Brief
Create two double-page spread layouts - one 'splash' page and one 'turn' page.
- Use at least 800 words of the copy across two spreads
- Use at least three images
- Can create more than one final design\s
Format and Grids
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Contrast and Negative Space
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Visual Research
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Thumbnails
Magazine Assets
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Article Title
Life on Mars Quote “Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.” ~ John Noble Wilford Copy To observers before the dawn of the telescope, Mars was nothing more than a bright light in the sky, but unlike many other lights in the sky, it wasn’t always in the same place in the sky and that made it unusual and more easily noticed. Mars gets its current name from the Roman god of war, however, it went by other names in different cultures. To the people of ancient China, it was known as the “fire star”, ancient Sumerians believed that Mars was Nergal, the god of war and plague, it was referred to in Mesopotamian texts as the “star of judgment of the fate of the dead”. The Greeks knew it as Ares, their god of war. The first person to observe Mars through a telescope was Galileo Galilei in 1610. Other than Earth, Mars is the only other planet in our solar system that has polar ice caps. The northern cap is named the Planum Boreum and the southern cap is named Planum Australe. Under both Martian ice caps, water ice has been found which helps substantiate the possibility of life having existed on the planet at some point. Being farther away from our Sun than Earth is means that Mars takes longer to go around the Sun than Earth does, 687 days to be exact. Its orbit is much more elliptical than Earth’s orbit. Mars is tilted on its axis just like Earth is. Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees like Earth which has an axial tilt of 23.4 degrees. This tilt is why we have seasons on Earth and Mars has seasons also. However, on Mars, those seasons last much longer because of the length of time it takes for Mars to orbit the Sun. Since the orbit of Mars is more elliptical, that is egg-shaped, than Earth’s orbit is, it results in the seasons on Mars to vary in length. The shortest season on mars lasts 142 days and the longest lasts 194 days. While Mars rotates more slowly on its axis than Earth does, a day on Mars lasts only about 41 minutes longer than a Day on Earth does. This is due to the diameter of Mars being about 3,700 miles less than the diameter of Earth. Mars has two small irregularly shaped moons named Phobos and Deimos. Like Mars, their names are derived from Roman times. According to Roman myth, Mars rode on a chariot pulled by two horses named Phobos (fear) and Deimos (panic). Phobos is the larger of the two, measuring 22.2 Km (13.8 miles) across, while Deimos is just 12.6 km (7.8 Miles. By comparison our moon is 1,737.5 km (1,079.6 mi) across. While our moon orbits at an average distance of 384,472 km (238,900 mi) from Earth, Phobos zips around just 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) above the Martian surface. Phobos is also getting closer to Mars, closing in at a rate of about 1.8 meters (6 feet) per century, it’s expected to impact the surface of Mars in about 50 million years. It’s possible that after that collision, the debris may form a ring around the planet. |
A Mountain Climbers Dream
Mars has the tallest mountain in the solar system. Olympus Mons is a 25 km (15.5343 mi or 82021Ft ) high shield volcano that formed billions of years ago. Its base is 624 km (374 mi) in diameter. The largest volcano on Earth, Mauna Loa, is 10 km (6.3 mi) high and 120 km (75 mi) across at its base. Getting to Mars is going to be difficult Mars is a popular target to explore, As of July 15, 2020, a total of 45 missions have been launched, but only 26 have had some level of success. Some were lost during launch, others attempting to orbit the Red Planet, and others attempting to land on it. But those successes have supplied us with astonishing data and images from Mars. Some have astonished both us and the engineers who designed them, such as the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which launched in 2003 and 2004 respectively on what was first thought to be short 90-day missions for the solar-powered rovers. Amazingly, the Spirit rover operated until 2010 and Opportunity operated until 2019! The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is NASA’s next mission to Mars as well as being the most complex and scientifically advanced robotic mission sent to the Red Planet. The $2.4 Billion Mars Perseverance rover is a flagship mission dedicated to the search for signs of life beyond Earth, as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The Perseverance Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of ancient microbial life, characterize Mars’ climate and geology, collect carefully selected samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet as soon as the 2030s. Perseverance will also ferry a separate technology experiment to the surface of Mars — a helicopter named Ingenuity, the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet. Launch is now targeted for a launch opportunity in the July/August timeframe when Earth and Mars are aligned in good positions relative to each other for landing on Mars. The car-sized Perseverance Mars 2020 rover is targeted for liftoff on NET 30 July 2020 aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The approximately month-long launch window for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission currently extends until August 15. Such opportunities are dictated purely by celestial mechanics and only occur every 26 months when the Earth and Mars are properly aligned. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has suffered several significant delays to her launch from the Florida Space Coast to the Red Planet from the original target of July 17 due to contamination and rocket issues as well as staffing level restrictions due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. If NASA and ULA cannot launch Mars 2020 Perseverance within the narrow onemonth-long window of opportunity, she will have to wait another two years until 2022 until the orbits of our Home Planet and the Red Planet align properly to enable blastoff. Such a postponement would cost $0.5 Billion additional funding and the rover would be placed in storage. After launch Mars 2020 Perseverance begins a seven-month-long 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) interplanetary journey to the Red Planet where it will search for signs of life. Perseverance is scheduled to touch down in an area of Mars known as Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The crater is home to an ancient dried-up river delta and a lake that once filled it. The one-ton rover will spend at least one Mars year (two Earth years) exploring the landing site region. Perseverance is a robotic scientist weighing about 2,260 pounds (1,025 kilograms) and includes a robotic arm with a 99-pound (45-kilogram) turret at the end. The rover is equipped with six advanced aluminum wheels on a rocker-bogie system. The SUV sized rover dimensions are 10 feet (3 m) long, 9 feet (2.7 m) wide and 7 feet (2.2 m) tall with a 7 feet (2.1 meters) long robotic arm. The rover is equipped with seven different scientific instruments and the mission includes 25 cameras – the most ever to Mars and deep space. The rover itself is equipped with 19 cameras. |
Images
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Digital Designs
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Final Designs
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Digital Mockups
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