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Extra Question: Are the any other companies involved in colonizing Mars?

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Extra Question: Are the any other companies involved in colonizing Mars?

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Yes. There's also a company named Mars One. Mars One is a company that was founded by Bas Lansdorp in 2011. Mars One's plan is to launch a crew by 2031.

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Extra Question: What about other countries?

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Extra Question: What about other countries?

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The Soviet Union and China are both also interested in colonizing Mars. The U.S. has a history with the Soviet Union involving space. There was something called The Space Race. The Space Race was pretty much the United States and the Soviet Union competing and trying to become the country with the most successful space technology.

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Credit: https:/space-facts.com

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Credit: https://space-facts.com

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Credit: NASA

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At first, formatting was a bit tricky. I had to make sure it wasn't all facts and I had to position everything so that people looking at my project wouldn't feel like everything I wrote was too much.

Second, when I used www.easybib.com, I went to the websites I wrote down, but I couldn't always find the article I used so I had to just put the website.

Third, on my 5th question, I couldn't find a lot of information on what SpaceX and NASA were and what they do.

I think it's good that I had some problems along the way, since I might have been worried if there weren't any. .

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I'd say a lot of things worked. I found a lot of information on my topic and a lot of websites. Finding things that made my project pop out a little more and not look like it was all words was pretty easy. Finding information was easy since there's a lot of information on Mars at the moment. I also learned a lot, which was one of the points of the project.

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The point of this project is that same reason why I chose it. I wanted to learn more about colonizing Mars . I wanted to learn about how Mars could become suitable for humans to live on it and I wanted other people to knowwhat's happening at the moment and what's going to happen in the future. I know that some people already know about how colonizing Mars is popular with a lot of people since it's new and exciting. I hoped maybe I could go deeper into the topic and teach other people about colonizing Mars with this project. I also think that some people might not realize how difficult it would be to colonize Mars. At first, I didn't think a lot about how much there is to correct on Mars. But, now I know that colonizing Mars will be much more complicated than I thought. A lot of work will have to go into colonizing Mars and there's a lot that scientists have to figure out.

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I chose this project because I not only wanted to learn about something I didn't know a lot about, I wanted to be knowledgeable about what's going on in our world. At the moment, colonizing Mars is critical because in the future, unless we do something quickly, Earth won't be able to sustain itself. Earth might not be suitable for humans anymore because of climate change (which is our fault by the way) but Mars is a whole other topic. Colonizing Mars was a topic I had no idea about so I was curious. Mars is a different planet with different features and issues. I thought the chance to learn about another planet and how we could terraform it would be interesting.

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Another video on how we could make Mars our home...

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Another video on how we could make Mars our home...

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Here's a video on how we would terraform (or how to make a place inhabitabl ) Mars.

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Here's a video on how we would terraform (or how to make a place inhabitabl ) Mars.

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The video stops talking about Mars at 2:28 so watching the rest of the video might be unnecessary.

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Here's another video on Earth compared to Mars...

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Here's another video on Earth compared to Mars...

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Earth vs Mars - How Do They Compare - Space / Planet Comparison 🌎

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Phobos means fear, and Deimos means dread.

One day, Mars might have a ring.

Mars got it's name from the Roman god of war.

Mars does not have a magnetic field.

Mars is also known as The Red Planet. Iron in the dust gives it a reddish color.

Mars has the tallest mountain in the Solar System, Olympus Mons.

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Here's a video to watch if you want to learn more about NASA and SpaceX...

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Here's a video to watch if you want to learn more about NASA and SpaceX...

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Q5: Who plans on finding a way to get astronauts and equipment to Mars?

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Q5: Who plans on finding a way to get astronauts and equipment to Mars?

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Spacex and NASA are two companies that are working to find a way to get to Mars. They both have an idea that humans will live on Mars one day. Or at least that's their goal.

SpaceX - SpaceX's CEO and founder is a well known billionaire named Elon Musk. SpaceX already has a rocket called Falcon 9. Elon Musk hopes to get to Mars by 2022.

NASA - The government created NASA in 1958 after the Soviet Union launched the first satellite to orbit the Earth in 1957. NASA hopes to get to Mars by the 2030's.

A lot of people think that NASA and SpaceX are competing against each other since NASA is a goverment company while SpaceX is a private company but no, they aren't rivals. In some ways, they're actually working together.

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Mars and Earth's days are very similar. Earth's days are 24 hours while Mar's days are 24 hours and 39 minutes.

Earth and Mar's axis are very alike which is why the seasons are so similar. Earth's axis tilts at 23.5 while Mar's axis tilts at 25.2.

Earth and Mars both show signs of water. Some scientists think that since Mars used to have liquid water, it had life there at one point.

Both also happen to be planets. (Who knew?)

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On Mars, you can jump three times higher than you would be able to on Earth.

Mars has two moons instead of one. The two moons are called Phobos and Deimos.

On Mars, one year is 687 days, but on Earth, we have 365 days. This is probably because Earth rotates at 30 km/s and Mars rotates at 24 km/s.

Mars is also a little farther away from the sun. Earth is the 3rd planet away from the sun, while Mars is the 4th.

Mars is the 2nd smallest planet (3rd if you count Pluto, but I doubt that anybody does) and Earth is the 4th.

Mar's diameter is only a little more than half of Earth's diameter. Mar's is 6,790 kilometers and Earth's is 12,750 kilometers.

2/3 of Earth's surface is covered in water. Mars's surface is covered in no water.

Earth's mass is 10 times greater than Mars's.

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Q2: How would Mars become a suitable place to live?/ What could be solutions to these problems?

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Q2: How would Mars become a suitable place to live?/ What could be solutions to these problems?

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Atmosphere - Scientists would use organisms like phytoplankton and cyanobacteria to transform CO2 into oxygen.

Habitat - We would create a world underground with tunnels that would lead to other areas.

Water - Since some water (in the form of ice) is underground, the ice/water would be pulled from the ground and made suitable to drink.

Climate - Scientists don’t really have a solution to this problem but all scientists need to do is study Mars’s climate and understand it fully so that they can find a solution.

Gravity - Scientists can't do much about Mars's gravity, but the more scientists figure out about Mars's gravity, the quicker and easier it will be to find a solution.

Radiation - Scientists also can't do much about Mars's weak magnetic field, so I think the only solution (at the moment) is to stay underground or be protected from the outside.

Getting to Mars - Now that would be a problem for the companies trying to get to Mars to solve.

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Q1: What problems would humans face on Mars?

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Q1: What problems would humans face on Mars?

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Atmosphere - The atmosphere on Mars is 95% carbon dioxide.

Habitat - The habitats that would be on Mars would have to be self-sustaining/energy-efficient and and sealed from the thin atmosphere.

Water - The only water scientists know about is frozen and most of it is underground.

Climate - The climate on Mars is intensely cold and humans would not be able to survive very long in Mar's climate. The highest the temperature can reach is 20 Celsius and the lowest is -73 Celsius. The average is -60 Celsius.

Gravity - The gravity on Mars is only 38% of Earth's. The gravity on Mars would be a problem for humans who might settle there, since it has an effect on health.

Radiation - Since there's lots of radiation on Mars, this is would be a concern for making Mars fitting for humans.

Getting to Mars - Getting to Mars will be difficult. Even though Mars is the closest planet to Earth, it's still a very long distance between the two planets.

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