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    MARS: Our future on the Red Planet
    MARS: Our future on the Red Planet
    MARS: Our future on the Red Planet
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    MARS: Our future on the Red Planet

    By Giove Space

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    Of all the planets, Mars has always fascinated humanity, conferring it strange inhabitants and landscapes. Mars is one of the easiest planets to spot in the night sky; a constant point of red light moving independently through the distant star cluster. Using only a conventional telescope, details of its surface can be distinguished. Further on, for some decades, we have known that this is the planet most similar to Earth and the only one that could harbour life similar to ours.

    In an enjoyable way, the essential details that science has discovered about the red planet are explained, as well as the plans to establish a permanent human presence on the distant Martian soil. The book's chapters include:

    What is Mars like: atmosphere, water, moons, landscape and the possible existence of life.

    Travelling to Mars: types of spacecraft, fuels to use, landing difficulties and how to get to the red planet.

    Our future on Mars: growing crops, terraforming Mars, getting air and water, building shelters, and designing cities.

    The book includes over 40 full-color illustrations, explanatory diagrams and tables, as well as a selection of recommended books.

    Giove Space is a group of space science experts and enthusiasts, and its purpose is to develop educational programs and participate in the dissemination of space-related projects. For more information, please visit our website and follow us on social media.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraviton Books
    Release dateDec 12, 2023
    ISBN9798223902232
    MARS: Our future on the Red Planet

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      MARS - Giove Space

      GIOVE SPACE

      MARS

      Our future on the Red Planet

      with over 40 full-color illustrations

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      Copyright © 2023 Graviton Books

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Why travel to Mars?

      What is Mars like compared to Earth?

      Atmosphere

      Water

      Moons

      Landscape

      Is there life on Mars?

      Why did Mars lose its atmosphere?

      Let's travel to Mars

      Do you still want to go to Mars?

      A Spacecraft for travelling to Mars

      Types of fuel

      Landing on Mars

      Is it possible to simulate a flight to Mars?

      Preparatory visits to the manned trip

      We finally reached land… Martian land!

      Our future on the Red Planet

      Materials

      Crops

      Perchlorate: our friend and our enemy

      Creating an ecosystem to sustain life on Mars

      Terraforming Mars

      Protecting Mars against harmful radiation

      Transmuting water and air

      Importing resources from afar

      What about the natives?

      Martian Cities

      Recommended Readings

      Comparative Data Earth – Mars

      Image Credits

      FOREWORD

      For several decades the exploration and conquest of space has been an unavoidable topic in the scientific programs of developed countries. Nowadays, large companies have joined the space race, in particular those of tycoons such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, who have large projects in development and invest huge amounts of money to achieve their goals. Every day we read news about space missions with various purposes, both scientific and commercial. Among the many developments are space tourism, the development of the internet from space, satellite navigation, deeper knowledge about planets and galaxies, and the program to create a permanent base on the Moon, to name just a few.

      Among the topics to which more interest and money is devoted, stands of course the exploration and conquest of Mars. Today we know that Mars is the closest planet to Earth that could harbour life like our own, and that's why we dedicate this book to Mars. Using accessible language and without using mathematical formulas, the essential details that science has discovered about the red planet are explained, as well as the plans to establish a permanent human presence on its distant soil.

      Giove Space is formed by a group of experts and enthusiasts of space science, and its purpose is the teaching and dissemination of space projects. Our goal with this publication is to offer a concise and entertaining manual to help the understanding of such an important topic which, we have no doubt, will be increasingly relevant in the years to come. We invite you to join us on this journey of discovery.

      The Giove Space Team

      www.giovespace.com

      INTRODUCTION

      Why travel to Mars?

      Since the prehistoric era in which he left his native Africa, humans have always travelled. For what reason? Looking for areas richer in food, or more peaceful, or perhaps without so many natural catastrophes... looking for a place that a priori shelters a better future for his children. As he conquered, man learned to employ the habitat of each new area for his profit: he managed to harvest his food, create his clothes with the elements he had at hand and protect his house against the instabilities of the climate.

      Gradually humans occupied virtually all habitable areas of the continents. Then began the sedentary lifestyle that we still have, where most people are born and die in the same place. However, the will to travel has never ceased: we all move in some way or another. Most people enjoy a purely touristic trip, or travel for work or for personal reasons; but there are also those who venture into the unknown, in the search for wealth or looking for challenges that are not without danger, even without an imperative need to force them to move.

      We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard said the former president of the United States J.F. Kennedy in 1962 when he started the Apollo Program, whose objective was to travel to Earth’s natural satellite. It was the time of the Cold War, which had created a kind of competition with the U.S.S.R on all possible fronts. The so-called space race was a technological, political, and psychological challenge, and the prize was to be the best, to be the first. Just as it happened then with the lunar project, today the desire to reach Mars is not only a challenge, but also a search for transcendence: to extend into new domains,

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