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Thursday 5/25/17 Notebook Entry: “NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s. Engineers and scientists around the country are working hard to develop the technologies astronauts will use to one day live and work on Mars, and safely return home from the next giant leap for humanity.” NASA’s Journey to Mars, 9/2015 Would you want to be an astronaut that travels to Mars for the first time? Why or why not?
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What do humans need to survive?
Air Personal Space? Water Interaction with others? Food Sanitation? Shelter Sleep
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Identify the Problem You are a space engineer. You want to model a base in which people could live and work on Mars. What problems do you think you’ll encounter?
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https://mars.nasa.gov/allaboutmars/facts/#infographic
Do Research
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Relative Size of Earth and Mars
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Mars, The Red Planet
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Echus Geological Feature
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Ridge
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Boulders
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Rover Wheel Tracks
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Do Research Thinking about the pictures and using the data sheet answer questions 2 and 3. What are the features of Earth that support human life? How well suited is the Mars surface for humans? Explain.
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