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Mars. By 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.
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Mars By 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 MeridianiPlanum, 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 possablethey 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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