Apollo 11: Searching Life On Mars
After landing on moon in 1969 with project Apollo 11, NASA began discovering the moon with the motto “One small step for man one big step for mankind”. Later, the project has been continued until the last Apollo 17 in 1972. When the Apollo project was over, humans have learned that the moon is lifeless. It contains no living organisms, fossils, or native organic compounds. There is no atmosphere on the moon.
To continue the mission “following the water” and to try to find the answer for the question whether life exists on Mars or not, NASA switched their focusing on searching life on Mars. In 2001, Mars Odyssey, a project was developed by NASA, used spectrometers and a thermal imager to map the distribution of water in the surface of Mars. …show more content…
The total mission cost was about $386 million dollars including cost of the launch. The mission was to search for evidence of geologic history of water and microbial life and to evaluate past or potential planetary habitability and climate in the ice-soil boundary. By using robotic arm, Phoenix Lander could collect Martian soil and send it back to the Lander for analysis. On June 2008, NASA announced that a dice-sized clumps of bright material dug by robotic arm was vaporized over four days and this is a hard evidence to imply that they are composed of water ice which sublimes when exposes to present conditions on Mars. Going beyond searching for the presence of water, the science team began measuring to determine whether there is enough water for life process or …show more content…
This is one of risk that the team chose to continue the mission because the robot was not designed to survive in cold and dark conditions. Second, using robotic arm to scoop dust sample and deliver it back to the test oven took days to complete the task while an astronaut can perform this task in couple minute. Because of this reason, some people argue if astronauts should perform those tasks instead of robotic arm. Third, some concern about millions of dollars has been used for buying some Martian soil and making some animation video clips from NASA. In addition, budget cuts would threaten the mission to explore Mars in the future.
To sum up, the paper will look the Phoenix mission at history of the project, focused missions, and accomplishments. Also, the paper will mention some disadvantages that the team had faced with during the
To continue the mission “following the water” and to try to find the answer for the question whether life exists on Mars or not, NASA switched their focusing on searching life on Mars. In 2001, Mars Odyssey, a project was developed by NASA, used spectrometers and a thermal imager to map the distribution of water in the surface of Mars. …show more content…
The total mission cost was about $386 million dollars including cost of the launch. The mission was to search for evidence of geologic history of water and microbial life and to evaluate past or potential planetary habitability and climate in the ice-soil boundary. By using robotic arm, Phoenix Lander could collect Martian soil and send it back to the Lander for analysis. On June 2008, NASA announced that a dice-sized clumps of bright material dug by robotic arm was vaporized over four days and this is a hard evidence to imply that they are composed of water ice which sublimes when exposes to present conditions on Mars. Going beyond searching for the presence of water, the science team began measuring to determine whether there is enough water for life process or …show more content…
This is one of risk that the team chose to continue the mission because the robot was not designed to survive in cold and dark conditions. Second, using robotic arm to scoop dust sample and deliver it back to the test oven took days to complete the task while an astronaut can perform this task in couple minute. Because of this reason, some people argue if astronauts should perform those tasks instead of robotic arm. Third, some concern about millions of dollars has been used for buying some Martian soil and making some animation video clips from NASA. In addition, budget cuts would threaten the mission to explore Mars in the future.
To sum up, the paper will look the Phoenix mission at history of the project, focused missions, and accomplishments. Also, the paper will mention some disadvantages that the team had faced with during the