Mars Direct

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…

space and the colonization of other planets. “The Gemini and Apollo programs were child’s play in comparison to the threat of human life posed by long duration, deep space missions to such places as Mars” (Launius 124). Humans do not truly know what can happen during long term space travel. Traveling to Mars by spaceship will take 3-6 months. We have never had a human travel that far of a distance away from Earth for that amount of time. Setbacks could occur, but only by pushing the bounds of…

we get from it. For example, when the Moon is full it could be up to twenty percent brighter than it normally would be. The most popular theory of how the Moon was formed is that the Moon was once part of a larger celestial body, about the size of Mars. During the formation of the Earth, the celestial body collided with the Earth, causing debris to fly into orbit, which then slowly came together and made up a celestial object, the Moon. The Moon has a lot of iron content, both the inner and…

In our solar system, there are the nine planets. They are Mercury, Venus, earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. These planets was formed when clouds of gas and dust collapsed with gravity in space. Earth is the third planet from the sun. Throughout the solar system, Earth is the unique place where life can exist. This planet contains atmosphere with oxygen, with lands and oceans on its surface. The ocean covers roughly 70 percent of the Earth's surface and besides that 30…

NASA was able to repurpose and adapt to rapidly deteriorating conditions allowing the astronauts to return to Earth safely. The Martian by Andy Weir, fast forwards to a futuristic mission in which the protagonist, Mark Watney, becomes stranded on Mars. While he and the crew were trying to evacuate their base during a sandstorm, an antenna pierces Mark’s suit and throws him backwards. With Mark presumably dead and their escape being time sensitive, the crew is forced to evacuate leaving him…

Dante voyages through paradise in nine spheres, there order is the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Fixed Stars. This is a trip through heaven's journey towards the vision of God in the Empyrean, a realm of pure light (The World of Dante). The sun is the home for the theologians and wise men (Digital Dante). At this time, the sun was seen as a symbol of intellectual power and illumination, it could even represent God. This “planet” was perfect for the theologians and wise men…

Researchers have been discovering new moons as well as making new technology, but the sense of adventure and inspiration we had then is gone (Kavanagh). Mars is not the only plans for the space program, but it is the closest step we can accomplish shortly (Chen). Sometimes we forget how much the technology has progressed since the last space race. They made it to the moon within a decade with the technology…

Given the incredible advancements in technology in the past decade alone, it’s only natural that mankind would look to the final frontier once again. While considering the question of Mars colonization, we, as a society must consider cost factors of commuting and terraforming. The question of funding arises, exposing an even bigger dilemma of international cooperation. The factors bolstering humans to colonize are balanced by ethical and economic tethers that keep us here on Earth. Before we…

their missions through space and walking among other planets. While it is an exciting thought that humanity may be living on another planet, such as Mars, one day, it may not be as easy as society thinks when we finally make it there. An experiment was done by NASA to simulate what it would be like for a group of people to live on terrain similar to Mars (Cornet, 2015). “A major component of the…

In this class, Core 1, we have touched on many different subjects. First, we discussed about the origins of the universe in module number one. Afterwards, we touched upon the origins of life in module number two. Currently, we talked over the origins of societies and culture in module number three. Even though the three different modules all seem to be broad and different, I believe they have an important similarity, and that is classification. As humans, we have the tendency to classify…