Essays on The Martian

The Mars Climate Orbiter: A Multimillion Dollar Mistake

The Story Grossman (1999) addresses the incident of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter in her article named “Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission”. She explains how a simple unit conversion mistake caused the Orbiter to burn up in the Martian atmosphere. The vessel costed NASA a whopping $125 million when it vanished into the Martian atmosphere. The problem, later identified by a NASA review board, owed to a software glitch. The software was used to calculate the thrust in “pounds of force” while the other software took the input in “newtons”. This happened due to the fact that ...

Intensified Research of Ridley Scott

Intensified Research on Ridley Scott There have only been a handful of filmmakers who had been able to stand out from the crowd of great film personalities that ever flourished in Hollywood. These filmmakers may not be the ones who made the most popular film in the world or the ones who made the most critically acclaimed or commercially successful films yet. Instead, these people are the pioneers that proved how significant movies can become for popular culture by influencing almost a couple of decades of filmmaking and/or lifestyle choices. Works of this handful of filmmakers, hailed as classics ...

Geology of Mars

Similar to Earth, all of the planets, including Mars, are defined by geologic processes. Of course, these geologic processes and conditions differ among the planets depending on various factors, such as the relative distance to the sun, composition of the planet, vulnerability to impacts and collisions, etc. Of all the planets, Mars is the closest to Earth-like conditions (Head 1). On the surface of Mars, as well as all of the telluric planets, the most abundant minerals are silicates. On Mars, the origins of most of the silicates are of basaltic to andesitic basaltic. On its surface, the main ...

Travelling to another planet is referred to interplanetary spaceflight. The term is usually used when travelling to a planet within the same planetary system (Fisher 1). The human race has made tremendous strides in space exploration. Man has made it to the moon and back, which was a great achievement for science as well as the human race. Man may not have stepped onto another planet yet, but significant achievements have been made in interplanetary exploration. There have been explorations using probes that have flown by every planet in the solar system. The New Horizons recently flew by the ...

In 2009, a movie was released that was based on a Japanese manga (comic book) that originated in Japan. The premises of the movie was that a teenage inherited a mystical item that imbued him with immense powers. With these powers, he fought off evil alien forces that threatened all life on planet Earth. The name of that movie is Dragonball Evolution. Due to the source material containing Asian people as the main characters, it would only be safe to assume that the actor casted for the main role would be Asian as well. However, Hollywood directors went with ...

1.Jupiter was the first. Giant lies just beyond the frost line. As the frost line accumulated great amounts of water via evaporation from infalling icy material, it created a zone of lower pressure that increased the speed of orbiting dust particles and halted their motion toward the Sun. As a result , the frost line acted as a barrier whice lead material to accumulate. This excess material coalesced into a huge embryo of around 10 Earth masses, which then began to grow rapidly by swallowing hydrogen from the surrounding disc, reaching 150 Earth masses in only another 1000 years and finally topping out at ...

“For Marxism, literature does not exist in some timeless, aesthetic realm as an object to be passively contemplated. Rather, like all cultural manifestations, it is a product of the socioeconomic and hence ideological conditions of the time and the place in which it was written, whether or not the author intended it so. Because human beings are themselves products of their socioeconomic and ideological environment, it is assumed that authors cannot help but create works that embody ideology in some form.” -Tyson, Critical Theory Today. War of the Worlds, the novel about the Martian invasion on earth is ...

Introduction

In 1975, two planetary exploration missions named Vikings 1 and 2 were launched to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars. These two missions were launched with only a few weeks apart from each other; the first on August 20, 1975 while the second on September 9 of the same year. Both of the missions had two parts: a lander and an orbiter. The plan of the missions was that as the orbiter orbits around Mars taking pictures and other data, the lander studies the Martian surface from the ground. With the program’s total budget of a staggering 1 billion dollars, ...

Essay

The Martian Chronicles, a science fiction short story collection is dated by 1950 year, was written by a famous fiction-writer, Ray Bradbury. This story collection tells about the colonization of Mars by humans, running from their troubled and devastated Earth; about the conflict between the aboriginal creatures of this planet and the newcomers, resulted in annihilation both Earth and Martian races. But, The Martian Chronicles isn’t only the science fiction story collection at all, but it can be a version of mythology, made by Ray Bradbury with involving a lot of sci-fi techniques as rocket ships and space travels. The author ...

Essay

The Martian Chronicles, a science fiction short story collection is dated by 1950 year, was written by a famous fiction-writer, Ray Bradbury. This story collection tells about the colonization of Mars by humans, running from their troubled and devastated Earth; about the conflict between the aboriginal creatures of this planet and the newcomers, resulted in annihilation both Earth and Martian races. But, The Martian Chronicles isn’t only the science fiction story collection at all, but it can be a version of mythology, made by Ray Bradbury with involving a lot of sci-fi techniques as rocket ships and space travels. The author ...

War of the Worlds: Comparisons between the Novel and Movie (2005) Versions

Introduction

Both H.G. Wells and Steven Spielberg are geniuses in their respective fields proven by their marvels in working on one story – War of the Worlds. Wells, the author of the original novel of War of the Worlds published in 1898, cast his story in an era that is way beyond his own time. The obsession most people during the time War of the Worlds was written on particular phenomena such as the Apocalypse, invasions by forces more powerful than their nation Great Britain and extraterrestrial life-forms helped ...

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ABSTRACT

Studying of the outer space is called space science. The space exploration is the discovery and exploration of the outer space. The study of space is mainly done by the astronomers, later it was made as one of the divisions of space science. The astronomers explore the outer space with the help of the telescope. The physical explorations are conducted by the unmanned robotic probes and human space flight. In early centuries, the space race occurred between the Soviet Union and the United States of America during the period of cold war. The abstract of this research ...

Physics of the Landing

Curiosity rover which is the size of a small car a one tone robot landed on mars safely and it was declared as one of the most difficult and daring attempted interplanetary missions costing one point six billion dollars. The rover which is six wheeled was lowered on three nylon tethers to the surface of the Martian. The tethers were suspended from a sky crane hovering air borne with retro rockets. This is one of the most advanced planetary activity currently carried out by the engineers of physics of landing and it has took the world by surprise since many people did ...

Science fiction is a fairly new genre in the spectrum of literature; the earliest practitioners include Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and even Mark Twain (if you’ve read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, then you’ve read an early work of science fiction) – both of whom wrote in the nineteenth century. Some of this has a lot to do with the fact that science and technology did not really take off until the early 1800’s, which brought the Industrial Revolution. What with steam engines powering vast machines, the imagination of writers soon foresaw the wonders that those ...

The works of Ray Bradbury have long been held up as examples of speculative fiction: the forms of genres which, generally, encompass a wide range of imaginative features. His work often presents common themes such as those with pertain to the future, space, science fiction and the dystopian qualities of future societies. For example, in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury discusses a future society where books are banned: presenting the reader with a hint of anti-meta narrative, given that the book is the very thing in the readers’ hands. This also represents Bradbury’s most famous work: it is universally accepted as being one ...