MISSION TO MARS

Why Mars?
We picked mars because when we did the research mars had the perfect temperature and it had the perfect land and almost air

Criteria and Constriants
Have to work around asteroids
Have to have enough power to escape earths gravitational pull

FIRST SPACECRAFT DESIGN

• Needs improvements
• Has lasers to destroy asteroids
• Has five parachutes each side
• Has a lot a fuel to get out of earths gravitational pull
• The giant ball is the rover

FINAL SPACECRAFT DESIGN

• Combines my groups craft with mine
• Has much more fuel
• Has an ammo storage
• Named it Bouma 117
• Has landing feet

Parachute
They we're an important part of our spacecraft because they would help our spacecraft slow down or else it would land hard and the space craft would probably break.
The parts of a parachute are the canopy, the suspension lines, the bridle, and also the load. The Canopy is important this the part that slows it down. The suspension lines are important because the connect the load and the canopy.and the load is important because the parachute has to come down other wise the parachute would stay in air for a long time.

My parachute
The first time when we were testing it my engineering group and I were in charge of testing to canopy length. We found out that the biggest canopy fell down the slowest and the smallest fell the fastest. One thing that we had in common was that the canopy diameter and radius was the same thing. The thing that changed was that the canopy length was a little bigger then the original.

Final Parachute
For my final parachute the canopy radius was 9 and the diameter was 81. The suspension line length was 16.5, so it was the same as the second one. We tested it and found out that our average was 3.10. So now we had to do 10 divided by 3.10 to find our average drop speed. After we found out that our average drop speed was 3.23.

What I learned
The thing I learned in this process is how to make a parachute, facts on mars, and how to understand diameter and radius a lot more. Also that that Nasa comes up with ideas that look simple but is really complicated.

QUESTIONS I HAVE

• Where did all the water go?
• What made the planet red?
• Where did the oxogen go?
• Was there any life on mars?
• What is the name of its moons?