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New Frontiers of Space
Cutting - Edge
Karen Latchana Kenney
Lerner Publications Minneapolis
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Copyright 2020 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kenney, Karen Latchana, author.
Title: Cutting-edge journey to Mars / Karen Latchana Kenney.
Other titles: Cutting edge journey to Mars
Description: Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, [2020] | Series: Searchlight books.
New frontiers of space | Audience: Ages 811. | Audience: Grades 4 to 6. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identi f iers: LCCN 2018059699 (print) | LCCN 2019002408
(ebook) | ISBN 9781541557468 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781541557451 (lb : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781541574854 (pb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Space tourismJuvenile literature. | Space f light to MarsJuvenile
literature. | Interplanetary voyagesJuvenile literature. | Mars (Planet)Exploration
Juvenile literature.
Classi f ication: LCC TL794.7 (ebook) | LCC TL794.7 .K46 2020 (print) | DDC
629.45/53dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018059699
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-46154-45953-4/22/2019
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Contents
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Chapter
RED PLANET
People in space suits walk across rocky, barren land. No
trees, plants, or animals are in sight. The people head
to a white dome and go inside. The dome is their home.
They never go outside without their space suits. The
suits cover their bodies from head to toe.
Humans who travel to Mars will
need protective space suits.
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The surface of Mars is rocky and lifeless.
Are these people on the moon or a distant planet? No.
They are on top of Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii. They
are learning what it might be like to live on Mars. They
are part of a Mars training mission.
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This dome serves as
home for astronauts on
Mars training missions.
The US National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
has carried out six
Mars training missions
on the volcano. The
rocky land there is a lot like the surface of Mars. During
these missions, teams of scientists and engineers live
inside the small dome for eight months. They pretend
they are on Mars. They eat only homegrown and
freeze- dried foods. They do not see anyone else.
NASA studies how the team members get along. NASA
wants to learn what astronauts living on Mars will need.
This is one way NASA is preparing to send astronauts to
Mars. The mission will take place in the 2030s.
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MARS IS RED BECAUSE OF ALL THE IRON
ON ITS SURFACE.
Fourth Planet from the Sun
Mars is our neighbor in space. Earth is the third planet