after years of watching sci fi movies do
it we’re finally searching for life on
the Red Planet hi I’m Rebecca Brayton
and welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’ll be shedding some light on the
Phoenix Mars mission tell us about the
Mars mission the Mars mission is really
something that’s very unique right now
in exploration of planets first off it’s
an international mission the Phoenix
lander which landed end of May of this
year is is unique because it’s landed in
the Far North of Mars this is the first
time we’re actually exploring the
northern Arctic region of another planet
it’s a really neat mission because it’s
going to be looking for water and that’s
really the mantra of NASA’s exploration
of the red planet is looking for water
because we think water is a key
ingredient for life how did they finally
managed to get there this mission has
been in the works for over five years
and it took over 10 months for the probe
to actually arrive at Mars and the last
nine minutes which where it enters the
atmosphere of Mars and lands is the most
nail-biting time for the team who
mission team because there’s been so
many failures tell us about the red
planet about Mars Mars is really a
planet of extremes and i’d say probably
it’s going to be a key destination for
any extreme sport lovers it has the
largest mountain in the solar system on
Olympus three times higher than Mount
Everest it has the largest canyon system
that would span the entire North
American continent it’s three times
deeper than the Grand Canyon it’s just
got huge amounts of craters it’s got
deserts it’s a very inhospitable world
though because the average temperature
during the daytime is minus 80 degrees
Celsius goes down to minus 150 degrees
at nighttime and sandstorms can kick up
to a hundred and fifty kilometers per
hour winds can studying Mars tell us
anything about Earth this is going to
help us understand the climate change
that we’re experiencing here on earth so
by looking at other dynamic weather
systems on other worlds and Mars is the
most earth-like it’ll help us basically
better the computer models that we use
to track everything to understand
things like the Hurricanes like
Hurricane Katrina have there been any
discoveries yet when Phoenix had landed
the thrusters that helped it touch down
so gently basically brushed away the
topsoil and exposed fresh ice water ice
and that was like the most amazing thing
and of course the robotic arm that’s
attached to the lander has been scraping
up this ice and analyzing it what is the
future for humans on Mars right now nASA
has a plan a long-term plan of sending
humans to Mars by the year 2030 and a
key component is as bringing resources
and now that we found water on Mars this
is going to alleviate a lot of problems
water of course can be used to not just
makes a greenhouses make food for us and
drink drink the water but also to make
rocket propellant it’s a key ingredient
for making fuel for rockets which would
allow them to to come back home humans
will probably land within the next few
decades on the on the red planet well
thank you very much thank you
it we’re finally searching for life on
the Red Planet hi I’m Rebecca Brayton
and welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’ll be shedding some light on the
Phoenix Mars mission tell us about the
Mars mission the Mars mission is really
something that’s very unique right now
in exploration of planets first off it’s
an international mission the Phoenix
lander which landed end of May of this
year is is unique because it’s landed in
the Far North of Mars this is the first
time we’re actually exploring the
northern Arctic region of another planet
it’s a really neat mission because it’s
going to be looking for water and that’s
really the mantra of NASA’s exploration
of the red planet is looking for water
because we think water is a key
ingredient for life how did they finally
managed to get there this mission has
been in the works for over five years
and it took over 10 months for the probe
to actually arrive at Mars and the last
nine minutes which where it enters the
atmosphere of Mars and lands is the most
nail-biting time for the team who
mission team because there’s been so
many failures tell us about the red
planet about Mars Mars is really a
planet of extremes and i’d say probably
it’s going to be a key destination for
any extreme sport lovers it has the
largest mountain in the solar system on
Olympus three times higher than Mount
Everest it has the largest canyon system
that would span the entire North
American continent it’s three times
deeper than the Grand Canyon it’s just
got huge amounts of craters it’s got
deserts it’s a very inhospitable world
though because the average temperature
during the daytime is minus 80 degrees
Celsius goes down to minus 150 degrees
at nighttime and sandstorms can kick up
to a hundred and fifty kilometers per
hour winds can studying Mars tell us
anything about Earth this is going to
help us understand the climate change
that we’re experiencing here on earth so
by looking at other dynamic weather
systems on other worlds and Mars is the
most earth-like it’ll help us basically
better the computer models that we use
to track everything to understand
things like the Hurricanes like
Hurricane Katrina have there been any
discoveries yet when Phoenix had landed
the thrusters that helped it touch down
so gently basically brushed away the
topsoil and exposed fresh ice water ice
and that was like the most amazing thing
and of course the robotic arm that’s
attached to the lander has been scraping
up this ice and analyzing it what is the
future for humans on Mars right now nASA
has a plan a long-term plan of sending
humans to Mars by the year 2030 and a
key component is as bringing resources
and now that we found water on Mars this
is going to alleviate a lot of problems
water of course can be used to not just
makes a greenhouses make food for us and
drink drink the water but also to make
rocket propellant it’s a key ingredient
for making fuel for rockets which would
allow them to to come back home humans
will probably land within the next few
decades on the on the red planet well
thank you very much thank you
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