Mars is the closest planet to Earth but at the same time they are completely different. Mars is a dust bowl of red dirt and is very barren from what we understand there is nothing living on Mars. The soil on Mars lacks a lot of things for something to grow like the nutrients and lack of oxygen and water. But Watney makes uses his botanist skills to overcome great odds and actually grow plants on Mars. Watney Used a mixture of ingenuity and crap to make this possible he took soil from Mars and brought it into the HAB where he was able to make the soil have nutrients which is key for growing plants. Next he placed potatoes that NASA had given the crew for a thanksgiving dinner into the soil to produce more. He then set up an irrigation system …show more content…
Well with the Mars atmosphere being about roughly 100 times less dense than Earth's atmosphere would this huge dust storm make that big of an impact as it did in the book and movie. Well Occasionally, winds on Mars are strong enough to create dust storms that cover much of the planet. After such storms, it can be months before all of the dust settles. The maximum wind speeds recorded by the Viking Landers in the 1970's were about 30 meters per second (60 miles an hour) with an average of 10 m/s (20 mph). Just as on Earth, at certain latitudes, the winds tend to blow in certain directions (Quest). This being said the wind speeds in the Martian atmosphere would feel dramatically less than it sounds. It would feel more like a slight breeze which the only hindrance would be the dust particles which could make visibility close to zero and block sunlight so solar power would be near impossible. Andy Weir in an interview with Google stated “I tried to make the book as accurate as I could. The biggest place that’s inaccurate – don’t tell anybody – but if you’re in a dust storm on Mars, you’re not even going to feel it. Mars’ atmosphere is less than one percent of Earth’s. So a 150-km/hour wind would feel like about a 1-km/hour wind does on Earth. It wouldn’t do any damage to anything. Shhh
The farmers had torn out millions of miles of prairie grass so that they could farm there. Without the grass, dust began to kick up and storm around the air causing dust storms.
To begin with the “Dust Bowl” was one of the causes of economic fallout which resulted in the Great Depression because the “Dust Bowl” destroyed crops which were used to sell and make profit and the government had to give up a lot of money in order to try and help the people and land affected by the “Dust Bowl”. The “Dust Bowl” is referring to a time during the 1930’s where the Great Plains region was drastically devastated by drought. All of the including areas (Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico) all had little to no rainfall, light soil, and high winds, which were not a very suitable combination. The drought lasted from 1934 to 1937, most of the soil during the drought lacked the better root system of grass. Therefore it was easy for the
They were not a force to be reckoned with. In the movie The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns, it states that the storms reached a height of 10,000 feet high. The movie also states that, the results of the dust storm was horrifying such as feet of sand, people being buried alive, animals along with crop dying because of these storms.
The Martian is a story that involves a visit to the mars, and after that, the astronauts come out of the Mars leaving behind Mark Watney who his real name is Matt Damon. The team assumed Mark was dead after a strong storm. He tried to survive with the remains of the supplier till he was able to launch his way back to the Earth (MacIsaac, 2015). The story is represented in the Novel, and a movie and these two platforms have some similarities and differences. The movie is the representation of what is happening in the book. Therefore, not everything that it is in the book is covered in the one and half film, therefore several scenarios are left out.
These dust storms were composed of strong winds that blew across dry, cultivated soil for hundreds of miles, which could remain active for ten hours or more (Hansen, 667). The storms actually had the potential to drag on for days on end. In 1939, for example, one storm stopped blowing for more than one hundred hours. The Dust Bowl impacted a large portion of the state ranging from Colorado to Washington D.C. More than one million acres were affected all together.
The “Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s”, was written by Donald Worster, who admits wanted to write the book for selfish reasons, so that he would have a reason o visit the Southern Plains again. In the book he discusses the events of the “dirty thirties” in the Dust Bowl region and how it affected other areas in America. “Dust Bowl” was a term coined by a journalist and used to describe the area that was in the southern planes in the states of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, between the years of 1931 and 1939. This area experienced massive dust storms, which left dust covering everything in its wake. These dust storms were so severe at times that it made it so that the visibility in the area was so low to where people
Art made with video is not the type of artwork that comes to mind when a museum is mentioned. Combining video with sculpture is a very unique form of art that a few explore successfully such as Tony Oursler. Oursler has taken art into another realm with video that could have not been thought imaginable as he brings his sculptures to life and gives them personality while touching on topics that are considered part of people’s private lives and human behavior. (Reservechannel). Sitting and observing one of Oursler’s sculptures evokes a different experience in comparison to looking at an inanimate sculpture or two dimensional artwork.
