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Jennifer L Holm's Follow The Water

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Mars has been an interesting planet to mankind for years now, and scientists have decided to take things into their own hands. They are making plans to put people on Mars to have them live there. Consequently, they would need to face many problems during the period of time preparing for the journey to mars. One of the many problems they would have to face, for example, is: How will they get food, water, or air? Well, you’re about to find out. In Jennifer L Holm’s fictional story, “Follow the Water”, she uses facts about Mars to help you imagine some of the problems characters would have to face, and how they would be able to fix them in reality.
Since Mars does not have a supply of food, drinkable water, and air to keep the astronauts alive, shuttles would be sent to Mars periodically. In consideration that it would take too long, and it would be too expensive to transport air from Earth, they would have to get a filter that can recycle the air. As Georgina says in the story, she is tired of breathing in the stale air. Naturally, is stale because it has been run through a filter to make it breathable. They would also need to recycle the water they use, so that means it would be necessary to reuse the water they wash their hands with, bath …show more content…

In general the deadly radiation from the sun and elsewhere in space can cause skin cancer. While the average temperature is -81ºF, in the summer it gets to be 67ºF. In the story, when they go outside, they must wear suits due to the lack of oxygen, the radiation, and the extreme temperatures. In the winter, though it can get below -120º F! Hence, in the story, when they go outside, they must wear suits. The dust storms can be so bad that they can rage on for days. Because the dust is so small, it went through the plastic of Georgina’s plastic home on Mars. Some of them are so bad, you can not even

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