Mars by Ashton Wuenneman https://padlet.com/wuennas/ad2cw1v7n4td en-us 2017-10-25 18:53:25 UTC 2025-06-20 16:00:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Mars wuennas https://padlet.com/wuennas/ad2cw1v7n4td/wish/200583560
  • Size: 4,220 miles (6,792km) across
  • Year: 687 Earth days
  • Spin: 24.6 hours
  • Temperature:-166-32°F (-110-0°C)
  • Gravity: 0.37 times Earth’s
  • Satellites/moons: two
  • 141.6 million miles (227.9 million km) from the sun
  • Named after the Roman god of war
  • Iron minerals give mars its reddish inflamed look
  • Monns: Phobos and Deimos
  • Top sight: Olympus Mons volcano
  • Once a delightful planet with water flowing over rocky surface, but these days, mars is a chilly, hard-bitten world of dead volcanoes and dry rift valleys
  • Dust devils and tornadoes swirl across the landscape, but because mars atmosphere is now very thin, there is little strength to them
  • ½ the size of earth
  • Dried riverbeds and polar caps of dry ice are the only traces of mars's suppressed youth
  • There are still no signs of martians, despite probing

    • ]]>     2017-10-25 19:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/wuennas/ad2cw1v7n4td/wish/200583560     Mars Rovers wuennas https://padlet.com/wuennas/ad2cw1v7n4td/wish/200584179
  • Six-wheeled robotic twins named Spirit and Opportunity.
  • Solar-powered duo that poke their noses into Mars's soil
  • They have asteroids named in honor of their work
  • Weight: 385 lbs. (180kg) each
  • Height: 4.9 ft. (1.5m)
  • Top speed: 2 in. (50mm)/s
  • Fun Fact: A 9 year old Russian girl named Sofi Collis Choose their names
  • They have cameras, magnets for collecting dust particles, and high-tech scientific equipment for analyzing Mars's rocks and minerals 
  • Arrived in 2004, on opposite sides of the planet
  • Becoming one of NASA’s biggest success stories
  • There’s no one who can repair the Rovers if something goes wrong
  • So if anything damages their solar panels, which power them, then  it’s game over

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  • Mariner 3,                            Launch: Nov. 5, 1964
  • Mariner 4,                            Launch: Nov. 28, 1964
  • Mariner 6,                                Launch: Feb. 24, 1969
  • Mariner 7,                              Launch: Mar. 27, 1969
  • Mariner 8,                             Launch: May 8, 1971
  • Mariner 9,                                  Launch: May 30, 1971;     Arrival: Nov. 13, 1971
  • Viking 1, Launch: Aug. 20, 1975; Arrival: Jun. 19, 1976
  • Viking 2, Launch: Sept. 9, 1975; Arrival: Aug. 7, 1976
  • Mars Observer, Launch: Sept. 25, 1992
  • Mars Pathfinder, Launch: Dec. 4, 1996
  • Mars Climate Orbiter, Launch: Dec. 11, 1998
  • Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2, Launch: Jan. 3, 1999
  • Mars Global Surveyor, Launch: Nov. 7, 1996; Arrival: Sept. 12, 1997
  • Phoenix, Launch: Aug. 4, 2007; Arrival: May 25, 2008

    • ]]>     2017-10-25 19:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/wuennas/ad2cw1v7n4td/wish/200584741     People Living on Mars wuennas https://padlet.com/wuennas/ad2cw1v7n4td/wish/203443038
  • Mars is rich with resources that could be vital to supporting astronauts in living on mars for a long time
  • Instead of launching resources such as water and materials to build a living space on mars 
  • This  could be much more cost effective than sending automated robots to get resources from the Mars’s surface and atmosphere in preparation for the arrival of humans.
  • NASA wants to send humans to the mars by 2030, and SpaceX wants to get there even sooner, with plans to have people there by 2024.
  • The atmosphere of Mars is mostly carbon dioxide, and the surface of the planet is too cold to support human life
  • The planet’s gravity is 38% of Earth’s. Plus,
  • The atmosphere on Mars is equivalent to about 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere at sea level. That makes getting to the surface tricky.
  • When Earth and Mars are closest to each other, the trip will take a mere 260 days.

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  • Bennett, Jay. “Almost Everything We Need to Live on Mars Is Already There.” Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2016, www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a21330/nasa-wants-martian-resources-for-martian-colony/.
  • Greicius, Tony. “Mars Exploration Past Missions.” NASA, NASA, 13 Mar. 2015, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/missions/index-past.html.
  • Megan Ray Nichols  | 
    Published: Wednesday, May 3, 2017. “If We Successfully Land on Mars, Could We Live There?” Astronomy.com, www.astronomy.com/news/2017/05/could-we-live-on-mars.
    • 4. Basher, Simon. Astronomy: Out of This World! Kingfisher Publications, Plc, 2010

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