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    The Mars Exploration Rover Mission

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two similar twin robotic rovers, which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two similar twin robotic rovers which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into

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    opportunity (MER-B) are the names of two rovers which were part of Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER). The purpose of spirit and opportunity rovers was to travel across the Martian surface in an attempt to gather information that would assist in determining if there was ever life in Mars through characterizing the geology and climate of mars, and set up for human exploration of mars. It was launched by NASA in June 2003 and landed on mars in January of 2004, originally designed operate for 90 sol days

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    Humanity shouldn’t pursue exploration of Mars because we have more pressing issues like conflicts over the world (WW3). Money can be spent on other programs and or research that can be useful today instead of exploring Mars. Also, if they did explore Mars the exploration could bring back a deadly disease that no one can cure. Mars exploration could be disastrous, one scenario that can occur is if the exploration brings back a deadly disease or diseases that no one can cure and can kill all of mankind

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    Exploration Mars Essay Whenever a new idea comes across are brain, we look at all the positive outcomes, but seem to abandon the negative outcomes we may come across. At first thinking about exploring mars could be beneficial, the reality of it is that you can not always takes risks especially when the whole world is at stake. The truth is we do not know what is out there, and we do not know what to prepare for. Millions of dollars will be spent, Scientists, mathematicians, and so many engineers

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    Mars is of course known as the “Red Planet” as the name implies, it’s red. Many people (including myself) are tricked to believe that Mars is hot, but it’s not. The surface of Mars is pretty rocky and barren. However, Mars also has Avalanches that turn up the soil, along with areas that show a possible brine, or watery area. I used to think Mars was nothing but a small, dusty rock with no hope. This website completely changed that. It says that Mars used to have water, and may still have areas

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    Mars Exploration For over 60 years now, humans have been trying anything possible to get information on our neighboring planet. Known as the “Red Planet”, Mars is the closest planet to us in our Solar System that has the chance of having human life on it. Though the chances of life on Mars are slim to none, many space organizations, including NASA, are still exploring the planet for any signs of life. Questions that many of the NASA crews ask themselves are : Is there water on Mars? What is the

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    because most forms of life are unable to survive in a Mars-like environment without assistance. However, research at Cambridge has found that Mars contains the resources to sustain cyanobacteria, which could potentially make it possible to sustain other forms of life on Mars. Perhaps most importantly, cyanobacteria can perform photosynthesis, which makes oxygen production possible (Verseux et al., 2015). Verseux determined that sustaining a Mars crew for a year solely on Earth food would require the

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    planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. In addition, Mars is a planet that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have taken an interest upon. The appeal of Mars leads us into a controversial question which is “Should the United States attempt a manned mission to Mars?” This question was proposed by George Bush in his 2001-09 presidencies (“Mars Exploration”). His plan is to establish a space station on Mars. Of course, this does cause controversy

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    uniquely similar vision in mind. In his famous philosophical work The Republic, Plato discusses the essential factors for creating the ideal city, including the subjects of class, sustainability, and power. With a similar tone, Musk’s speech on colonizing Mars speaks of the the ingredients that make this new society possible, as well as discussing the inevitable nature of this new society’s creation. The innovative rhetoric employed by both Plato and Musk is what has fueled progressive societal change in

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