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Mission Persuasive Essay

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Sebastian Castellanos
Prof. Erika Harnett
ESS 102
Nov. 1, 2015
Sci-fi paper
March, 23, 2024 We made it! Well, to be honest, this was expected considering how careful they are down at mission control, but I couldn’t help being a little nervous. It’s a strange feeling, leaving your home. In my case, I left my planet, so I guess it is a different feeling, but it still feels the same, damn it. This really is a different feeling than being on earth, our bodies are weightless and I feel that my skin has started to bloat. It is too bad that I did not get to see the moon, as it was on the other side of the planet in this stage of its orbit. Our mission is to send and pilot a surveyor drone into Jupiter’s atmosphere and collect information from our …show more content…

It has been a long journey, but this is where the real journey starts. From Venus, our course is to fly back and get a Gravity assist from Earth. This maneuver will change our acceleration using the gravitational pull from a nearby object to “launch” us towards where we need to go[3]. This technique can be used to increase or decrease our acceleration[3] in this case, we are going to use it to increase our acceleration. All an all, from the start of our mission till we leave Earths pull, this maneuver will take around 10 months to complete[4], saving us money and fuel[3]. I am not completely proficient with the mathematics involved, but I do know that the Cassini mission had an increase of about 3km/s, increasing their velocity from 35 km/s to about 38 km/s[5]. This is the start of the second phase of the maneuver and I am excited to see it play out. This yellow tinted planet is very interesting to look at, but Venus is not the focus of our mission. Being in the orbit of another planet is a very strange feeling; you never truly get a scale of the size of planets until you have been close to two. It is unfortunate that we cannot get closer to Venus, but we have been given a drone that we will drop onto the surface of Venus. It is not piloted or controlled by us; we just have to drop it off. We have other planets to survey. The thought entering the surveying phase getting me even more

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