Mars?? Whats happening?

Question

Urgently requesting information on the whole Mars issue... Whatz goin on on planet Earth??????????

Answer 1

Pluto just lost it's status as a planet. Nothing's going on with Mars and Earth.

Answer 2

Um, a little more detail to your question might help. What about Mars? What issue? I'll try to give as much detail about what researchers are looking for on Mars, and hopefully that will answer your question.

Being Earth's closest neighbor (aside from the moon, of course), Mars is the next step in reaching out to the stars, as well as potentially making room for our burgeoning population. It's a somewhat hostile place, with surface temperatures ranging from +100 degrees to -100 degrees Fahrenheit in a single day, extremely thin atmosphere and light gravitational pull. It's not shielded from solar radiation that greatly due to the thin air and low magnetic field, and gets periodically hit by meteors that don't get slowed down much by air friction. However, compared to other places in our solar system, it's practically Palm Springs, so it's at least an achievable goal to build a colony there, or at least a research station.

Why build colonies on the moon and Mars? One, because we can (or think we can, at any rate) -- they are an unexplored landscape, and the spirit of adventure takes us ever further into the unknown. Two, the Earth simply cannot sustain the rate of growth that the human population is experiencing; in only a couple of generations, we will have bred ourselves to starvation. Current estimates indicate the planet can support a population of around 14 billion people, and we're almost halfway there. Barring any major conflicts or worldwide epidemics, humans have doubled the population about every generation or so, so we're rapidly using up the planet. Add to that all the pollution, global warming, and the inequities of our various national economies, and you're looking at a planet about to spill over -- unless we can send the surplus somewhere else to live. We either limit ourselves in how rapidly we reproduce and consume resources, or we move a large percentage of the population to colonies in orbit or other planets in the solar system... or we starve to death. That's the future we're looking at; sorry to be depressing, but it's true.

Answer 3

Mars is set till next April .

It's a hoax..
I heard about the Mars hoax and the answer is no . I'll tell you the real scoop on it . In 2003 it was in fact true ! Mars was the closest it's ever been on August 27 2003 .
The next year a New York Observatory reprinted the story again on the August 27th date for a joke . It was hown in the states on the local news and they said " The latest Mars craze is going on again this year , It was said to be started again by a new york observatory as a joke and well it's been listed as spam. And it currently is circulating the internet as a forward . We spoke to our local astronomers to get the story and they showed us where Mars is . Under the horizon till next year. t's completely not true this year , It did actually happen last in 2003 as we all know but this time it's a joke. an April fools joke . No madness intended . "
So it's been floating around for 2 years . Actually there is alot of it going around, crazy emails floating areound of it , observatory phones ringing off the hook .
It has turned into one big hoax . For further reading put in Mars Hoax into google & google news .
Next year the Mars Hoax will float again I bet !


If your interested, you can see more of Mars hoax in the news ..
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=mars+hoax&btnG=Search+News

Answer 4

Mars gets close to Earth every two years. So, last year, Mars was very close. Three years ago, it was spectacularly close ... And right now, Mars is actually behind the Sun; we can't see it at all.

Mars' next close approach to Earth will occur in December 2007, but even then it will still be about 55 million miles away from us, not nearly as close as it was in 2003 or 2005. Not until 2018 will our view of Mars be similar to the one that was available in 2003, and it won't be until the year 2287 that Mars will come closer to Earth than it did back in 2003.

Mars did make an extraordinarily close approach to Earth several years ago, culminating on 27 August 2003, when the red planet came within 35 million miles (or 56 million kilometers) of Earth, its nearest approach to us in almost 60,000 years. At that time, Mars appeared approximately 6 times larger and 85 times brighter in the sky than it ordinarily does.

Although Mars' proximity to Earth in August 2003 was a rare occurrence, the red planet comes almost as near to us every 15 to 17 years. To the unaided observer, Mars' appearance in August 2003 wasn't significantly larger or brighter than it is during those much more common intervals of closeness.

Mars had another close encounter with Earth in in 2005, but that occurrence took place in October (not August), and the red planet appeared about 20% smaller than it did during similar circumstances in 2003.

Answer 5

Hi. Mars is nearly opposite us from the sun. There is a hoax that it will appear this year as a giant object, but that's not true. On Earth? The biggest issue that would be noted by an outside observer is that the natives are killing each other over what their god's name is.

Answer 6

I love this. And I like 3rd rock from the sun, regardless of whether it is original or not. I too sometimes wonder if I will reach such dizzy heights. And share with all the others Red Mars's sweet delights.

Answer 7

Mars issue? Whatz going on on planet Earth? These are poorly asked questions. I think you are to lazy to even ask a proper question. Maybe the reason why you are having a hard time is you are not willing to work hard in the first place. You put everything off and now you are in a panic. Here are the fundamentals on earth and mars.

Mars
Semi-major axis 227,936,637 km (141,632,976 mi)
1.523 662 31 AU
Orbital circumference 1,429,000,000 km (887,900,000 mi)
9.553 AU
Eccentricity 0.093 412 33
Perihelion 206,644,545 km (128,402,967 mi)
1.381 333 46 AU
Aphelion 249,228,730 km (154.863,553 mi)
1.665 991 16 AU
Orbital period 686.9600 d
(1.8808 a)
Synodic period 779.96 d
(2.135 a)
Avg. Orbital Speed 24.077 km/s (53,859 mi/h)
Max. Orbital Speed 26.499 km/s (59,277 mi/h)
Min. Orbital Speed 21.972 km/s (49,150 mi/h)
Inclination 1.850 61°
(5.65° to Sun's equator)
Longitude of the
ascending node 49.578 54°
Argument of the
perihelion 286.462 30°
Number of natural satellites 2
Distance from Sun 1.52 AU

Earth
Aphelion 152,097,701 km
(1.016 710 333 5 AU)
Perihelion 147,098,074 km
(0.983 289 891 2 AU)
Semi-major axis 149,597,887.5 km
(1.000 000 112 4 AU)
Semi-minor axis 149,576,999.826 km
(0.999 860 486 9 AU)
Orbital circumference 924,375,700 km
(6.179 069 900 7 AU)
Orbital eccentricity 0.016 710 219
Sidereal orbit period 365.256 366 d
(1.000 017 5 a)
Synodic period n/a
Max. orbital speed 30.287 km/s
(109,033 km/h)
Average orbital speed 29.783 km/s
(107,218 km/h)
Min. orbital speed 29.291 km/s
(105,448 km/h)
Orbital inclination to ecliptic 0
(7.25° to Sun's equator)
Longitude of the ascending node 348.739 36°
Argument of the perihelion 114.207 83°
Satellites 1 (the Moon)

Answer 8

Check out snopes.com. I got sucked in, should have checked. Rumor began in 2003.

Answer 9

Here's a hint: do a question search on "Mars".

Answer 10

nothing.Mars is simply orbiting round the Sun as usual.