1. 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?

3. What do humans need to survive?
Air
Personal Space?
Water
Interaction with others?
Food
Sanitation?
Shelter
Sleep

4. 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?

5. https://mars.nasa.gov/allaboutmars/facts/#infographic
Do Research

6. Relative Size of Earth and Mars

7. Mars, The Red Planet

8. Echus Geological Feature

9. Ridge

10. Boulders

11. Rover Wheel Tracks

12. 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.