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ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTOPHER B. SHORT; STOCKTREK IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES (MARS)
Is Georgie
stuck on Mars
forever?
BY JENNIFER L. HOLM
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I
the planet had seemed pretty good.
a long time ago about what Mars
But I can’t stop thinking about
They transmitted back maps and
might be like for the first colonists.
water. Anything to do with water.
geological findings and climate data.
In the story, the Mars colonists live a
Like going for a swim or taking a
am floating in water. Next to me, Nana bobs on her back, looking
By the time the first 50 people and
comfortable life in beautiful domed
shower or having a real bath.
up at the same blue sky, her white hair tied in a thick braid. She is
one dog were sent to Mars, they
cities that have amazing views of the
wearing her lifeguard-red bathing suit, and her arms trail in the
thought they knew the score.
landscape. He made it sound not
Every two months, a shuttle arrives
half bad.
with drinking water, but our main
Think about what challenges people living on Mars would face.
water at her sides in smooth, unhurried motions. Seagulls scream
But I suppose it’s not easy to
organize the business of living on a
Then I got here.
source of water is from recycling.
trying to get our attention. It is peaceful out here, perfect.
deserted rock out in space. There’s
Which is why it’s called science
The water you spit out when you
We are two mermaids enjoying
the crazy weather, the subzero cold,
“I feel like a lab rat,” I say, baring
the freedom of the waves, the tug of
my arm reluctantly for the doctor.
the undertow, the rush of the water
The doctor shrugs. “We have to
around us, part of the ocean itself.
“Georgie,” Nana says, her voice
smiling with pleasure. “It’s heaven to
be here with you.”
Then a wave comes up from
and everybody gets a daily ration.
it blows right through the plastic
It tastes awful, and there’s never
the air in and the UV rays out, but
take a sponge bath.
Then the doctor yanks the needle out
not the dust. It’s everywhere. In
That’s why my father’s here. To
and slaps on a Band-Aid.
your eyes, in your ears, in your
find water. Some whiz of a scientist
hair. Even your belly button. Most
told NASA that they should “follow
people get used to it, but not me.
the water,” that is, follow the
I mean, how do you get used to
scientific evidence of where the
finding dust up your nose every
water has been before, to find new
“No more blood!” I say.
morning? And it’s impossible to get
water. Unfortunately, this planet
I put up with a lot on this planet.
the taste out of your mouth—rusty,
was once covered with an ocean,
like you’re losing a tooth.
so that’s a lot of territory to cover.
I’ve heard this a million times.
Only adults over 18 are allowed to go
and I guess they want to avoid
The doctor pats my arm. “I’m
turning us into mutants. I could tell
one getting stuck with a needle.
filtered and put back in the system,
so superfine, so microscopic, that
tube of dark red blood is sucked out.
“Ouch!” I say.
Easy for her to say. She’s not the
about the dust right. The dust is
on a shuttle like sardines.
development.”
Mars’ gravity is one-third of Earth’s,
“Georgiana,” my mother says,
takes six months to get here packed
The doctor jabs the needle in my
“There. That wasn’t so bad, now
was it?” my mother says brightly.
“Whoops,” the doctor says. “I
need one more tube.”
them about their mutant theory
Like no friends and rehydrated
of gravity though. I’ve grown four
food and performing like a pony on
inches in the time I’ve been here.
transmissions for kids back home.
We are the fourth wave of
pioneers, known as Fourths. The
“Georgiana,” my mother says.
“No more!” I run to the door, and
second wave erected the medical
then stop. Because on this dumb
cabin I’m standing in. The cabin is
planet, I can’t even make a dramatic
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I have to put on my stupid
“It’s important for us to gather
made of thick black plastic, sturdy
exit.
biological data for future colonists,”
enough to protect us from the solar
survival suit first.
she adds, as if that would somehow
radiation, which can kill you—give
make this fun.
you terrible skin cancer. That’s what
father. They live for experiments
had to have their noses removed.
and collecting data. My parents love
Now the whole compound is a rabbit
I
Mars, which makes sense, since
warren of connecting plastic tunnels.
than you can imagine. The average
My mother is a geologist like my
Mars is really just a big rock. They
even when you pee—it all gets
how the lower gravity will affect your
I realize I’m still on Mars.
shaking her head. “Come on.”
Mr. Robinson did get the part
enough to do anything more than
they thought I’d finished puberty.
I plead. “Look at my arm!”
the dust storms, and the fact that it
tents we live in. The plastic keeps
to Mars. They let me come because
“Can we do this another day?”
brush your teeth, leftover dishwater,
arm again. It stings, and I wince. A
up, breathing in stale, musty air.
having a hard time finding a vein.”
fiction and not reality, I guess.
keep an eye on you. We don’t know
behind, crashes over us, and I wake
the Firsts found out. Some of them
There’s nothing like death and
head down the plastic hallway.
It’s eerily quiet, the way it gets
before a bad dust storm hits,
and I shiver. It’s cold on Mars, colder
temperature is -81 degrees.
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On the trip here, I read Red Mars
spend hours talking about geological
disaster to make you figure out
formations and whether the Holden
how to do things right. But all those
by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s this
Crater was once a lake.
unmanned robots that explored
famous science-fiction book written
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We don’t have any water here.
above our heads, swooping low, diving across the waves as if
The only reason I’m even here
is that the last batch of geologists
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AS YOU
READ
start fixing up the planet, and then
lots of people can come.
haven’t been lining up to go to Mars
a whole new world for people to mess
anymore.
up and overpopulate. I mean, I know
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first exploratory missions. So after
when you can’t wash your hair?
the Spring Disaster, as the media
it in his eyes every time they sent
M
up a new batch of settlers. His one
weren’t going to tell you, but—”
wanted to do anyway. You could see
condition was that I come.
You’d think I’d be happy to go to
Mars. It’s every kid’s dream, right?
Red Mars is a real book published
in 1993. It takes place in 2026.
Why might Georgie have been
reading it?
we’re here for a good reason, but
who cares about saving humankind
my father to go back, which he
INFERENCE
It will be
Mars than anyone; he was on the
called it, the government begged
2
Once they find water, they can
dust storm. Since then, geologists
My father knows more about
What does the first section reveal
about how Georgie feels about
being on Mars?
Which is why they need geologists.
they sent up got killed in a spring
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y parents are waiting when
I get back to the cabin.
“We got a transmission
from Earth,” my mother says. “We
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What does Georgie mean when
she refers to people messing up
the world?
“But what?” I have a bad feeling.
My father takes off his
glasses and cleans them
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with a corner of his shirt. He puts
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And every time I dream of
get back to Earth. Your legs could
been so healthy. She was an Olympic
swimmer.”
them back on and says wearily,
water, I dream of Nana and me
shatter from the gravity, and you
“Nana’s been diagnosed with
together.
may never walk again.”
stomach cancer.”
“She’s dying,” my mother says.
Two mermaids in the ocean.
I know she’d laugh at the way we
scenario?” I ask.
“No kidding.”
I nod. “She won a gold medal.
“You could be in a wheelchair for
Backstroke.”
the rest of your life,” my mom adds.
live in plastic tents. “Why, you all
“Didn’t you,” I say, my voice
me to swim. All those summers my
look like hamsters,” she’d say, and
wavering, “didn’t you know about
“My parents refuse to go back to
parents spent at NASA, or on the
she’d be right. She’s just that kind of
this before you brought me here?”
Earth to see her. They say she’s going
International Space Station, I spent
person. She tells it like it is.
at the Jersey Shore with Nana in her
the only person in the whole world
sweet little yellow house looking
who’s ever believed in me.
She’s
out on the beach. Those summers
“When are we going back?” I ask.
were the best parts of my life.
“We’re not,” my mom says.
Sometimes I wish I could have lived
“What are you talking about? We
with Nana forever.
