Being Done To Learn More About Mars

NASA has been around for 50 years, and they already sent over 200 missions into space. Each mission has its own discoveries and its own flaws. They all changed the way we look at our solar system, galaxy, and the universe. Some of them were successful and some were not. These missions have helped NASA a lot. Curiosity, Apollo 11, and Hubble have helped the world by discovering new things, making spinoffs, and successfully completing their mission.

On the other hand, the goals of Mars have been the study of possibility of life on the Mars planet. To do this, ''Curiosity'' a kind of robot, which has been the first habitant of Mars, is the mediator of studies and images. Other example of difference with Apollo mission is the Mars science laboratory, which was created to obtain samples that can be used for a future mission of return, such as rocks and soils, and certain materials found there (Wilson). Unlike the Moon, the planet Mars is a cold desert. It is half of the diameter of the Earth and has the same amount of dry land. Another difference is that Mars has seasons, volcanoes, canyons and the climate, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface. On the contrary of Apollo

Annotated Bibliography Works Cited “NASA's Journey to Mars.” Edited by Gary Daines, NASA, NASA, 1 Dec. 2014, www.nasa.gov /content/nasas-journey-to-mars/. This article is from the website controlled by NASA, the US government agency in charge of astronautical research and exploration. All of NASA’s activities are funded by federal taxes, and this website’s aim is to inform citizens about what the agency plans to do with that money. This article outlines NASA’s goals relating to Mars travels, including what technologies need to be developed, when the mission may occur, and why such travels are considered important.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two similar twin robotic rovers which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into its mission (NASA 2012). The rovers were thought to last 20 times longer as compared to its original design. As part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, the Mars Exploration Rover mission is a continuous multi-mission effort to study Mars as a possible habitation for past or present life and to look for signs of life as well as to prepare for human exploration. Primary objective of the Mars Exploration Rover mission is to explore and characterize a wide range of soils and rocks that possess clues or evidences to past water activity on Mars (NASA 2012).

These rovers have a lot that goes into them because they are not used for small tasks. Many tools are needed to be able to find out what scientists want to know. So, Curiosity is equipped with these tools. The rover weighs about 900 kilograms or 1984 pounds. Some of tools on board of Curiosity include 17 cameras, a mobile chemistry lab and a laser that is able to vaporize rocks plus 10 more tools. Everything we have done with these rovers has helped us figure out how we are one going to get to Mars and two what we are going to do and how we are going to survive when people go up

The Mars rover Curiosity is one the world’s most advanced space exploration robot ever built, being used to discover whether Mars is/was suitable for life while also studying the planet’s climate, biology, geology, geochemistry, planetary processes, and surface radiation. The data collected will also help future exploration missions, most importantly future human exploration missions.

The rover Curiosity, finally landed on mars August 6, 2012, it was launched November 26, 2011. Before NASA could be launched Curiosity, the rover it had to go through series of test, drop tests, pull test, drive test, load test, stress tests, and shorting tests. So scientists had to realize that Earth and Mars revolve around the sun at different rates meaning it takes Mars 686 earths days and the Earth 365 days. They did to figure out when Mars was closest to Earth. Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral. Stage one, it reaches space and the tip of the cone opens and fall off. During the second stage, a centuar engine starts placing the vehicle into obit. When everything is alined the second engine starts to bring it to mars. Once Curiosity is on Mars it will do tasks such as collecting rock, soil sampling and placing them on instruments in order to be analyzed. What goes into the rover (Siceloff, Steven. "Mars Rover Well-Equipped for Studies." NASA's John F. Kennedy

NASA has used both spacecr aft and robots to learn more about Mars. In 1965, Mariner 4 was the first NASA spacecraft to get a close look at the planet. In 1976, Viking 1 and Viking 2 were the first NASA spacecraft to land on Mars. They took pictures and explored the planet’s surface. Since then, more spacecraft have flown near or landed on Mars. They revealed Mars to be a barren world, without any signs of the life or civilizations people had imagined there. In 1971, Mariner 9 orbited Mars, mapping about 80 percent of the planet and discovering its volcanoes and

In 2011, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, the rover given name as Mars Curiosity, began to inspect the Martian rocks to conclude the geologic procedures that created them and to explore more about the present and past habitability of Mars. Among its findings is the first meteorite on the surface of the red planet. In September 2014, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission reached the red planet, making it the fourth nation to successfully enter orbit around

One large project that is being pursued is colonizing mars with a human population. This will mold the future and newer generations. It can make us question the future and what lies ahead. It has been said that it will take no more than 50 years to fulfill the colonization of mars.

It is an understatement to say that the Mars Exploration Rover mission is successful, as the findings that were uncovered during this mission was iconic as it helped identify many unknown questions of the planet, Mars. This mission that was carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA, which had employed two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to travel miles around the terrain of Mars to collect the data and findings, which would then transfer it back to Earth. This paper will discuss many challenges that the Mars Exploration Rover mission had encountered, whilst also highlighting through the findings and data, the many breakthroughs and achievements that had been made during the lifecycle of the project. Therefore, through analysing and evaluating the advancements and shortcomings of this mission, we can continually make improvements on the methods of space exploration and have a greater understanding of the past

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Secondly, innovative development technology one of positive effects for future human missions to explore Mars. Mission envolved develop teqnology that make astronauts able to land on surface’s Mars. According to NASA(2015) “ They include sensors to measure the atmosphere, cameras and a microphone, and at least two key ways to reach the surface of Mars with greater accuracy and less risk

One way that astronomy is an ongoing process is Mars. On November 6, 2011 NASA launched a rover all the way to Mars. The rover didn’t land until August 6, 2012. The reason NASA launched the rover is to figure out if there was ever a way for Mars to support microbial life. NASA is closer than ever to sending American astronauts to Mars. There are increasing challenges while humans are moving farther from Earth. NASA is managing these problems, however, as they occur. Living/working in space requires risks, but the journey to Mars is worth the risk. NASA will need to learn new ways of operating in space. The technological and operational challenges are classified in three different groups: Transportation, sending humans and cargo through space

Even with everything that has been learned much more is still to be discovered. With the exploration of Mars, this "potentially opening new scientific discoveries about the formation of our solar system and beginning life on Earth. "(Mahoney 2) With what is good there is always bad, with all benefits of exploring space there are still some risks to