My lunar outpost will be located on the planet Mars. Mars, also known as the Red Planet,
is the 4 th planet from the Sun. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere. My outpost is
consisted of living and dining space, sleeping pods, exercise room, greenhouse, laboratory,
equipment storage, and workspace. The outpost will be made out of a material to increase
gravitational pull on the inside so nothing will float. I decided to make my outpost on Mars
because it is the most similar to Earth than the other planets. Here are some key facts on the
planet.
Average Temp: -81 degrees Fahrenheit but ranges from -195 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Diameter: 4,220 miles
Distance from Earth: 249 mil miles
Length of Day: 24 hr. 37 min.
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Crust and Surface: mostly iron-rich basaltic rock (Similar to Earth’s surface).
My outpost is needed to further research Mars so that we could maybe have many
colonies on it one day. I will have a colony of around 10-20 people living on the outpost, mostly
scientists. There will only be one outpost in a single area. The inhabitants will only have to wear
a suit while exposed to the atmosphere. They can wear normal clothing inside the base.
The outpost power will be from solar panels during the day, and wind turbines during the
night. I will use the oxygen given off by the plants in the greenhouse and the ventilation system
in the outpost to keep a constant flow of oxygen going throughout the establishment. The outpost
will be cooled by using water vapor in the air and soil and heated by trapping the rays from the
sun using a solar panel like contraption. The base temperature can be controlled by opening and
closing the ventilation valves. Food will be provided by the greenhouse and by the supply runs.
Water will be provided by pumping out water found in the soil and by water vapor in the air.
The base will be resupplied every 6-8 months depending on what is needed. If food,
If human kind is to conquer the solar system and reach for the stars, we must first start closer to home. In such a situation, creating a colony on our nearest partner celestial body, the Moon, would create an ideal opportunity to learn and explore technical capabilities and human characteristics in space. On board, there would be plenty of science to do, plenty of fun to be had, and plenty of knowledge to learn. However, a lunar base of this kind of complexity can not just be slapped together; it must be designed and detailed beforehand to ensure a safe working environment for those inside and around the lunar base.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two similar twin robotic rovers, which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into its mission (NASA 2012). The rovers were thought to last 20 times longer as compared to its original design. As part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, the Mars Exploration Rover mission is a continuing multi-mission effort to study Mars as a possible habitation for past or present life and to look for signs of life as well as to prepare for human exploration. Primary objective of the Mars Exploration Rover mission is to explore and characterize a wide range of soils and rocks that possess clues or evidences to past water activity on Mars (NASA 2012).
Passing by mars now, it’s currently being terraformed. Slowly turning red from green by the day.
Whereas Venus seems too hot for life and Mars seems too cold, Earth lies between Venus and Mars, where temperatures have the potential to be just right for its surface to possess liquid water. This "Goldilocks" zone is also known as the habitable zone, because on Earth, there is life virtually wherever there is liquid water.
Mars, a planet we know little of just until Curiosity came along,Curiosity is a rover that got sent to Mars and had to find the geology about Mars and if there is water and the climate.This importaint information gave us great ideas from when this rover was launched and this rover was launched on November 6, 2011 and since that we’ve got more information that there is a chance for water to be on Mars.NASA has had that information since when it landed August 6, 2012 and that information gave us great ideas because the information and trip was a succes.The spinoff of what Curiosity used was a rocket powered sky crane that it used to land on Mars and is also used on Earth by landing planes in testing for this rover to have a good landing on Mars . This rover gave us uses on Earth and info on Earth about Mars as we go through more and more days but NASA is sending more missions to different places, get different goals,and have different spinoffs that we use.
Colonizing the red planet has always seemed like an idea from a science fiction book. However, as humans began accomplishing feats such as sending a man to the moon all the way up to setting up a temporary residence in space in the form of the international space station the dream of colonizing mars has become a possible reality.
Is there life on Mars? Almost every person in science has asked this question at least once in their life. While there are people who believe that there is, there are also the naysayers. Mars is one of the planets that have eluded us for centuries while we have landed on it and done studies; we have still yet to fully say that there was life on mars or that there currently is life on mars. Some scientists have dedicated their lives to finding out the answer. In this paper, both sides will be represented to fully understand this difficult question.
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If you were magically able to take a road trip to Mars for the day, you would stumble upon rocks, walk through valleys, maybe even take a look at the second largest mountain in our solar system; Olympus Mons. However, due to today’s low atmospheric pressure on Mars, there is no water, no life, and the hypothetical road trip wouldn’t work because you would not be able to breathe. The water-less Mars we know today, hasn’t always been just a red planet. Previous studies beginning in the late 70’s and again in the 90’s detected evidence of water once occurring on Mars. However, a new scientific study led by Sharon Wilson of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Virginia, shows water on Mars may have existed earlier than previously thought.
Preview: Today I will discuss the potential that solar power has to become this country’s main supply of energy and the latest research that can make solar power more efficient and cost effective. I will also present the environmental benefits that come with using solar power over other and more harmful forms of energy.
For the generation of electricity, hot water, at temperatures ranging from about 700 degrees F, is brought from the underground reservoir to the surface through production wells, and is flashed to steam in special vessels by release of pressure. The steam is separated from the liquid and fed to a turbine engine, which turns a generator. In turn, the generator produces electricity. Spent geothermal fluid is injected back into peripheral parts of the reservoir to help maintain reservoir pressure. If the reservoir is to be used for direct-heat application, the geothermal water is usually fed to a heat exchanger before being injected back into the earth. Heated domestic water from the output side of the heat exchanger is used for home heating, greenhouse heating, vegetable drying and a wide variety of other uses.
The subject of my science fiction story will be the near future colonization of Mars. It will be in the form of a crew log recording the difficulties of their mission, one of which will be life support and habitation on such a long journey and potentially continuing at the surface of another planet as well. My paper will cover supplying resources for an endeavor of this magnitude, the features of Mars itself, and potential terraforming of the Martian surface to support human life. Habitation is an issue humanity currently faces with long term exposure to the environment of space in the International Space Station and as such is a problem NASA has put considerable resources toward solving in the hopes of pushing future long term manned missions to celestial bodies within our solar system into the realm of possibility. A manned mission to Mars – especially one for colonization – would certainly fall into the long term mission category and so habitation will be a central part of my explorers’ journeys.
Mercury is the 1st planet from the Sun. It goes through extreme temperature changes, it can be -279 degrees fahrenheit at night, and 801 in the day. Mercury is made of rock and dust. Venus is the 2nd plane. Venus, which is the hottest planet, reaches temperatures of up to 864 degrees fahrenheit. Venus is made of rock and dust. Earth is the 3rd planet. Its temperature is (on average) 61 degrees. Earth is the only planet known to support life. It is also made of rock and dust. Mars is the 4th planet. It is up to 70 degrees in summer and down to -195 in the winter, it is the final planet composed of rock and dust. Jupiter is the 5th planet, it is usually -234 degrees fahrenheit. Jupiter is made of gas. Saturn is the 6th planet, it has rings visible from earth, its average temperature is -288 degrees, it is also made of gas. Uranus is the 7th planet. Uranus has a tilted orbit. its average temperature is -357 degrees fahrenheit. It is composed of gas. Neptune is the 8th and final planet, it has an average temperature of -218 degrees. It is the last planet composed of
As we arrive to Mars there are some resources already there, such as water and atmospheric 02. But the difficult part about these resources is that we have to transform them in a certain way so it can be used for humans. We would have to extract the water from the rich soil using a tool, therefore this would be our water source. We would also have to bring some sort of greenhouse so we could grow plants and give off mor...
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