“Your parents love you,” she
always says, and I know they do,
can’t leave Nana alone.” Nana is my
father’s mother, and he’s an only
child. We’re all she has.
but they forget I’m here sometimes,
“Honey,” my mom says, “the
like I’m an experiment that slipped
cancer spread to her lymph nodes.
massive fractures. You’d spend
neither of these brilliant scientists
percent of my bones, and my body
months in a full body cast. Best-
thought this one through.
could shatter or something.”
case, you’d sustain no breaks and
H
“
I look up from my
holding a tray. Buddy is 21 and a
Nana knows everything about
breakfast in the mess
Good question.
on a regimen of IV-delivered drugs.
“Maybe you should leave now,
After that, you’ll still have to be
you know, before it gets worse. Have
careful. Physical therapy too.”
My parents won’t let me go.”
“You can always stow away,” he
scientist or in the military. His hair
jokes. “Like my grandfather.”
is short, and the skin on his face is
He purses his lips, considering.
“Minimum four months, I imagine,
“No,” I say. “But it doesn’t matter.
Marine. Everyone here is either a
to build up your calcium.”
“Why did they bring you here?”
you talked to the doc?”
“What do you mean?”
scientist, says, “Statistically, there’s
dry and flaky. Mine is the same way.
only a 5 percent chance that Nana
When there’s no water, it’s hard to
“My grandfather grew up on a
“Ah,” he says. “But I’m not you.”
And that’s when I realize I’m in
this alone.
S
“
weetie,” my mom says
I like Buddy. He’s funny, and he
and stowed away aboard a Navy
parents. Like how I wanted to get a
“Well, I don’t care. I’m going.”
doesn’t talk to me like I’m a little kid.
ship. Ended up in Hawaii.” Buddy’s
you’re feeling down about Nana,
place on the swim team (I did), and
“You can’t go,” my mom says.
He sits down and digs into his
beeper goes off, and he looks down.
so your dad has a birthday surprise
that I was worried my folks would
“Your last calcium test came back
rehydrated eggs. “Dust storm’s
pressure me to become a scientist
and”—she takes a deep breath—
coming,” he says.
(they do), and how I wished a boy
“you’ve lost a lot of bone density.”
named Chen would like me (he
does).
Nana is the thing I miss most
“So what? I’ll drink lots of milk,
OK?”
I hate milk, especially the
What else is new.
I pick up a toffee candy that they
leave out in bowls on the tables.
“How’s it going?” he asks.
from Earth. Sure, I hate the dust
powdered stuff we have on Mars,
“I’ve had better days,” I say.
and not being able to take a bath or
but I’ll do anything to get to Nana.
“By the way, happy birthday.”
have a conversation with someone
“You don’t understand,” my
“My grandmother has cancer,” I
my own age, but there are days
dad says. “You’ve lost 30 percent
when I go crazy from the loneliness
of your bone mass. No one knows
He blinks. “Whoa. That’s awful.”
of not being able to talk to her.
what effect that will have when you
I shake my head. “She’s always
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blurt. “She’s gonna die.”
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keep your skin moist and glowing.
This is how they talk.
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“Gotta go, brat. Talk to the doc.”
He stands, pockets a handful of
toffees, and winks. “I love this stuff.
Takes the taste of dust away.”
He buckles into his suit and
disappears out the door.
N
“
obody knows what
will happen to the first
adolescent to have lived
What does this line suggest about
Georgie’s relationship with her
parents? What other lines provide
insight into their relationship?
me?” I ask.
fears. Stuff I could never tell my
would survive longer than that.”
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“What would you do if you were
farm, and he hated it, so he ran away
me. My dreams, my goals, my
Why does Georgie associate Nana
with water?
would only require hospitalization
“How long would that be?”
“No kidding.”
ey, brat.”
die before we get there.”
to be called Georgiana.
present.”
my dad says quizzically.
