Mars One Presentation for Cashman 2nd Grade

Deck for Skype presentation to 2nd Grade class at the Cashman School

Transcript

1. GOING TO MARS Cashman School May 9, 2016 Peter Degen-Portnoy Mars One Round 3 Candidate Hello Everyone. How are you all today? Has everyone smiled at least one time today?
2. Today I would like to share with you some ideas about how we will live on Mars. But first, let’s start by looking first at all the planets.
3. OUR SOLAR SYSTEM Has every one seen a picture like this before? Who can tell us what we are looking at? My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles One of these is our home. Which one is it?
4. Right! Here is a picture of our home — Earth. What do we know about Earth? It has land, water, and air. Earth also has living things like plants, such as grass and trees, and animals, such as birds, fish, dogs, cats, and us.
5. Earth also has one moon, which we call The Moon. Our moon takes about one month — 28 days — to go around our Earth.
6. Earth and Mars Here is a picture of Earth and Mars together. Lets talk about some of the things that are different between Earth and Mars - size, water, air, clouds, life Let’s talk about some of the things that are similar between Earth and Mars - land, air, ice Of course, this picture shows the two planets right next to each other, but actually they are very far away.
7. This is what Earth looks like from Mars. Just a tiny dot of light in the sky.
8. Even the sun looks different. This is what a sun set looks like here near our home. The blue sky is turning red and all the clouds are lit up by the big ball of the sun sinks over the horizon. TRANSITION And this is what a sun set really looks like on Mars. This was taken by one of the robots that we sent to Mars. The sky is gray and is turning a little blue as the little ball of the sun sinks over the horizon
9. Here is a picture of Mars with it’s two moons. Phobos and Deimos are the names of these two moons. The moons are not nice round balls like our Moon. They look more like tiny potatoes. Phobos is the bigger moon and is closer to Mars than Deimos. Phobos moves so fast that it rises in the West (opposite of our Moon) and sets in the East two times a day!
10. Here is what the two little moons of Mars would look like. Phobos is in the inside and zips around Mars in just over 7 and half hours. Deimos is on the outside and takes about 30 hours — just a bit longer than a day — to go around Mars So, if Mars is so far away, how will we get there?
11. 230 feet
 70 meters When it’s time to go to Mars, and we expect to do that in about 10 years, which will be about when you are done with High School, we will use a rocket like this one — The Space X Falcon 9 Heavy. Here’s how big it is: TRANSITION 100 TRANSITION 200 TRANSITION and 30 feet TRANSITION (label) That’s a big number and I find it hard to see just how big that really is, so let’s try another way. Have you all seen or been in a school bus? One of the big ones? Can you imagine one of those school buses turned so that it stands up on its back so the front of the bus points up into the sky? OK, if you have that, here is the question: How many school busses would it take, one on top of the other, to get all the way to the top of the rocket? Let’s see:
12. The Mars 100 So, to live on Mars, we are going to select some of people from these 100 candidates. Can you see my picture in there? I’m over here on the right TRANSITION But, before any people go to Mars, we’re going to get things all set up and ready.
13. One of the first things we will do is send up a test mission with two satellites so we can always talk to robots, rovers, (and eventually people) on Mars.
14. The Mars One Rover Then we will send some rovers. The rovers will find a good spot for our homes and supply units
15. Mars One Modules These modules will be sent to Mars two years before the first people. The rovers will pull them into position and set up solar panels to make electricity. Then the rovers start putting soil with ice into the Life Support Units. The Life Support Units make the air and water that the people need.
16. Ready For People After the modules have electricity, air and water, they are ready for people. You can see that these are ready for people because there is an inflated part in the back, which is were we will live. Then it will be time for the first people to go to Mars
17. Going To Mars The first people will ride in a space ship called the transit vehicle for about seven months. Let’s see; if we were all to go to Mars today, when would we arrive? How far away is seven months? Well, it’s after school ends, and after the summer ends, and after your next year of school starts. Seven months from now is almost to Christmas! If I get to go to Mars, then it will take me the same amount of time to get there. Imagine being inside one of those yellow school busses with three of your best friends for such a long, long time! By the time we do go, in about 10 years, we will be very ready.
18. Living On Mars Regolith After traveling for seven months, we will land on Mars and the rovers will bring us close to our habitats. Then we will put on our Mars suits and walk a little way to our new home. We will mostly live in the back parts, which will be covered in Mars soil called “regolith”. TRANSITION Let’s try saying that together —“regolith”
19. Our Homes On Mars The back parts will be inflated and we will put up the walls and build the furniture. Then we will start growing food.
20. Our Homes On Mars We will have comfortable places to live. We will be able to get and send email and video mail. People on Earth will be able to watch us on television every day. And we will be able to watch some movies and television too. However, we will have a lot to do. We will have to keep all the equipment working. The equipment will make our air and water, keep us warm, recycle our dirty air and water, and monitor all of our systems. We will also have to grow all our food, although we will have enough supplies to last a long time. Long enough to get more help if needed.
21. Our Homes On Mars Growing food will be very important. We won’t have any stores and it will take seven months at the very least before new things can be sent from Earth. However, we will have 10 years to learn and practice growing food so we can live on our own on Mars. Is there any food that you would like to grow on Mars?
22. Living On Mars Every two years, four more settlers will come to Mars. Very quickly, we will have a small village with lots of friends. Maybe when you are bigger, you will come to Mars to work or even to live. There will be a lot of interesting things to do like studying space, studying the planet, building machines, making things people need, fixing things, doing science experiments, and exploring new parts of Mars, our Solar System and our Universe.
23. The Next Great Adventure for Humanity
24. • Planets: http://www.cosmicelk.net/solarsystem.jpg • Earth and Mars: http://mars.nasa.gov/images/mep/allaboutmars/quickfacts/mars-earth-comparison.jpg • Earth from Mars: http://www.harrisonruess.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/PIA17936-annotated.jpg • Earth Rotation: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57760 • Earth & Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6FkABFcQY • Mars & Moons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYa_M2CkrTY • Orbits of Phobos and Deimos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbits_of_Phobos_and_Deimos.gif • Mars One Images: http://www.mars-one.com • Communication Satellite: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/space/photo/pressrelease/ dscs-pr-TS0087-XB-02_7.jpg Sources