MarsBy Chelsea Hoyle

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.

Opportunity

Longest rover to be in mars

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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