Being on National Honor Society and sports teams throughout high school‚ I had enjoyed participating in many volunteer experiences before coming to Drake. Every year our basketball team would collect food around our community to be donated to various food drives in nearby cities. With only general assumptions about food pantries‚ I always wondered how they worked. Now‚ after being able to volunteer at the IMPACT food pantry over the last few months‚ my original assumptions about food panties has
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time on Mars. The fourth planet from the sun doesn’t provide great hospitality as we see in this novel. Mark Watney‚ a botanist on a mission on Mars‚ is lost and left behind in a dust storm on the planet. The other crewmates have escaped the deadly storm‚ but Watney did not. He now has to survive the long time it will take to get another mission to Mars to rescue him. With his own feces and being a botanist‚ he creates food on an otherwise desolate planet. He also uses leftover equipment on Mars to build
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be like to be stranded on Mars? In this novel written by Andy Weir‚ the main character - astronaut Mark Watney - is left behind on Mars and is forced to survive with limited resources. Thankfully‚ Mark has the help of many people at NASA‚ such as Venkat Cooper‚ director of Mars operations‚ Teddy Sanders‚ and others. Mark only has resources for a thirty day mission to Mars‚ but to get off the planet‚ he’ll have to survive for four years. Meanwhile‚ it seems that Mars keeps trying to kill him
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------------------------------------------------- Introduction Wikijunior books welcomes you to the children ’s book "Solar System". Outer space is perhaps the final frontier for man. Even though the rest of the solar system objects may seem like tiny dots from Earth‚ our celestial neighbors are still important to learn about. The importance of this task has led many experts here at Wikijunior to donate their time and talents to bring this volume together. Wikibooks is a project of the Wikimedia
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Mars One‚ a ticket to our dreams Mars One‚ a project aiming at sending humans to the remote Mars as well as establishing outer space colony‚ has aroused heated debate globally since it was launched. This one way mission signifies that the astronauts may never be able to come back to the Earth‚ which keeps many people wondering if it worthwhile to explore the unknown world in sacrifice of astronauts’ lives. Some opponents argue that this one way trip is nothing more than a suicide mission. But
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taken 549 sols in Mars’ time and 687 days in Earth’s time. Mark had been abandoned since Sol 6 and was rescued on sol 549. How would we get back?: In The Martian‚ the circumstances of Mark Watney being left on Mars had caused the travel back to Earth to be different than if everyone had left Mars at the same time. In The Martian‚ The crew of the Ares 3 mission‚ excluding Mark‚ had left Mars as how the order and process of leaving Mars should have went. They had arrived to Mars’ orbit using Hermes
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planets and jovian planets. The terrestrial planets are composed primarily of rock and metal. They also generally have high densities‚ slow rotation‚ solid surfaces‚ no rings‚ and few satellites. These planets include Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ and Mars. On the other hand‚ the jovian planets are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. They generally have low densities‚ rapid rotation‚ deep atmospheres‚ rings‚ and numerous satellites. These planets include Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ and Neptune
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System. This angered the Moon‚ who despised the Sun. The Moon Spirit challenged the Sun for the position as ruler of the planets. Unfortunately for the Moon‚ the Sun used his superior strength to outcast the Moon to a lonely location between Venus and Mars. After 4‚000 years of peace among the bodies of the Solar System‚ the Sun was growing old and developed a feeling that something was missing. The Sun Spirit decided that it was time for him to create a new successor since he has aged and become weak
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Lecture 13 Lunar Eclipse * An eclipse in which the moon passes into the shadow of the Earth * Umbra: the portion of the shadow that receives no direct sunlight from the light source * Penumbra: the portion of a shadow that receives direct light from only part of the light source * Eclipse season: the time of year during which a solar or lunar eclipse is possible Types of Lunar Eclipses * Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: an eclipse where the moon passes through the earth’s penumbra‚
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his novels are. Bradbury begins his novel in January of 2030 in Ohio where a rocket is launched into space heading for Mars. In the following month on Mars‚ a Martian named Ylla begins having strange dreams about a rocket from Earth landing on her planet and a strange creature named Nathaniel York emerging from it. Ylla’s dreams come true‚ and the men from Earth finally land on Mars‚ but her husband shoots them all. The next expedition from Earth lands in August 2030‚ this time carrying three men who
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