Human Exploration and Colonization of Mars Must Be Funded
“Roman mythology tells of the god of war [...] who was despised by his parents; [...] the Romans called him Mars. Romans [...] glorified war, and considered him a mighty warrior [...] some Romans worshipped him, even leaving sacrifices at his altar” (“All about Mars”). The first observers of the planet Mars date back to the ancient Egyptians in the 2nd Millennium, the Chinese in 1045 BC, and the Babylonians in 400 BC. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed the Heliocentric Theory, theorized that Mars was a planet sometime in 1500 AD. Moreover, NASA’s official Mars exploration web page states, “[In 1609 AD] Johannes Kepler [...] publishes Astronomia Nova, which contain[s] his first two laws of planetary motion. Kepler's first law assumes that Mars has an …show more content…
Galileo Galilei [observed] Mars with a primitive telescope, becoming the first person to use it for astronomical purposes” (“All about Mars”). Consequently, Mankind has since then explored and theorized about the Red Planet for centuries from observing and mapping out the celestial body, discovering specific landmarks and moons, determining its axis, to modernly performing “flybys”, orbiter missions, rovers probing and testing its surface, and most recently discovering water on the planet (“All about Mars”). It is time that mankind can completely confirm these theories and discoveries. The exploration of Mars is critical and must be funded because the mission will add to our knowledge of the universe, benefit
“Roman mythology tells of the god of war [...] who was despised by his parents; [...] the Romans called him Mars. Romans [...] glorified war, and considered him a mighty warrior [...] some Romans worshipped him, even leaving sacrifices at his altar” (“All about Mars”). The first observers of the planet Mars date back to the ancient Egyptians in the 2nd Millennium, the Chinese in 1045 BC, and the Babylonians in 400 BC. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed the Heliocentric Theory, theorized that Mars was a planet sometime in 1500 AD. Moreover, NASA’s official Mars exploration web page states, “[In 1609 AD] Johannes Kepler [...] publishes Astronomia Nova, which contain[s] his first two laws of planetary motion. Kepler's first law assumes that Mars has an …show more content…
Galileo Galilei [observed] Mars with a primitive telescope, becoming the first person to use it for astronomical purposes” (“All about Mars”). Consequently, Mankind has since then explored and theorized about the Red Planet for centuries from observing and mapping out the celestial body, discovering specific landmarks and moons, determining its axis, to modernly performing “flybys”, orbiter missions, rovers probing and testing its surface, and most recently discovering water on the planet (“All about Mars”). It is time that mankind can completely confirm these theories and discoveries. The exploration of Mars is critical and must be funded because the mission will add to our knowledge of the universe, benefit