I wonder if I’m someone else’s baby
My dad, ever the compassionate
back. “Talk about a lousy birthday
“Why would you want to leave?”
hall and see Buddy standing there
You’re just guessing,” I say.
He puts down his fork, sits
Mars?” I whisper.
never make it back in time. She’ll
he still hasn’t figured out that I hate
He leans back in his chair, folds
won’t let me go because I’ve lost 30
“So how am I ever going to leave
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CHARACTER
could happen?”
glance at each other. It’s clear that
She’s got five months to live. We’d
mistake. I mean, I’m nearly 15, and
I let that sink in. “OK, what else
his hands. “Your legs would sustain
look nothing alike, and sometimes
“You don’t know that for sure!
you’ll never walk again.”
to die before they get there, and they
My parents cast a sidelong
their minds. Especially my dad. We
they picked up in the hospital by
“Your leg bones will shatter from
the force of Earth’s gravity, and
It all comes out in a painful rush.
Nana was the one who taught
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“What’s the worst-case
a few days later as I lay
in my bunk. “We know
for you. Don’t you, honey?”
“Well,” he says. “I got
permission for us to take a rover!”
I roll my eyes. Just what I need.
Another rock-hunting expedition.
“I’m really not up to looking at
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rocks,” I say.
“But we’re not going to look at
rocks,” he says. “It’s even better.”
Does Buddy really think Georgie is
a brat? How do you know?
This should be good. My dad’s
on Mars, Georgiana,” the doctor says
idea of fun is taking core
from behind his big desk.
samples.
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“I promise you’ll like it,” my
mom says. “Come on.”
W
“That is where I found a downward
smear of water-soluble mineral
deposits in a core sample.” He
“Sure,” he says finally. “How
“But Georgie,” she says, her eyes
about at oh-seven-hundred?”
twinkling, “you’re already home.”
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Then I wake up in the plastic
Over his shoulder, I see my
“Hey, Buddy,” I blush, holding
my duffel.
“The closet in the back is
e are wearing our survival
draws the moment out. “I figure we
cabin and hear the storm raging
parents enter the cafeteria, holding
suits. My dad parks
drill 400 meters down, and we’ll hit
outside and I can’t help myself.
hands and laughing, and something
There’s a blanket and some other
the rover, gets out, and
water,” he says with a wink.
inside me goes still. Suddenly,
stuff too.”
starts walking, but I just stare. We
“Really?” I can’t keep the
It’s strange how serene it is—the
horizon unbroken by buildings or
trees or anything but a rolling rockstudded surface, an alien desert.
“This way,” my dad calls over his
mic. “Race you to the edge!”
And then we are bounding
across the landscape, and I am
leaping over big boulders with an
ease I could never have on Earth
and it’s such a rush, this feeling
excitement out of my voice.
“Really,” my mom says, smiling at
my dad proudly.
“Does anybody know yet?” I ask.
“No. We won’t announce it until
we know for sure,” my dad says.
I stare at my dad. “But how do
you know you’ll find water, Dad? I
mean, how can you know for sure?”
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And then he says something
that shocks me.
“Nothing’s ever certain,
B
all these little things seem so
uddy sidles up to me in the
mess hall with a tray of food.
smiles, these two strong legs. How
He raises a curious eyebrow.
can I possibly give this up?
“It’s this book,” I say, “about the
“You been crying, brat?”
I glare at him.
Buddy sees where I’m looking.
“Did you see the doc?” he presses.
“You sure you know what you’re
for four months. Worst-case, I’m
and I know that I am my father’s
crippled for life.” I swallow hard.
daughter after all. “You just have to
“And Nana’s all alone,” I whisper.
have hope.”
He clears his throat. “My
They gave him three months to live.
says. His voice crackles over the mic.
Know how long he lasted?”
if every cell in me is shouting—so
“You just have to have hope.”
I stop suddenly, my dad a step
ahead. We are standing on the
edge of a huge canyon, winding
I
Nirgal Vallis. We think there was
once a big river there.”
