The Journey to the Red Planet: Uncovering the Timeline.
Introduction:-
Mars is a planet we can call that red planet also because the color of the planet is red. humans want to go on Mars for research that humans can live on Mars or not. If not so how we can make the mars for survival. Determining the travel time to Mars is important because Mars is the closest planet to the Earth and it is home to the red planet. The planet is about 6,400 miles (10,000 kilometres) away from the Earth. It takes an incredible amount of time to reach Mars. The purpose of the article is to know more about Mars
Factors Affecting the Trip to Mars:-
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if talk about distance of mars
so astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini is measured the Distance between
Earth and Mars (131.99 million km)
Mars has an orbit with a semimajor axis
of 1.524 astronomical units (228 million kilometres), and an eccentricity of
0.0934. The planet orbits the Sun in 687 days and travels 9.55 AU in doing so,
making the average orbital speed 24 km/s.
NASA aims to launch astronauts to Mars
by the late 2030s or early 2040s. Making that vision a reality will be
challenging.
The Mars 2020
rover, Perseverance, is based on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover
configuration. It is car-sized, about 10 feet long (not including the
arm), 9 feet wide, and 7 feet tall (about 3 meters long, 2.7 meters wide, and
2.2 meters tall)
The main reason is
that it takes a whole lot of rocket fuel to send supplies and astronauts to
Mars. Even in favorable scenarios where Earth and Mars line up every 26 months,
a humans-to-Mars mission still requires 1,000 to 4,000 metric tons of
propellant.
Humans will need self-sustaining water, food and oxygen to survive on Mars. Extracting water locked up in ice will be crucial, but with the recent discovery of flowing water on Mars may not be too difficult.
Historical Attempts to Reach Mars:-
India successfully placed a spacecraft into Mars orbit, and became the first country to do so in its maiden attempt. India's ISRO is the fourth space agency
Mars 6 crash landed, while Mars 7 didn't land at all. It was only in 1976 that the US sent anything to Mars. Viking 1 and Viking 2 both landed successfully on Mars, becoming the first two operational landers. The 1980s saw the Soviet Union's two Phobos missions, both of which failed because of computer issues
How far is Mars from Earth?
Mars is about 2.5 times farther from Earth than the moon is. It's also about 40% smaller and has only one-eighth the gravity. So, if you were to stand on the Martian surface, you would feel very unsteady.
Breadcrumb. This month the “launch window” opens for a mission to Mars. This is the span of time approximately every 26 months when the Earth and Mars are in orbital positions around the Sun that allow for a trip to Mars to last around 7 to 9 months.
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