Exploration of Mars

In the realm of television characters having grand adventures while navigating outer space have captivated audiences for decades. Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) certainly help birth one of sci-fi’s most memorable franchises and gave a name to fandom which would also start a standard for fans of anything and everything. Firefly (2002-2003) debuted on television screens many years later as a sci-fi offering that also mingled with facets of the Western genre. Both Star Trek and Firefly…

fiction novel whose readers will constantly wonder: Will Watney make it out alive? Or will NASA just recover a frozen corpse? Astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded on Mars and presumed dead, will be faced with life threatening situations that will entice readers through the whole story. Watney will have to figure out how to survive on Mars: what to eat, how to communicate, how to get water, and how to maintain a human-friendly environment. This novel focuses on survival. Challenges cannot be…

after Earth was destroyed in a massive war. The main character, Darrow, grew up in a mining colony, on Mars, and is a "Red." In the society of the Solar System, each person is given specific color, based on the class that the person is. Darrow's class, the Red class, is considered to be the lowest class in the Solar System, as the Red's jobs are to mine Helium-3, which is a valuable resource on Mars. Darrow, like many other Reds, is driven by the Laurel. The Laurel is a reward given to the…

Body paragraph 1 – Plot The story takes place in the Sahara Desert where the narrator meets the little prince who is out on an adventure after he gets tired of his weariness in his own planet. Other places that function as setting are asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328 and 330 which the little prince visited before he got to earth. No particular time is mentioned as to when the story happens. But, the narrator says it occurs six years after his plane crashed in the desert. The story takes place in a…

Ratchet & Clank Teaser 1: Strap into the boots of Ratchet and his robotic companion in Clank in an epic interplanetary adventure! Teaser 2: Join Ratchet & Clank, Captain Qwark, and his friends to fight the Blargs and the evil Chairman Alonzo Drek. Teaser 3: Play as Ratchet and his tiny robot friend Clank and endeavor to save the galaxy from Chairman Drek and his Warbots and Blarg minions. Play the game which is based on the animated film which in turn is based on the old PS2 game. Use a…

Mars was once a big planet filled with water, before it turned into the barren wasteland the world knows it as (Northon). Astronaut Mark Watney is trying to get home from Mars, while the people on Earth are trying to rescue him to get him home , too. Although they are trying, he’s all alone on the worst desert imaginable. He’s stuck all by himself, fighting to get to talk to Earth, fighting to come home. The Martian has very many interesting elements, just like the author, Andy Weir. The Martian…

caffeine pills, the Astronaut Mark Watney goes through many morechallanges than this, in this fantastic book, The Martian. Mark Watney was as a man of many talents. He was a good survivor, and can survive many would-be fatal disasters. This planet, Mars, uncolonized, and only partially discovered, makes Mark face many challenges. In the end, the reader will be surprised that Mark is still even alive. That is, if he is still alive. But most importantly, the reader needs to take some lessons from…

by George W. Bush twice, once in 2001 to join a twelve-member commission where he studied the Future of the US Aerospace industry and second, in 2002 to join a nine-member commission that focused on the implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy. Tyson later went on to publish many books such as “Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries”, “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”; and the most recent one, “Astrophysics for People In A Hurry”. In…

the atmosphere in Mars. I will need to bring really hot clothes and a ton of blankets. Since the gravity is different maybe heavy clothes. If possible a rover to drive around with. Don’t forget the water, there is water on Mars, but I don’t know if it is healthy enough to drink. Here are some facts about Mars. It has two moons.The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, some water vapor. They average day in Mars is 24 hours, and 37 minutes long. There are 687 Earth days in one Mars year. The tilt…

Ever since the beginning of our species, humans have been constantly moving from one land to another. The article, “Could Humans Actually Live on Mars,” raises the question about if we should be exploring other planets, specifically Mars. I personally believe that humans should be exploring other planets for a multitude of reasons such as we need to have some place to go after life on Earth becomes impossible and that health effects caused by space (i.e. skin cancer from solar flares or…