“Like the Grand Canyon?” I say.
“Exactly,” my mom says.
“And see there? That red flag?”
My dad points to a stretch of cliff
where a little red flag waves merrily.
“Uh-huh.”
He clears his throat importantly.
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down at my legs.
He pats my cheek. “You’ll be
he next morning when I wake
up in the same hospital as your
up, my parents are getting
grandmother. That way you can be
ready to head out.
together.”
“Thanks,” I whisper.
“A whole year.”
captain’s finishing breakfast now.”
I’d settle for a week with Nana.
says excitedly. “This is it, Georgie.”
He gives me a goofy grin. “And hey,
the scent of salt in the air. I turn
His beeper goes off and he
Her face is one big grin. “You’ll have
take a swim for me, OK?”
“Nana,” I cry, hugging her sturdy
“I’ve missed you.”
“That,” my dad says, “is the
I hesitate for a moment, stare
wet hair plastered on my face,
movie. It is the most beautiful thing
strange peace steals over me.
kind of like his version better.”
am bobbing in the ocean, my
body, comforting like Christmas.
its rawness, like the ocean, and a
I smile back. “Sort of. Although I
back until late tonight,” my mom
“I’ve missed you too, Georgie,”
she says.
“You don’t look like you’re dying.”
groans. “Shuttle just got in.”
“Shuttle?”
“Supply shuttle. I’m helping
unload it. It’s dropping off supplies,
then heading back to Earth in the
morning.” He stands abruptly.
The dust storm roars outside, but
“Dying? I’m healthy as a horse!”
the only thing I hear is that one little
Her cheeks are ruddy, her skin
word: Earth.
is flush with good health, even her
eyes are shining.
“I want to do something,” I say.
“But I’m scared.”
“You can do whatever you want
to do,” she says. “You always could.”
“I want to come home,” I say
simply. “And be with you.”
I grab his wrist. “Maybe I could
bring you coffee in the morning.
You know, over at the shuttle,” I say
casually, looking him straight in the
eye, willing him to hear me.
Buddy unwraps a toffee, sticks it
in his mouth, chews for a moment,
and stares at me.
“Only if you take one for me.”
We’re finding water today.”
“What?” he asks.
I smile mysteriously.
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know what I mean soon enough.
I’m leaving this planet just when it’s
when I stop him. I hug him hard
A
too. He’s startled.
all that blue water ahead. A whole
“I love you, Mom.”
My dad’s almost out the door
my eyes, imagining Mars
disappearing behind me 10 and
And then they are gone.
of it all, Nana.
B
the only one there.
“Hey, brat,” he says.
What does she mean?
I settle back and close
world of it. And there, in the middle
the thermos of coffee. He’s
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s the engines roar to life,
“Good luck,” I say.
uddy is waiting when I bring
What does Georgie mean when she
says “something inside me goes
still”?
He’ll
help but think how ironic it is that
getting good. Still, I hug her hard.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
“You’d better go, brat. The
your very own pool in no time.
“I know you will,” I say, and can’t
Why does his statement
shock Georgie?
He laughs. “Does he get it right?”
team to Nirgal Vallis. We won’t be
and there is Nana beside me.
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first colonists on Mars.”
fine. Just have them hook you
“We’re going out with the Alpha
“How long?” I whisper, hope
dog-eared copy of Red Mars.
lodged in my throat.
and wild, like something out of a
I have ever seen. It’s awesome in
T
grandfather died from cancer too.
Georgiana,” my dad, the scientist,
body may not support me on Earth.
“Nothing’s ever certain,” I say,
scenario I have to be in a hospital
pounding, my lungs inflating, as
inconceivable that this same strong
doing?” he asks.
“Yeah. Great news. Best-case
coursing through me, my heart
healthy! so alive!—that it seems
“Here,” I say, and give him my
important—this candy, those
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are alone in the middle of Mars.
I just cry.
cleared out for you. Door’s open.
I can almost hear her voice.
