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Essay On What Technology Does Nasa Use To Explore Mars

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Kaleb Sjulestad
Stem Paper: What technologies does Nasa use to explore Mars?
Due May 7th
The topic I chose to talk about and research was what technologies does Nasa use to explore mars. I hope to find out alot about mars and the technologies that Nasa uses to explore the planet.
There has been a bunch of missons to the great red planet Mars but the first missons were usually a failure exploding shortly after takeoff. There were many successes though like how the mariner missions and the Viking missions where Nasa finally landed a spacecraft on top of another planet. In this paragraph I will tell you all about these two sets of missons and there progression for the Nasa industry. These two sets of missions are gunna be the only one’s I talk about because I don’t want to bore all of you more then I have too. Mariner 3 and 4 were the most identical rockets designed to carry out the first fly overs of Mars. …show more content…

The distance from mars to earth is constantly changing though kinda like when there is two cars on a racetrack racing, Earth and Mars orbits the sun at different speeds, because earth is closer to the sun so its like it has the inside lane all the time so it has less distance to go. So the Earth orbits the sun alot more quickly then Mars does because Mars is alot farther away. So its like Mars is stuck in the outside lane making it longer for Mars to orbit the sun then earth. Plus the Earth and Mars both have elliptical orbits instead of having perfect circles. Elliptical orbits are when a small mass orbits a larger mass in space along a elliptical path, the large body being located at one of the ellipse center of activity. The two bodies with the same or similar mass orbiting by a common barycenter. A barycenter is the center of mass in this case the sun where two or some more bodies or planets orbit each other by the point in which they both are orbiting

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