A human mission to Mars has been the subject of science fiction, aerospace engineering, and scientific proposals since the 19th century. Plans include landing on Mars for exploration at a minimum, with the possibility of sending settlers and terraforming the planet.
The exploration of Mars has been a goal of national space programs for decades. They've been on the missions that would involve human explorers, since the 1950s.
In the 2010s, numerous US, European, and Asian agencies were developing proposals for human missions to Mars.
Talking of fiction, Mars has been a frequent target of exploration and settlement in books, graphic novels, and films.
Several types of mission plans have been proposed. The lowest energy transfer to Mars is a Hohmann transfer orbit, which would involve an approximately 9 month travel time from Earth to Mars, about five hundred days at Mars to wait for the transfer window to Earth, and a travel time of about 9 months to return to Earth.
Shorter Mars mission plans have round-trip flight times of 400 to 450 days,but would require significantly higher energy. A fast Mars mission of 245 days round trip could be possible with on-orbit staging, which would be cool.
Conducting a safe landing requires knowledge of the properties of the atmosphere. Orbiters, such as Mars Global Surveyor, 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have mapped Mars in higher resolution with improved instruments.
These surveys have identified the probable locations of water and that's a plus for the critical information needed for better understanding of Mars.
This mission of landing man on Mars is not impossible but the question is when.
Are we close to the time or you think we still have a long way to go?
I think it would be possible within the next 5 years. What's your own thought on this?
The exploration of Mars has been a goal of national space programs for decades. They've been on the missions that would involve human explorers, since the 1950s.
In the 2010s, numerous US, European, and Asian agencies were developing proposals for human missions to Mars.
Talking of fiction, Mars has been a frequent target of exploration and settlement in books, graphic novels, and films.
Several types of mission plans have been proposed. The lowest energy transfer to Mars is a Hohmann transfer orbit, which would involve an approximately 9 month travel time from Earth to Mars, about five hundred days at Mars to wait for the transfer window to Earth, and a travel time of about 9 months to return to Earth.
Shorter Mars mission plans have round-trip flight times of 400 to 450 days,but would require significantly higher energy. A fast Mars mission of 245 days round trip could be possible with on-orbit staging, which would be cool.
Conducting a safe landing requires knowledge of the properties of the atmosphere. Orbiters, such as Mars Global Surveyor, 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have mapped Mars in higher resolution with improved instruments.
These surveys have identified the probable locations of water and that's a plus for the critical information needed for better understanding of Mars.
This mission of landing man on Mars is not impossible but the question is when.
Are we close to the time or you think we still have a long way to go?
I think it would be possible within the next 5 years. What's your own thought on this?
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