Pros And Cons Of Terraforming Mars

Mars’ conditions make it extremely difficult for any type of living organism to survive. The text states “7) Environmental reaction. All animals interact with their environment.” (Source A). Furthermore, the ext in Source B states “‘We don’t find nitrates in the Martian soil,’ said Catling. ‘All life on earth uses Nitrogen. In proteins, [Nitrogen] is a structural element that holds life together. Life takes Nitrogen directly out of the air and puts it into the soil to form nitrates. But we don’t see nitrates on Mars.” This shows that if any type of organism known to us would not be able to survive on Mars. All life must rely on their environment, and they must rely on nitrogen as well. However, there is no nitrogen in the Martian soil, so the animals would quickly die off. Furthermore, Source B also states that there is too much carbon monoxide in the air for animals to survive. This is harmful to animals, and they could not survive in such conditions on

The people that go to mars are risking their lives they can die of many things, including lack of oxygen and sickness. There is no atmosphere on Mars so therefore there is no oxygen which all humans need. The people will try to make an atmosphere by planting plants which let off oxygen, which could easily fail. Some

In “Follow The Water” Jennifer L. Holm writes about if someone lived on Mars, she includes why it’s difficult to live there. Mars is a very difficult place to live in because it lacks food, oxygen, and fresh, clean water. Mars had many intense dust storms, barren landscape, no breathable air, and if you go outside you must wear a protective space suit because of the radiation.

Now that the colonies have power, the next issue, and arguably the most important one, needs to be tackled: creating food. The food provided by NASA can only last so long, and supply drops can takes months to arrive if Mars is on the optimal position, and well over a year if it is not. Because of this, colonists need a way to ensure that they have a sustainable and sufficient source of food, so they remain properly nourished and do not starve to death. This is the exact problem seen in the popular film, and the novel it was based on, The Martian. To surmount this obstacle, Mark Watney (the title character) uses his extensive knowledge of botany to grow potatoes in the Martian soil, using his own waste as fertilizer. While the book and movie

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. This red planet is 3,389.5 kilometers in size. In pop culture, Mars was a symbol of war and aggression for thousands of years. The kilometer size was very shocking to me. Today, mars is covered in toxic soil and zapped with radiation as it says in the "Pop Culture Mars" article. That seems very dangerous. Mars' diameter is half of Earth's diameter. In the article, "Pop Culture Mars," it states that Mars will soon be a place that humans will soon be able to settle at. Mars has changed over many of years. It all started BC (before Christ). I honestly believe Mars has Earth-like features. Studies have shown that there was water found in Mars. I honestly have no idea about what technology that would be made

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

There are several things that can be learned about Greek culture through the story of Prometheus. The myth of Prometheus is about the theft of fire. Some of the things that can be seen through this myth are the value of fire and why animal offerings were done.

NASA researchers Nicole Herrman, Douglas Craig, and Patrick Troutman in their article “The Evolvable Mars Campaign-Study Status” outline characteristics of the Martian environment that can potentially aid a manned mission to Mars. Even though the environment on Mars is harmful to a living Earth organism (without a spacesuit) it aids our production of creating a stable environment for us and using our equipment. Some of the ways the NASA researchers have found about the Mars environment that can be use an accrued man mission comes in play of its been atmosphere Mars is moons in the lack of oxygen.

Mars was just like Earth about four billion years ago. Mars used have a very similar atmosphere and magnetic field until something that is disputed happened around 3.7 billion ago whether that be a huge asteroid hit it, solarwinds destroyed it, or Mars lost it due to its low gravity. The first reason Mars is up for colonization is because Mars has frozen water in its soil. Which means a lot for colonization like the ability to grow plants and a drinking source. Another Reason is Mars lack of extremities. Mars average temperature is -284 degrees in the winter and 84 degrees in the summer their days are also only 40 minutes longer than the Earth's. Even those these temperature seem crazy they are relatively modest compared to other planets in the Universe. The final reason is its location. Mars would take between 39 days to 289 days to reach is relatively close in comparison to the size of the universe (Rau). Mars is now the most looked at the planet for human colonization because of those

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.

For whatever reason, the planet Mars has always been synonymous with alien life in popular culture. This makes it very interesting to study. Recent studies have taught us a great deal about Mars’ surface, water content and geography as well as suggesting that it may have been capable of supporting life in the past. Further study of Mars’ ice caps, various impact craters and other sources has helped scientists glean information of the planet’s history and the wealth of information that can be gained from its study. Of course, the most popular topic about Mars is its present habitability and presence of life, both of which are still very possible. Mars will be an excellent planet to analyze due to its proximity to earth and its ability to potentially sustain life.

Last but not least, unlike Earth, Mars does not have a magnetosphere, like a forcefield around Earth that helps protect us from harsh elements of “space weather”. Nasa studies agree that Mars is exposed to solar flares and cosmic rays. Scientists aren’t sure why, but Mars’ internal magnetic Dynamo turned off about 4 billion years ago. After that, the solar wind slowly eroded or worn away the Martian atmosphere until today, it is estimated less than 1% as thick as

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Global warming and pollution are two major reasons why colonizing Mars is a bad idea. Many scientists are working on ideas to fix the atmosphere on Mars, finding liquid

Icarus Madalynn Hyman Humans have a certain mindset of what their fate should be and what they want it to be. We often confuse fate with destiny. In the poem Icarus the author, Edward field, takes the myth of Daedalus and Icarus and alters it so that Icarus lived and and is living a mundane lifestyle. Throughout the poem Icarus battles with coming to terms with his fate. He doesn’t want to accept the fate in the actual myth, which states that he drowns, and also refuses to accept his fate in his new life which is normal and mundane.