Earth colonies in space
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Earth colonies in space
• Research and exploration• Helping with overpopulation• Because we can and it is
awesome
Why?
• They are both close enough that we can get to them “easily”
• Although their temperatures and gravities are different from earth, we can survive in them with the right equipment
• We know a lot about them (compared to other planets out there) so we can plan better what we would need to live on them
The Moon and Mars: good choices for colonies
• How long would it take to get to mars, stay a few weeks, and then come back?
• About 2 and a half years!! • This is because we would have to wait
until the earth and mars are closest together to fly between them.
• The flight itself takes six months, but people on mars would have to wait one and a half years again before mars and earth are close together once more
Time to mars
• Instead of living on a planet, perhaps people could live on a space station…however, there are problems associated with that• In your notes list five problems
you can think of for people living in a space station
Space stations