The Mars Scene: Moon And Mars

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The path to Mars goes through the moon — or the region of space near the moon, anyway. NASA aims to put boots on Mars in the 2030s after first gathering human-spaceflight experience and expertise in low Earth orbit and the "proving ground" of cis-lunar Now scientists have revealed they have already come up with a system that can produce sweet potatoes and strawberries in poor conditions, which could one day be used on Mars or the moon. Their aim is to work out how to grow crops on planets without the Share your views of space and stars with CNN iReport. (CNN)Mars is getting all the space-related love these days with the release of Matt Damon's hit film "The Martian," but what about the moon? Unlike Mars, we've actually been there, and there's a huge The 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon would be a fine occasion to kick off a serious effort to put astronauts on Mars, Buzz Aldrin says. Buzz Aldrin would like the president of the United States — whomever it happens to be — to For much of the 19th and even a portion of the 20th Century, mankind wondered what sort of beings, what sort of civilizations might exist on Mars. Much like the moon, Mars has inspired countless writers, poets and filmmakers. The thought of traveling to Kennedy; there was an impetus to beat the Soviet Union to the moon, to assert not just worldwide dominance, but technological dominance. There is no such drive to get humans to Mars. “Unfortunately, you have to run space programs on public interest .

Earth Independent will be the last part of the plan. It will involve sending astronauts to orbit Mars and land on one of its moons. Once that is successfully done, NASA will proceed with landing humans on the actual planet with equipment to explore the first to low-Mars orbit and possibly one of the planet's moons, and then to touch down on the surface. Together, the phases are intended to address three hurdles NASA sees as fundamental in getting to Mars: transportation (the ability for humans and cargo With the recent announcement that liquid water (salty, seeping water) exists on Mars, the Internet erupted with ideas about Water vapor hovering around the moon—which Hubble saw in 2012—also suggests that water sometimes breaks through the cracks Jupiter and Mars will come within 0.5 degrees of each other, less than the apparent width of the Moon, on Friday, October 17. From October 22-29, Venus will join them, and all three planets will be appear within five degrees of each other. The triple .