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Mars Exploration
• Mars is mainly explored by rovers.
• The rovers are called Spirit, curiosity and Opportunity.
• They were put on mars in 2004 to search for water.
• They were designed to last 3 months.
• Spirit lasted 6 years and returned to earth 2010.
• Opportunity is still on mars today.
• Curiosity was sent up in 2011 and is still functioning today
• The rovers clues have helped humans discover clues on mars past present and how human life might be possible there in the future.
Opportunity
• This rover launched July 7th 2003.
• It was sent uo with its twin spirit.
• They were sent up there to search for water in the past.
• It is still up there and being used today for missions.
• So far it has lived 40 times its expected lifespan.
• Opportunity is the longest running mars rover.
• It found traces of water and signs of life there in the past.
• Opportunity has continued to move, gather scientific observations, and report back to Earth for nearly 40 times its designed lifespan.
• Mission highlights include the initial 90 sol mission, finding extramartian meteorites such as Meridiani Planum, and over two years studying Victoria crater. It survived dust-storms and reached Endeavour crater in 2011, which has been described as a "second landing site
Spirit
• Spirit ran from 2004 to 2010.
• Its twin rover is Opportunity.
• It became stuck in late 2009 and its last communication with earth was early 2010.
• The rover completed its 90-sol mission.
• Spirit functioned 20 times longer then its expected lifespan.
• It also went more then 7 km when it was expected to only go 600 meters.
• It was also used to collect and alalize martin rocks.
Curiosity
• Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
• Curiosity was launched on November 26, 2011.
• The rover is researching the weather on mars and see if human life would ever be possible.
• They are getting more supporting details that human life would be possible one day on mars.
• It takes pictures of its data and sends it to earth.
Mars Science Laboratory
• This article is about the spaceflight mission to Mars. For the surface rover named curiosity.
• It is a rover mission designed to investigate the climate and collect data for a manned mission to mars.
Manned mission to mars
• The mars science laboratory is collecting information to see when and if it would be possible.
• They estimate that this will happen some time in the 20th or 21st century.
• They will continue to research until they figure out how they can make human exploration to mars possible.
• It would take about 7- 8 month to get to the surface of mars.
Traveling to mars
• When people will be able to travel to mars depends how soon they send a manned space ship to mars.
• They are pretty close to finding being able to do that.
• My guess is that it will become possible in the late 20th centry.
• I guessed this because I predict that they will send a manned ship to mars in 30-50 years so by then they will know how it is possable they will just have to build a big enough ship.
• If it woild take about 7-8 month to get to mars in a small shuttle it would take at least 8-10 months for a bigger one.
Sources
• http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
• http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
• http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/mars_planet/index.html
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