MARS The Red Planet

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MARSThe Red Planet

• Produced ByMission Specialist/Historian Chris
  Symeonides
• Meteorologist Ellie Streiffer
• Geologist Kristen Guidry
• Journalist/Reporter Philip Broderick

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The Redbrier Hotel

• Sister Hotel of the Greenbrier in Virginia, USA,
  Earth
• The only 5 star hotel on the planet Mars
• Free Earthlink cable, golf course, monorail,
  pools, tennis courts, and an observatory

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Guess What?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

• Pets are allowed
• our hotel is in a dome so we have swimming pool,
  plants and oxygen!
• Golf courses and tennis courts galore.

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Travel Information

• Call your airlines for ticket information.
• Hotel cost Suites-160/night. Regular
  room-around 100 depending on size, view, and
  convenience of the room
• Tours 5 for the kids and 7 for the adults
• Tours go to the nearby mountains and landforms
• Call us for current information on specials and
  sales information

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Travel Info(Cont.)

• Be sure to pack skis and warm clothes for our
  simulated ski mountain
• Pack plenty of warm clothes if you are planning
  on taking an outside tour
• Our hotel and weather dome are climate
  controlled, so bring swimsuits and light clothing
• We rent out sports equipment and oxygen suits

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Info about Mars

• Daily Weather -82C to 0C, you should call us
  for the weather since the weather varies at
  different times of the year and there are many
  dust storms
• Atmosphere very thin and composed mostly of
  Carbon Dioxide-you need oxygen suits. Air
  pressure is 100th of the Earths.

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Mars information (continued)

• Geography in the north, the land is very worn
  and resurfaced by lava flows and sediment. In
  the south, it is covered with craters to
  saturation. At different times of the year, the
  poles shrink and grow because of the tilt of the
  axis. The surface is entirely rock and the soil
  is red because of the rust.
• Size diameter is 6785 km-about half of Earths

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The Arts on Mars

• There have been many movies about Mars, with Mars
  being the setting. Most of these involve the
  fictional Martians. The Golden Age of these
  movies was in the 50s, when Americans were
  concerned with nuclear war and cheesy science
  fiction movies were made en masse.
• There has been music influence and inspired by
  the beauty and mysticism of Mars. NASA has
  sponsored a soundtrack of such music.

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Current Events and Missions

• Mars 98 is currently underway. The Martian
  Polar Lander has already been launched, and with
  it two probes which will slam into the surface
  and search for water. The Martian Climate
  Orbiter will circle Mars in search of water.
• Visit our Mars Mission Museum
• Well show you how past earthlings explored Mars
  before it was colonized
• we have the Pathfinder which ran out of power on
  Mars

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Mars Missions

• The Voyager mission was the first spacecraft on
  Mars. It gave us some of the first up close
  photos of Mars.
• The Mars Pathfinder mission landed on Mars in the
  summer of 1997. It brought back to NASA and the
  world some amazing photos of Mars, and conducted
  tests of its soil.
• The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is the most recent
  spacecraft to find information on Mars. It is
  trying to map the Martian surface, and conduct
  tests on the structure and composition of the
  surface.

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Bibliography

• Anderson, Chris. Mars. Online. Internet. 8
  Feb. 1999. Available http//
  www.sff.net/people/ckanderson/mars.htp
• Gallant, Roy A. National Geographic Picture
  Atlas of Our Universe. Washington, D.C.
  National Geographic Society, 1980.
• Simon, Seymour. Our Solar System. New York,
  NY Seymour Simon, 1992.
• Smith, Harman. Space. Online. Internet. 5
  Feb. 1999. Available http//www.sse.jpl.
  nasa.gov

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Bibliographies (cont.)

• University of Michigan. Martian News.
  Online. Internet. 5 Feb. 1999.
  Available http//www.windows.umich.ed
  u.
• Unknown. Spaceviews. Online. Internet. 8
  Feb. 1999. Available http//www.spaceviews.c
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• Vogt, Gregory L. The Solar System. Canada
  Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., 1995.

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