In making the case for sending humans to explore Mars in the near future. President Bush has proposed a grand multi-billion dollar long-term project. A project‚ to this author‚ is well worth the money. To start off‚ I will list off a few of my reasons that I will describe more specifically later in this article. First of all‚ the price tag of 170 billion dollars could easily be reduced by extensive research of more energy and cost efficient technology in the 26 years to come before we actually launch
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Is Our Atmosphere Unique? The planet Jupiter has the biggest atmosphere in our solar system. Jupiter’s atmosphere is composed of 90% hydrogen and 9.9% helium and .1% other gases such as sulfur‚ methane‚ ammonia‚ and water vapor. It is able to hold its atmosphere in because of its massive gravitational pull that is around 2.5 times stronger than earth’s pull. To put that into perspective‚ if you weigh 100 pounds on earth you would weigh 250 pounds on Jupiter. The atmospheric layers are the
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Creative brief Company: Mars Incorporated Category: Pet foods Brand: Pedigree Background and Overview: Mars incorporates is the NO 1 company in the pet food category worldwide. The company has close to 35 brands with 3 billion dollar brands namely Pedigree‚ Whiskas and Royal Canin. The global pet food industry is estimated to be $67 billion annually and in the United States alone it is estimated to be $20 Billion. Mars incorporated is the leader with approx. 14.7% market share (as
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Could ’Goldilocks’ planet be just right for life? [->0][->1] AP Photo/Zina Deretsky‚ National Science FoundationAn artist rendering by Lynette Cook‚ National Science Foundation‚ shows the new planet on the right. · Top of Form 1 Buzz up!865 votes Bottom of Form 1 · HYPERLINK "http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_on_sc/us_sci_new_earths&t=Could+%27Goldilocks%27+planet+be+just+right+for+life%3F+-+Yahoo%21+News"Share · HYPERLINK "http://twitter.com/home
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this pale blue gift and make shelter somewhere else. In case this ever happens‚ there is a neighboring planet to bring hope towards: Mars. But even so‚ one wonders: can anybody ever live on Mars? The article Could humans actually live on mars? by Laurie Vazquez explains the possibilities of humans living on Mars‚ and based on it‚ one can conclude that life is indeed possible on Mars. For example‚ Mars has ice (Links to an external site.) which means there is a “water source” and also has “soil” which
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Sending Curiosity‚ a space rover‚ to mars is much more difficult than sending people into outer space for 2 major reasons: the amount of collaboration/effort and planning. NASA said that this mission “introduced the world to one of the most daring‚ inventive feats of engineering the world had ever witnessed: the pinpoint landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars.” In addition‚ “no mission this ambitious had ever been attempted in the past” and “the landing presented problems that could not be compared
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7 Good Reasons Why There Might Be Life on Other Planets Annalee Newitz We have no direct evidence (yet) that there is life on other planets‚ moons‚ or in interstellar space. Nevertheless‚ there are some compelling reasons to believe that eventually we will discover some‚ perhaps even in our own solar system. Here are seven reasons why scientists believe that life is out there‚ just waiting to meet us. It might not be green-skinned ladies in silver saucers‚ but it will be alien. 1. Extremophiles
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“Goldilocks and the Three Planets” “Goldilocks and the Three Planets” is an article written by Neil de Grasse Tyson that sums up the creation of the planets and why life is on Earth. He sets it to the story of Goldilocks‚ where Earth is the Little Bear’s stuff. He then breaks down the different reasons as to why we continue to have life. All of that is the basics to understanding Exoplanets. Exoplanets are just planets that orbit a star that is not our Sun. There is a subsection of exoplanets called
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Maria E. Ruiz Mr. Farquhar Writing 4 November 18‚ 2014 Outline I. Introduction Thesis statement: Although‚ some people think that that it is worth the expense and risk to make a manned flight to Mars‚ I believe that it is difficult and expensive to do it. II. Body A. Issue 1: Mars bring us an important information 1. Opposing argument 1: However‚ They are only theories because at this moment they do not have any evidence that demostrate they say is
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The study states two different split method transportation approaches to a Mars Mission: SEP-Chem and Hybrid. Compare and contrast them. State the approach you favor and why. In the Evolvable Mars Campaign the two transportation methods investigated are SEP-Chem and Hybrid. Similarly‚ they both use split methods combining solar electric and chemical propulsions to escort man on a mission to mars‚ and back to Earth. Even though‚ they both can provide the extraordinary ride it’s their unique
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