Earth colonies in space

• Research and exploration• Helping with overpopulation• Because we can and it is

awesome

Why?

• They are both close enough that we can get to them “easily”

• Although their temperatures and gravities are different from earth, we can survive in them with the right equipment

• We know a lot about them (compared to other planets out there) so we can plan better what we would need to live on them

The Moon and Mars: good choices for colonies

• How long would it take to get to mars, stay a few weeks, and then come back?

• About 2 and a half years!! • This is because we would have to wait

until the earth and mars are closest together to fly between them.

• The flight itself takes six months, but people on mars would have to wait one and a half years again before mars and earth are close together once more

Time to mars

• Instead of living on a planet, perhaps people could live on a space station…however, there are problems associated with that• In your notes list five problems

you can think of for people living in a space station

Space stations