by Joshua Feliciano

Planet:Mars-the red planet

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-09 16:07:49 UTC

Habitability factors

NinjaRealm — 2014-10-09 16:14:48 UTC

1.)Water-frozen

2.)Atmosphere-low, life needs to be in space base or under ground.

3.)Temperature-good

4.)Energy-sunlight

5.)Nutrients-has a way to cycle chemicals needed to give life and nutrients.

Challenges to send probe to Mars

NinjaRealm — 2014-10-10 16:26:43 UTC

Its easy to get a probe there because its the closest planet to earth at 87,000 miles and there were many probes that landed there but hard to BUILD a probe because of the modifications after each probe and send it to space. Mankind has been sending probes successfully on the surface of mars since 1976.

Mars

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-10 16:29:26 UTC

How challenging is the surface enviornment

NinjaRealm — 2014-10-10 16:29:42 UTC

The surface environment is challenging because it has twice as much radiation as earth(www.mars.one.com) and Because of the radiation, it gives you a higher chance of getting cancer(USAtoday

Operating the probe

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-10 16:30:27 UTC

We think its very hard to operate a probe there because There was many difficulties such as the rover system and wheels because of the terrain on mars and The response time because it takes about 12.5 minutes for the rover or probe to respond to the action (info from NASA),etc

Space probe on mars

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-12 16:49:24 UTC

The surface of mars

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-12 16:57:14 UTC

By:Joshua Feliciano and Aldrige Tongson, Period 1 Mr. Anderson

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-12 17:00:20 UTC

Likelihood of finding life on Mars

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-12 22:41:33 UTC

The likelihood of finding life on mars is possible because there is proof living bacteria in the soil of Mars.(spaceplace.nasa)

and the bacteria is the basic building block of evolution of life. Man has not even gone underground to see if there is life

underneath the surface of Mars.

Living bacteria on mars

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-12 22:50:56 UTC

Atmosphere:

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-13 00:57:14 UTC

Very thin, made up of 95% carbon dioxide,can help plants grow.

Sources:

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-13 00:58:36 UTC

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-solar-system/life-on-mars.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-09-02/Mars-obstacles-for-humans/57516356/1

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/K4_LifeonMars.html

http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/7126/7622.aspx

https://docs.google.com/a/nhusd.k12.ca.us/presentation/d/1SJZkb-0HdU09bTJxCflzSiPd-5H--eSZyqw9qqr2pxk/edit#slide=id.g39fff19db_10

Benefits of sending a probe

Shadowgun5115 — 2014-10-13 01:05:11 UTC

1.)We can find more evolved life there because

since there is already bacteria which is the basic

form of life.

2.) We can learn more about the planet.