Persuasive Essay: Should We Go To Mars?

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Should We Go To Mars?

Mars is a planet that is very cold and barren. NASA says it will bring new answers into the scientific world by exploring Mars from human eyes. We should not put forth a human mission to mars because of the lack of requirements it has to support life. We are also iin trillion dollars in dept and supporting a mission to Mars would make us even more id dept. You will also be on a rocket that takes 1 year at best to get to Mars. That ride alone puts you at a great risk of cancer because of the cosmic radiation.

First off, Mars doesn't have requirements to support life. It has a surface temperature of an average of -67oF. But in the winter it reaches up to -207oF, and in the summer of Mars, the highest temp. recorded is 80oF in the day. Adjacent to the average temperatures of Mars, there is also a high chance for cancer due to the very thin atmosphere of the planet. So with UV radiation from our sun bleeding through the very thin atmosphere of Mars, the soil has been very long since being able to plant successfully. Speaking about the soil, we have no idea if the soil is harmful to us from all that radiation, and if it is then the sandstorms that
The total debt. we are in is approximately $18,152,981,685,747.52. This means we would have to buy certain items from Russia to help our mission to Mars and then we would be even more in debt. "On its cost and schedule trajectory, Constellation would have created a gap of at least seven years—until 2017 at the earliest—during which we would have had to continue to purchase Soyuz launches and capsules from Russia, to use for crew change-outs and as lifeboats for the International Space Station [ISS]." -Gale Database - NASA has bigger priorities. And if we fund a mission to Mars and beyond, what would the other countries think of our investment. We are not paying them because we want to achieve a certain goal that is quite risky for science and for human

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