Humans have long felt a connection with the Red Planet. The Romans named the planet after their god of war. More recently, popular culture imagined strange Martians building canals — and even invading Earth. Lately, Mars is looking like humanity’s new frontier.
Will humans live on Mars someday?
In “In a Dome in Hawaii, a Mission to Mars” Kenneth Chang writes:
On the way to Mars, Neil Scheibelhut stopped by Walmart for mouthwash and dental floss. “We’re picking up some last-minute things,” he said via cellphone last Wednesday afternoon from the store.
Mr. Scheibelhut is not actually an astronaut leaving the earth. But three hours later, he and five other people stepped into a dome-shaped building on a Hawaiian volcano where they will live for the next eight months, mimicking a stay on the surface of Mars.
This is part of a NASA-financed study, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or Hi-Seas for short. The goal is to examine how well a small group of people, isolated from civilization, can get along and work together.
When astronauts finally head toward Mars years from now — NASA has penciled the 2030s — it will be a long and lonely journey: about six months to Mars, 500 days on the planet, and then another six months home.
Students: Read the entire article, then answer TWO of the following questions … After you answer TWO questions respond to at least THREE other responses.
– Will humans live on Mars someday? Do you think people will ever colonize the Red Planet — for example, if Earth becomes too crowded?
– How soon do you think astronauts will land on Mars? For example, NASA has plans to send a human mission to Mars in the 2030s. Do you think that will happen?
– Do you think ordinary people will ever make interplanetary space trips, the way people take intercontinental plane rides today?
– Do you think life exists, or has ever existed, somewhere besides Earth, such as on Mars?
Will humans live on Mars someday?
In “In a Dome in Hawaii, a Mission to Mars” Kenneth Chang writes:
On the way to Mars, Neil Scheibelhut stopped by Walmart for mouthwash and dental floss. “We’re picking up some last-minute things,” he said via cellphone last Wednesday afternoon from the store.
Mr. Scheibelhut is not actually an astronaut leaving the earth. But three hours later, he and five other people stepped into a dome-shaped building on a Hawaiian volcano where they will live for the next eight months, mimicking a stay on the surface of Mars.
This is part of a NASA-financed study, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or Hi-Seas for short. The goal is to examine how well a small group of people, isolated from civilization, can get along and work together.
When astronauts finally head toward Mars years from now — NASA has penciled the 2030s — it will be a long and lonely journey: about six months to Mars, 500 days on the planet, and then another six months home.
Students: Read the entire article, then answer TWO of the following questions … After you answer TWO questions respond to at least THREE other responses.
– Will humans live on Mars someday? Do you think people will ever colonize the Red Planet — for example, if Earth becomes too crowded?
– How soon do you think astronauts will land on Mars? For example, NASA has plans to send a human mission to Mars in the 2030s. Do you think that will happen?
– Do you think ordinary people will ever make interplanetary space trips, the way people take intercontinental plane rides today?
– Do you think life exists, or has ever existed, somewhere besides Earth, such as on Mars?