

This July, the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates all launched spacecraft bound on the seven-month journey to the Red Planet.
Mankind has been sending missions to Mars since the 1960s, but just eight spacecraft have successfully landed there. If this summer’s missions succeed, China’s rover will be the first Chinese craft on Mars. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Mars orbiter will make the UAE the first Middle Eastern country to join the “We Made It to Mars” club. So far only the United States, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and India can claim that distinction.
Mars landing is old news for the United States, but its Perseverance rover has new work to do when it lands on Mars this winter. The six-wheeled bot will search part of Mars never before explored by spacecraft and start NASA’s Mars rock collection, which a later mission will carry to Earth.
Since “endurance produces character,” (Romans 5:4) rocket scientists should have a lot of character. Space missions can go wrong—and often do—in countless ways. Yet scientists endure. They go back to the marker board again and again because they yearn to know what lies beyond Earth. They want to find out whether life once existed on Mars and if it could exist there again.
How will they know if Mars life was or is possible? They’re looking for the presence of life-sustaining water. U.S. rovers Spirit and Opportunity touched down on Mars in 2004. These robotic geologists snapped photos. They used their mechanical arms to analyze rocks and soil, eventually determining that water once existed on Mars. NASA’s Phoenix lander tested Martian water for the first time in July 2008. The robot confirmed: Frozen water lurks under the frigid Martian ground.
Ever dreamed of living on Mars? Some scientists are planning a Mars city . . . seriously! But they must conquer many challenges before that’s possible. Mars is coooold, averaging temperatures of 60 degrees below zero. How can people build habitats there? What resources will they use, and what will they do with garbage they create?
Just getting to Mars is incredibly difficult. How could astronauts possibly construct a city there? Scientists propose: Send robots first. Program them to build a home for people.
News of successful—or not-so-successful—landings for all three nations should arrive around February. And “not-so-successful” is the norm for Mars landings. Failed spacecraft litter the planet’s rocky surface.
The artist's rendition of
The artist's rendition of Mars looks like something from Halo.
Interesting,...there is no
Interesting,...there is no life on Mars.....never will be...I'm so positive i know xD
Star Wars
Maybe they could make star wars -type space ships like X- Wings and TIE Fighters
When (if) they make that city on Mars
If you could live on Mars for
If you could live on Mars for free, would you?
Not gonna happen
Not gonna happen
well you never know...
well it might happen someday...
@ Eilise
That would be SOOO terrific if they could actually make Star Wars things for real
@ Nathaniel
Of course! Well...., maybe. Actually not really. If I could take someone with me I would. I would never go by myself. And hopefully I wouldn’t die the second I got there because I forgot my spacesuit.
Lightsaber
We could use lightsabers to defend ourselves from bad guys!
WOW
Ive always wanted to go to mars bet every mission was a fail,go read the balloon space one if you like space:)
This is London
Who here likes Star Wars me!! God made earth for us to live so why live where he didn’t plan. I don’t want to live in mars period.
this is Mylee
Yay i am glad that they are making discovieries and exploring ! It would be fun to be in star wars. Ellise and Mirela we could all be Neighbors ! in space And a lightsaber would be super cool! We may not be alive when it happens. Might be our great grandchildren. But I love earth that is what God created for us to live in. It's perfect for us I
probaly would just stay here lol.
Burn some fossil fuels
If they want to warm our planet, then they should move all the big factories to mars! That would warm it up with all the CO2 in the air! Do you think that would even work?
@Above
This is an interesting idea, and I hope that Perseverance can land and get good information, but I personally would never want to live there. It would be such a change from Earth, there would be somethings that you would never get used to. Like I personally like a nice yard, so that would be one thing. All there would be is red dirt. But the less gravity would sure be a lot of fun!!!!!! :) ;)
@above
I can agree that it would be strange to have a rock garden, but maybe earth could import soil or something like that. I guess as technology improves, we might be able to change the atmosphere to allow for plants to grow. Who knows, maybe there will even be some kind of space flowers!
YA
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It looks like there's a yeti cooler by the astronauts :-)
YEAAAAAAAAH!
MARS COLONY!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmmm...
Hmmm,.... this sound very cool i wish them good luck, although I'm not too sure about living on mars I don't think id ever do that (⊙o⊙)
Mars?
Mars? Some people want to live on Mars?
No. We won't stay on Earth forever.
We will go to Heaven one day as the LORD promised.