Mission To Mars

The planet Mars is a red plant that is found in the Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy one planets farther from the sun than Earth. The planet Mars has a very thin atmosphere full of primarily carbon dioxide. The surface of Mars is very dusty and rocky because of volcanoes. The geology of Mars is different from Earth in many ways including the amount of volcanoes, mountains, valleys, and internal makeup.

Mars is a very cooled planet, the average temperature on mars is at least minus 80 degrees, that’s way below freezing. Mars surface is very rocky with canyons, volcanos, dry lake beds and also craters all over mars. Red dust mostly covers most of mars surface. Mars is about one third of the gravity of earths atmosphere. If someone were to go to mars and they weighed at least 100 pounds they would weigh only about 37 pounds because of the reduced gravity. Mars atmosphere contains 95 percent more of carbon dioxide and less then 1 percent oxygen.

Mars is a planet with 36% of gravity to compared the Earth. If on Earth are 100 pounds on Mars it would weigh 36 pounds. Temperature on Mars may reach -81 degrees F and 39 degrees F. Martian summer are short and hot and winters are long and cold. Mars floor is dry and oxidizing. It also receives to many ultraviolet rays. Mars has a very thin atmosphere, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide. Has only 0.03% of water that is a thousand times less than the Earth.

Its thin atmosphere and most likely a completely waterless surface shows that any life that was to land on the Red Planet would have a hard time trying to survive. At that time, when life was found on Earth, Mars had an ocean, volcanoes and deltas, the difference between Mars and Earth is Mars rapidly lost its hold on habitability. According to scientist Mars lacks the ability to have a protective magnetic field, most of the water left the surface and escaped into space, this was caused by the exposure of the surface to the cosmic rays and ultraviolet light. There were only a few packs of water left on the surface, some remained at the poles whereas others may have remained under the

The topic of Mars has long been of interest to astronomers and science fiction enthusiast alike. The premise of another planet supporting life excites people like no other. In 2004, The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, began preliminary science experiments and instrument proposals for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and a robotic space probe mission to Mars. After long testing and development stages, the mission birthed a rover, Curiosity, which was launched in November 2011 and subsequently landed August 6th 2012. As we speak Curiosity is collecting invaluable data for our understanding of mars including: habitability, climate and geology, and possibly setting up a manned mission to mars in the

Viking mission 1 launched August 20,1975 and weighed 576 kilograms (1270 pounds). The lander landed July 20, 1976. Lander 1 was only designed to work for 90 days to gather information about Mars but sent data back to Earth for more than six years. Viking 1 is pretty successful, it powered down on August 17,1980 and had 1400 orbits which is close to two times the amount of orbits the second Viking had.

Spirit stumbled across rocks that pointed to an earlier, unrulier Mars that was marked by impacts, explosive volcanism and subsurface water [source: NASA Mars]. "Water is key because almost everywhere we find water on Earth we find life," NASA's Web site. However, we are still unsure life existed on Mars.

Neil Degrasse Tyson once stated, ¨The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”Also, in the article, “Could Humans Actually Live on Mars?,” Laurie Vazquez, the author, writes, “For thousands of years, humans have looked up at the night sky and pondered their place in the cosmos. One little red dot in particular has long held our interest.” Mars, also known as the ¨red planet¨, is the fourth planet from the sun and is composed of rock with a thin, full of CO2, atmosphere. Additionally, to reach Martian land you have to leave Earth every two years because it is faster and safer when Mars is at its closest it can be to us. It takes 300 days on a spacecraft from Earth

Mars is a planet that we are still learning and discovering new things about. They have landed rovers on the planet and has discovered water under the surface of the planet. If they were to send humans to mars it would help discover more things that a robot couldn't do that a person can. With a person's view it would be better because the person would be able to describe it and show proof.

The Expedition of the mars Rovers are nice , They gather a bunch of evidence on how mars could possibly be hospitable NASA's current mission to send an astronaut to Mars is driven by development of the Orion crew exploration vehicle. The capsule spacecraft is being designed to take humans back to the moon by 2020. In later years, by rendezvous with Mars-bound vehicles assembled in orbit, it may take the first humans to the Red Planet.

People are going to colonize Mars! Colonizing Mars is a great idea because of NASA technology, Mars resources, and human capabilities.

Mars; the fourth planet from the sun, and considering the vast expanse of the universe, Mars is only a mere 49 million miles from Earth. Mars has been the object of many speculative questions and hypothesis. Over the years, many have wondered if Mars ever sustained life, or if not, if it were possible to one day sustain life; i.e. Humans. There have been many missions to Mars in an attempt to answer those and other questions, like the three separate rover craft missions that will be discussed in this paper. Most recently, the idea to put humans on Mars has gained traction and scientists have begun the process to put that plan into motion. The goal of this paper is to provide more in-depth detail of those missions, their

Scientists say that there might be flowing water on Mars-and they have evidence to prove it. They've found dark, narrow streaks all along the planet. These streaks seemingly flow downhill, and scientists think these are caused by flowing water. Along with these streaks, scientists have found hydrated salts. Furthermore, scientists have found mysterious streaks that lengthen when it is warm, and disappear when it is colder.

Water is an important human need and the water that exists on Mars’ surface may likely be pure enough and be suitable for us, however the unknown factor is what types of microbial and chemical structure exist on Martian water. What coincides with water is also the Martian climate. As discussed on the “Mission to Mars” article atmosphere of Mars is thin compared to Earth and therefore liquid water is very rare on its surface and the Martian climate also plays a role to hosting bacteria-like life. Also, from the “Icarus” article water is a crucial indicator of global climate changes on long-time scales and has fundamental links to life forms origin. Thus, from reading these articles, the main objective is to understand processes of water and atmosphere on Mars. This is why the study of water vapor has been the main subject for spacecraft and ground-based observations. Many of the technology or instrument used to analyze water vapor involves some type of spectrometer. There are different types of tools space agency can use to analyze Mars’ water

Recently scientists were conducting a search for missing carbon on mars, some other scientists say it's time to call off the search. Mars once had an atmosphere filled with enough carbon to increase the temperature of the planet for oceans of water to flow. The mars described in the previous paragraph is very different from the current mars, a cold desert world. This massive change put many scientists on the search for this reservoir of carbon. This reservoir can not be found in the dirt or dust of the planet. Newer research suggests we may not have to find the massive carbon reservoir to find the to explain the planet's watery past. Also, the martin atmosphere was not very dense any way billions of years ago. Like any other planet mar's atmosphere is