why go to mars
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Why go to mars. Mars Base M ission D ay 1. Mars aerography. Mars is the 4 th planet from the sun. Water once flowed on Mars, but are now just polar ice caps Mars is known as the “Red Planet” Mars’s geology is similar to Earth. The two moons and the topography of mars. Phobos - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WHY GO TO MARSMars Base Mission Day 1
MARS AEROGRAPHY
• Mars is the 4th planet from the sun.
• Water once flowed on Mars, but are now just polar ice caps
• Mars is known as the “Red Planet”
• Mars’s geology is similar to Earth
THE TWO MOONS AND THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MARS
Phobos• Has a crater on the side.
• Bigger than Deimos
Deimos• Smaller than Phobos
• They're both thought to be from the meteor belt
TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF MARS
• Olympus Mons - Mountain
• Hellas Planitia - Plain
• Arabia Terra - Hills
• Amazon Plain - Plain
• Aurorae Sinus (The Eye of Mars)
• Sytrus Major Planum - Low Valley
• Tharsis – Volcanic Plateau
WHAT WE NEED BEFORE WE GET TO MARS
Arrive, Survive, and Thrive
MISSION PLAN
Arrive First we have to survive on Mars when we get there. A nice landing and a map
of the place.
SurviveWhen we get to Mars we have to survive, which means find shelter, a
stable food source, and find oxygen just to survive.
Thrive Get ways to move around
and a good stable government. Make living quarters for more people
to come. Prepare experiments to conduct on
Mars.
MAKING THE ROCKETS
Making the rockets took two days. The first day we built the 1st stage. The first stage was the main part of the rocket, the main rocket had the recovery device and the engine. The second part of the rocket would fall off.
ROBOTICS
When we were programing the robots we used this software called “Terra Term.” Only about 2 people in the class knew how to use the program. For beginners the class learned real quickly. We had to learn how to command the robots to move around things. Today we were trying to program our robots to move around a maze. We had to walk back and forth many times to get the programming good.