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TEXT FEATURE
Explain what the title of the story
means. To what does it refer?
“Georgie,” she will say. “It’s
heaven to be here with you.”
They should be finding my note
right about now, I figure.
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Home sweet
home!
What
Would It
Take to
Live Here?
constructing what will be the most
possible.
ability to explore deep space will
be within our reach. Named the
Space Launch System, the superfast
rocket could get humans to Mars in
about nine months!
So what is standing in our way?
A trip that long would require
a fully stocked spacecraft: food
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(freeze-dried chicken, anyone?),
Getting There
don’t have the technology to take
water, and a lot of fuel. Colonists
Mars is about
people that deep into space. The
would need a decent amount of
140 million miles
farthest humans have traveled is
living space too; they would be on
from Earth. We
to the moon, which is only about
board for nearly a year, after all.
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a thrilling conclusion: Sustaining human life on Mars may be
powerful rocket ever built, the
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barren landscape, and total lack of breathable air.
its environment. That information has led some scientists to
would live in deep
thin atmosphere and lack of strong
(ISS): weakened immune systems,
space longer than
sunlight are two of many reasons
extreme fatigue, and substantial
anyone ever has. No one is quite
gardening would be difficult.
muscle and bone loss.
sure what that would do to the
Crops would need to be grown in
human body—but radiation would
special greenhouses.
ISS for only four to six months
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at a time. What would happen
Here on Earth, we’re protected
exactly a hospitable place, with its intense dust storms,
sending robots and rovers to Mars to collect information about
the International Space Station
speeding around space at all times.
to NASA, after engineers finish
But for the past 50 years, scientists have been
low-gravity environment aboard
for the indoors. As for food, Mars’s
of high-energy particles that are
250,000 miles away. But according
what happens to astronauts in a
which could be used to provide air
to the naked eye, radiation is made
olonizing Mars would be a pretty big undertaking. It isn’t
to produce oxygen from water,
Mars colonists
definitely be a problem. Invisible
Six challenges that must be solved before
humans can move to Mars BY MACKENZIE CARRO
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Deadly
Radiation
Water
The good
news is that Mars
has water. In fact,
Most astronauts stay on the
to colonists living long-term on
Mars?
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by our planet’s magnetic field. In
the planet was once covered with
space, however, we’d be exposed.
it. The bad news is that most of
The effects of radiation exposure
that water is frozen underground
Though Mars
could include severe memory
and likely contains toxic
gets to a balmy 70
loss, brain damage, and cancer.
chemicals. Scientists aren’t sure
degrees near its equator during
Colonists would need some sort of
how the water could be harvested
the summer, most of the time
shielding on the journey to Mars
and purified to make it safe to
it’s deathly cold. The average
and once they get there.
drink. Most likely, colonists would
temperature is -81 degrees
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rely on recycled water, at least at
Fahrenheit. Colonists would need
first. And yes, that would mean
special spacesuits and houses to
drinking purified urine.
keep them from freezing.
Food and Air
Mars lacks
two important
elements: food
and oxygen.
(OK, two really
important elements.)
Shipping food and breathable
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Gravity
Mars is smaller
Mars is really,
really chilly.
Then there are the dust storms.
These storms kick up lots of
thin, sticky dust that could damage
than Earth, which
equipment and, if a storm were
means it has less
large enough, block out the sun
gravity. This low
for days. This would be quite
air from Earth would be much too
gravity would enable humans to
problematic if colonists were to
slow and expensive, so colonists
jump higher and run faster. Over
use solar panels—equipment that
would need to make their own.
time, however, it would be harmful.
turns sunlight into energy—to
NASA has already developed a way
We have already observed
power their colony.
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WRITING CONTEST
Explain how Jennifer L. Holm draws on scientific information in her story “Follow the Water.”
Include details from the story as well as from “What Would It Take to Live Here?” to
support your ideas. Send your essay to MARS CONTEST. Five winners will each get One
Small Step by P.B. Kerr. See page 2 for details.
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