and smooth fields of basaltic lavas was ideal for the first manned lunar landing. Mare Tranquillitatis has a diameter of proximally 873km. When view from Earth, it appears dark this is because the crater has been flooded with mare basalts. Mare Crisium (the sea of Crises), a “nectarine basin (about 3.9 billion…

Nasa’s Viking project found its place in US history when it became the first American mission to make it to the surface of Mars. Two of the same spaceships were built, each containing an orbiter and a lander. Th spacecraft’s both flew together when they entered the orbit of Mars. The landers separated and the began the decent to the surface of the rusty red planet known as Mars. Viking 1 touched down in the southern hemisphere while Viking 2 lander made it way to Utopia Planitea. Other than…

the area of where Mars orbits and had yet to be formed. Jupiter probably stopped moving inwards as of the pull of Saturn as like Jupiter Saturn was closer to the centre of the Solar System so it had more effect on Jupiter. As Jupiter travelled inwards it gently nudged the Asteroid belt essentially switching places with it, and then as Jupiter went further out it encountered an area of icy objects and pushed many of them into the Asteroid belt. The evidence behind this theory is Mars itself,…

Courage is doing something even if it frightens someone. All the men from earth had courage. To start with, that men kept going to Mars; this showed courage because they know that the crew before them had something bad happen. Also, they were going to a plant millions of miles away from Earth to see if the there was any life form on Mars. Nathaniel York was the first to go to Mars, after him was Captain Williams and his crew. Williams and his crew went to Mrs. Ttt, who is the first Martian they…

In Georgia, sixth graders enter middle school with little information about astronomy they learned from fourth grade. Students come to school with misconceptions they have made from previous knowledge or exposure to other resources. A teacher is supposed to address these misconceptions the students have and to change their perception. For the subject of astronomy, there are many misconceptions the students have when studying modeling. Within the Moving Students Toward a More Accurate View of the…

Earth, Venus and Mars were subject to differing evolutionary processes in regards to their atmospheres. The current atmospheric composition of each of these planets also differs whereby Earth is dominated by nitrogen and oxygen whilst Venus and Mars are dominated by carbon dioxide (Rasool 1967, p.1466). This essay will examine the differences in the evolution of atmospheric conditions on Earth, Venus and Mars as well as their relative current atmospheric composition. Additionally, this essay…

Overall, the purpose of this lab is to find the ideal substance in which to fill the tires in a rover that will go into space ( Mars ). We tested the speed and total distance traveled for the control ball and the foam filled ball. For speed I thought the foam filled ball would go farther because it weighs more than the control ball, and for distance if the ball goes on the ramp, it will lose speed , and if it hits the speed bump then it will lose speed in total for both, reducing the total…

Going to Mars is a complete death trap. Though it may be awesome, people will die from lack of oxygen and food on Mars. The trip to Mars is dangerous because there is no food, no oxygen and there is radiation that has severe effects. Mars has low rates of cosmic radiation. Mice were sent up to Mars and they were there for six weeks. The mice couldn't remember specific events, times, or places. Cosmic Radiation snaps off crucial parts of the neurons in your brain, which creates Alzheimer's and…

1. How does the force of the Earth’s gravity 250 miles above the surface of the Earth compare to the force of gravity at the surface of the Earth? Is this surprising? The force of the Earth’s gravity 250 miles above has less pressure and less gravity because gravity pulls everything to the center of the Earth, so the farther the distance; the less gravity. The force of the Earth’s gravity 250 miles above the surface has about 90 percent of what the force of gravity is on Earth’s surface.…

Planetary Protection Rough Draft ESS 102 Jacob Berrigan For my Science fiction paper I will write about a routine mission to mars in the year 2040 to excavate mars because of the discovery of a vein of rare metals by an American mining company. In an effort to cut costs the company neglected to complete the abiotic protection procedures mandated by the government after returning to earth. The ship carries home a pathogen of which the human race has never seen. A sizeable percent of the…