frontier with the landing on the moon in 1969. That single monumental step unlocked the mental

gateway for space colonization. From that point on there was little doubt: outer Earth colonization was

possible. Now a second step is being taken on the red planet of Mars. Mars being the closest planet to us

and with atmospheric similarities, it seemes like the obvious step up from the moon.

I wondered as a child what Mars was like. Television and comic books warped my mind into believing that Mars was a distant planet full of little green men just waiting for their chance to invade Earth, jealous of our beautiful green and blue planet. Movies like "Total Recall" taught me that Mars was a dry and desolate place full of death and despair. After reading H.G. Well's War of the Worlds, I could not sleep well for a week. At one time I believed that humanity had poisoned our Earth beyond repair and that perhaps Mars could be our second chance. Though I thought more pessimistically then, I still believe that Mars could be cultivated into a second Earth. It seems ironic that perhaps it will be the Earthlings invading the Mart

Mars, destroy it, then move on to, say, Europa, then we could work on Jupiter itself. It would take a long

Farrier, Joell. "On Martian Soil." Civil Engineering Apr 2000. Ebsco Host. Online. 21 July 2000.

Mars could be the second chance for the human race. We as Homo sapiens have poisoned and

The next Mars probes are expected to be about the size of a 12 oz. soft-drink can and will be released from a satellite in orbit and drop to the surface at 80,000 times the force of gravity. (Brown) The new MEMS technology is certainly the future of electronics, their applications are being used even now in non-spatial areas such as industry and military.

Earth. Then again, if we have not learned anything, we will eventually destroy the Earth entirely, move to

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Next year we are planning to land hundreds of modules that will be evenly

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