In the book The Martian by Andy Weir, Mark Watney is thought to be dead and left on Mars after a sandstorm during Sol 6. Mark has to survive with what’s left on mars and through many obstacles and tribulations in his fight to survive. The way Mark’s character broadens from start to finish shows that Mark is witty, rational, and driven.
It's an object lesson in civilization. " We'll learn from Mars" (pp. 55. The aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid a Throughout the story, Earth man,especially American think that they are superior to the Martian. Earth man can do anything and knows everything. However, Bradbury's message is to tell them it is not true.
Imagine, sitting in your house when a cloud of suffocating dust fumes in to your home. You have nothing left to do but sit there and breath in the toxicated air, you're in the middle of a dust storm, that's exactly what happened in 1930. In the 1930s giant storms of dust would cover the plains. The series of dust storms was known as the Dust Bowl. We have both mankind and nature to thank for the heavy clouds of dust. Since new farming technology had taken over the traditional way of farming, farmers began to remove the native plants that secured the dirt to the ground allowing the dirt to create giant storms.The dust bowl affected farmers in the United States by losing their land and stock, to migrate to California, and it effected their income.
The 1930s in America was a time in history that goes down infamously known as The Great Depression. The Great Depression transpired from October 29, 1929 all the way to 1939, a vast ten years. At this juncture, individuals and the country as a whole were susceptible to downfall in the economic field. From this disadvantage, every other component of each citizen’s life was negatively impacted as well. One of the major events happening at the time was extreme poverty due to the stock market crash that started it all. Photograph number six perfectly illustrates poverty and lack of self-sufficiency because they are giving food to the poor and jobless that could not take care of themselves due to the sudden money conflict. This connects to image
	People inevitably encounter many problematic situations in their lifetime. Some problems may be more serious than others, but the fact remains that it is alsways their choice as to how they will react and whether or not they will "sink or swim." A survivor is aperson who, depite whatever hardships they encounter, will face their problems head on and will not back down. They always do whatever humanly possible overcome these obstaclsand supersede eveyone’s excpectations and sometimes even their own. Such people share common characteristics ; steadfest courage, the ability to adapt and adjust and a perservering attitude. Through Jim and Masdeline Dubois the central characters in Dust Over the City, the author presents such a case as shown through their many ordeals and their reactions to them. This is evident in their encounter with other and Alains patients, their battle with loneliness and the decision to move to the mining town, adjusting to the new city and accepting the fact with little provisions this is where they must live now. In Andre Langevins novel Dust Over the City the characters Alain and Madeline are the embodiment of two people that are newly wed and the problems that each other face may or may not be normal.
By surmounting the obstacles placed in front of him, how the hero responds shows his true nature and makes his reward that much more worthwhile. Mars is the ultimate enemy in this novel, and it does not care about Mark’s health or survival. It is therefore up to him to use his own ingenuity and training to figure out how to survive. Things for him start out rough: he wakes up, after being impaled by an antenna ray, to find out his crew has abandoned him on Mars. From here on out, Watney must decide how to grow a food source and make use of the resources leftover from the Ares 3 mission to last until the Ares 4 mission. Furthermore, he survives several explosions to the Hab, multiple grueling trips in the landrover, a giant duststorm, having the rover and attached trailer flipped over while going down an incline, and being launched into space. In a way, Watney essentially achieves immortality status. Being stuck on Mars should have meant automatic death, yet he manages to pull himself together, form a plan, and adapt whenever the plan fails and nearly kills him. This also reveals a lot about his character. With the occasional much-deserved griping, Watney meets every setback with sarcasm and the grim reality that he could die at any point before his rescue. He does not complain or excessively lament about his situation like Väinämӧinen did, but instead
Mars is our next best hope in life on another planet. Because of science mankind can grow and harvest plants in the modified mars soil, make a thick warm atmosphere, and drink no frozen mars water. Mankind can grow and flourish more as a species with this idea of colonizing mars. With more scientific advancements we can colonize mars and we will colonize mars.
Mars, the beautiful red planet, is the most similar planet to earth. The terrain in general is very close to what we are used to on earth, minus the vegetation. Earth and Mars both contain polar ice caps. Mars also has water throughout the planet, but it is mostly subsoil.