Living on Mars.
Soon we will live on Mars. The space race to send the first humans to colonize the red planet is already underway. The terraforming process is inevitable and the reasons for leaving Earth in the face of future threats are clear. The first humans to face what will undoubtedly be the great challenge of our humanity could arrive on Mars in just twenty years to start building our new home in the solar system.
This new, readable, easy-to-read and fantastically well-illustrated volume is the first book to reveal how we will live on the red planet. LIVING ON MARS answers the great unknowns about what our life on the red planet will be like:
- The expeditions to send men to Mars.
- Why we will leave Earth.
- The dangers of Mars.
- Martian colonies.
- The life of the first Martians.
- Extraterrestrial sex.
- Government and society on Mars.
About the author:
Eladio Miranda Batlle (1965), a graduate in civil engineering from the University of Havana, accumulates several mentions for his work as a scientific disseminator in the field of astronomy. He has studied astronomy, astrobiology, celestial mechanics, cosmology and the solar system. Among his best known works are Mars: the exploration of the fourth planet and Basic Astronomy. The Cuban engineer manages to explain the most complex mysteries of the universe in a pleasant, fresh and simple way.
Living on Mars is moving further and further away from utopia and space agencies such as NASA and ESA are currently conducting research to send a man to Mars by 2030, and private institutions such as Mars One already have candidates for that first manned trip, either with or without return. Building a colony of humans on Mars is not an unrealistic dream, technological advances, our desire to go into the unknown, drive us more and more to become the first living beings, known, to reach another planet other than the one they inhabit. Technology will help us, no doubt about it. While we wait for humans to take that next big step, let's enjoy and dream a little with this book!
Contents:
- Introduction.
- 1.- What is life?
- 1.panspermia theory.
- 1.is there life on Mars?
- 1.3.- The epistemological question in the detection of life on Mars.
- 2.- Historical speculations of Life on Mars.
- 2.1.-Giovanni Schiaparelli.
- 2.2.-Camille Flammarion.
- 2.3.-Percival Lowell.
- 2.4.-H. G. Wells.
- 2.5.-Richard C. Hoagland
- 2.6.-Astronomers who have studied Mars.
- 2.7.-Faces of Mars.
- 3.- Space missions dedicated to detect life on Mars.
- 3.viking program.
- 3.2.-Mars Global Surveyor.
- 3.3.-Mars Odyssey.
- 3.4.-Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
- 3.5.-Phoenix probe.
- 3.6.-Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity). NASA.
- 3.7.-Mars Exploration Program. NASA.
- 3.8.-MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution).
- 3.9.-ExoMars Probe.
- 3.10.-Mars Sample Return.
- 3.11.-Future plans.
- 4.- Expeditions to send men to Mars.
- 4.1.-Mars One.
- 4.2.-Mars Society.
- 4.3.-Mars Foundation.
- 4.4.-NASA projects. Other Projects.
- 4.5.-Selection of the first crews.
- 5.- Technologies and resources to be developed.
- 5.1.-Telecommunications.
- 5.2.-Transport to Mars.
- 5.energy, resources, infrastructure and transportation in the Martian environment. 3
- 6.- Living on Mars.
- 6.1.-Martian Terraforming. Reasons for terraforming. Ethical aspects.
- 6.2.-Theoretical methods of terraforming.
- 6.3.-How will be the life of the first humans.
- 6.4.-Martian colonies.
- 6.5.-The dangers we will find on Mars.
- 6.6.-Human modifications for survival, medical care.
- 6.7.-Birthing and birth on Mars. Sex outside the Earth.
- 6.religious social structure.
- 7.- Weather on Mars.
- 7.1.-Weather forecast.
- 7.2.-What will be the zero year of the Martian calendar?
- 8.-Chronology of the first settlement.
- 9.- Will it really be possible to live on Mars?
- References.
- Annexes.
- 1. Timeline of Mars exploration.
- 2. Mars data.
- Bibliography.
Technical data:
- Author: Eladio Miranda Batlle, 2017
- Editorial: Editorial Odeon
- Editorial coordination: Mado Martínez
- Edition, design and layout: Al-Ophiucus XII
- Cover design: Rayna Petrova
- Images used under license from Shutterstock, NASA and public domain
- Illustrations: Color
- Edition: 1st Edition: 2017
- ISBN: 9788416847037
- Cover: Softcover
- No. of pages: 264
Living on Mars.
