The brand new Snapchat space series has just been launched by Futura: Swipe Into Space! On the program, answers to the many questions we ask ourselves about the cosmos. For this ninth episode, set off on a journey to our neighboring planet Mars, also nicknamed the Red Planet!
Notice to lovers of SnapchatFutura is launching a brand new children’s series on space and the sciences of the Universe: Swipe Into Space. Through dynamic episodes of approximately three minutes, sprinkled with grandiose illustrations and face-to-face sequences, you will discover many mysteries of the cosmosof the edge of the universe to the formation of our planet.
Each week, Thibaut, from the editorial staff of Futura, will answer one of the many questions that we could ask ourselves. How was the Moon ? What is the Starshipthis rocket new generation that promises to send men to Mars? How does a spacewalk take place? What fate awaits our Universe? What if we could travel to the speed of light ?
In this ninth episode: the colonization of Mars
What if we set off to explore the planet closest to us located some 200 million kilometers away, namely Mars? It’s NASA’s crazy project, but not only! Also announced by Elon Muskthe colonization of mars could well happen in the next 10 years, although there are still many hurdles to overcome for this. After having sent probes and rovers there, this time we would send humans. But a trip to Mars takes between six and nine months depending on its position relative to Earth, and theweightlessness is not without effect on the human body, on the contrary.
And once you arrive on the Red Planet, you still have to live there! And the difficulties are many. First, the climate inhospitable: theatmosphere of Mars being very thin, it is very cold there, around -63°C. In addition, the desert landscape portends great difficulty in growing anything there. But above all, cosmic rays. They are diverted to Earth by his magnetic field, and then stopped by its atmosphere. But on Mars, they bombard its surface. Thus, the place of martian colonization must take this into account, for example the installation could be done within caves, which partly protect from these rays. Unless it is possible to terraform Mars? To find out more, you will have to go to Swipe Into Space !
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