Mars Exploration Rover

In a futuristic society, the earth is dying of blight while dust is destroying people’s homes. Cooper, a former NASA pilot, agrees to become part of a space odyssey in attempt to travel through a wormhole to another galaxy and find a habitable planet that would allow humans to escape Earth. Throughout the journey, Cooper constantly thinks about his family. His goal is to complete the mission in the least amount of time and return home. Cooper and his team are able to visit two planets while…

Summer Assignment The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, follows the adventures of the British Arthur Dent and Ford Perfect following the destruction of Earth. After hitching a ride on a nearby ship, Ford Perfect reveals that he is an alien editor for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a guide for intergalactic travelers, who was stranded on Earth. After being ejected into space, Arthur and Ford are picked up by Zaphod Beeblebrox, the cousin of Ford Perfect. Breeblebrox takes…

Samuel R Delany’s High Weir, is a story published in 1967. The story describes an expedition group that is stationed on Mars and how one of the memebers goes through a mental breakdown and experiences delusions. The story is narrated by the man himself and throughout the story, he himself starts questioning his sanity. High Weir takes the reader on a wild SF rollercoaster. Confusing the reader with the thoughts of the narrator and with the actual events taking place outside the narrators mind.…

scientifically accurate. The Martian chronicles the tales of Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut who was left stranded on Mars after his crew presumed he was dead. Mark Watney uses his engineering and botany skills as a means of surviving on the barren planet that is Mars. In Watney’s stay on Mars, he must determine how to make more food, how to make more water, and ultimately, how to got off of Mars. The Martian obtains its success from the book’s different points-of-view, the major theme of…

inviolable dignity of the individual human being is present throughout Ridley Scott’s film “The Martian.” In the film, NASA astronaut Mark Watney is on Mars with a team of other astronauts. The team gets caught in a huge storm, and Watney is swept away. His team thinks that he is dead, so they leave. Watney survived being swept away, but then he is stranded on Mars and has to survive. To survive, he applies the scientific method in creative ways. When NASA finds out that Watney is alive, they…

such times, isolation can cause humans to transform, experiencing changes in personality or attitude, usually for the worst. This type of isolation, however, is a novelty compared to the what astronaut Mark Watney underwent when he was abandoned on Mars, fifty million kilometers away from the nest human, in the novel The Martian by Andy Weir. After the HAB, the astronauts’ base in which they can maneuver without their spacesuits and Watney’s only sanctuary, explodes, Watney loses his ability to…

Introduction Statement of inquiry: The genre of a text determines the way the characters, setting and themes are constructed. Genre is a technique that is constantly used in all literature, such as music, films and art. Each piece of literature is put into a genre category. Such as Sci-Fi, drama, comedy and many more. The style of the literature determines what genre it is. Background Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) is a type of genre that is fiction based. It is…

The book, The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, begins with Cassie's Sullivan describing flashbacks in her life. She starts with small memories like her father gifting her a telescope and then shifts to thinking of how she wishes she was still the person she was before, the one that hadn't killed people, quite a dramatic change. So far in the book, I have read about the first three waves. The first wave destroys all the electronics on earth, the second destroys most of the world itself and the third one…

The Opportunity Rover and it’s twin the Spirit Rover received their names from a nine year old, Sofi Collis. She won the naming contest that NASA held (with help from Planetary Society and sponsorship from lego) to find a name for the rovers exploring Mars. Sofi Collis got adopted at the age of two. She came to live with her new family in Scottsdale, Arizona. "I used to live in an orphanage," Collis wrote in her winning essay. "It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the…

The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) is another base providing a suitable habitat for simulations and research (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). The geography at this isolated location in Hawaii is exceptionally similar to that on Mars. Additionally, synonymous with conditions on Mars, the area is largely clear of plants and animals (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). The soil near this Hawaiian base contains minerals also found in Martian…