Becoming A Martian

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for science. So for Science we watched a video together from Chris Hadfield talking about his experience on being in space. He also talked about the pros and cons from the whole trip. The next thing we had to do was interdependently read an article about becoming a martian.

A mission to Mars or from Mars to Earth can occur every twenty- six months when the planets are the closest together in their orbit.  If you were to go on a trip to space or out of space not during this time it will become difficult to get the rocket to the other planet because they are not at their closest point. Two geological features of Mars are number one Mars is known as the red planet it is red because of the amount of iron oxide on it another geological feature is the polar ice caps.

One of the possible solutions to the lack of oxygen on Mars is there is a machine that splits carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen so that will increase the amount of oxygen on mars NASA planned to send the machine this year.

Since it doesn't rain on Mars you must be wondering where the water comes from well it comes from the polar ice caps beneath the frozen carbon dioxide the only thing is the water is filled with toxic salts so you would have to purify the water the only other thing is sticking to purifying and drinking their urine.

Since their are solutions to getting water you might be thinking how are they going to get food. Well they have considered trying to grow plants on Mars but they would need to change the atmosphere into a similar one to Earths. They already use something other than soil called hydroponics, they could also use special nutrient rich water but if you wanted to live on the Mar's you would have to make the atmosphere similar to Earth's. If Mars was warmer it would heighten the chance of growing plants. They could make Mars warmer by getting giant mirrors and they could orbit mars and direct sunlight on the polar ice caps this would thaw all the carbon dioxide.

I hope you enjoy this blog post.