Choose a planet from the solar system (NOT EARTH) and calculate your age on this planet using planetary year data, and describe what your new life feels like - temperature, visually, sounds like and where it sits in the solar system.
Welcome, to life on Mars!
Information for this was retrieved from: http://www.nasa.gov/
I am 10.8 martian years old on Mars, back at my old home on Earth I was 22 years old!
The first thing I noticed about life here on Mars was how much extra time I have in my days! Martian days are approximately half an hour longer than Earth days. Over a year that's 687 days instead of only 365 Earth days!
I am glad that I packed a lot soap and laundry detergent because this place is covered in a very fine red dust. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the dust just settled on the ground, however frequent and really intense dust storms big enough to cover the entire planet can throw dust up to 20 km into the air and last for months at a time, so I am definitely a little bit dirty.
Mars has some great sights to see here on the weekend, I just recently explored the volcano Olympus Mons, which is the biggest mountain in the entire solar system! Another beautiful thing I love about the night is looking at not only 1 moon, but 2!
I am glad I packed stacks of thermal underwear and ski gear. The temperatures reach around -50 degrees celsius this is because Mars is located father away from the Sun than Earth. The Sun therefor looks a lot smaller in the sky. Because the sun was so small and the temperature was so cold I didn't think I would need to pack sunscreen, boy was I wrong! Mars lacks the protective ozone layer we have in Earth's atmosphere, so it's a lot easier to be burnt.
When I first arrived at Mars I also thought the little white flakes I saw falling down around me and on the mountain tops were snowflakes when in fact they are actually crystals of frozen carbon dioxide (aka DRY ICE). In fact, the Martian atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, so I am having difficulty breathing, lucky I packed my oxygen to go pack which gives me all the oxygen I need on the dusty planet. Here are some photo's I have taken over the past couple of months of my time living on Mars so far...
The first thing I noticed about life here on Mars was how much extra time I have in my days! Martian days are approximately half an hour longer than Earth days. Over a year that's 687 days instead of only 365 Earth days!
I am glad that I packed a lot soap and laundry detergent because this place is covered in a very fine red dust. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the dust just settled on the ground, however frequent and really intense dust storms big enough to cover the entire planet can throw dust up to 20 km into the air and last for months at a time, so I am definitely a little bit dirty.
Mars has some great sights to see here on the weekend, I just recently explored the volcano Olympus Mons, which is the biggest mountain in the entire solar system! Another beautiful thing I love about the night is looking at not only 1 moon, but 2!
I am glad I packed stacks of thermal underwear and ski gear. The temperatures reach around -50 degrees celsius this is because Mars is located father away from the Sun than Earth. The Sun therefor looks a lot smaller in the sky. Because the sun was so small and the temperature was so cold I didn't think I would need to pack sunscreen, boy was I wrong! Mars lacks the protective ozone layer we have in Earth's atmosphere, so it's a lot easier to be burnt.
When I first arrived at Mars I also thought the little white flakes I saw falling down around me and on the mountain tops were snowflakes when in fact they are actually crystals of frozen carbon dioxide (aka DRY ICE). In fact, the Martian atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, so I am having difficulty breathing, lucky I packed my oxygen to go pack which gives me all the oxygen I need on the dusty planet. Here are some photo's I have taken over the past couple of months of my time living on Mars so far...
Images retrieved from: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov