Speaking of science to young people means betting on the future and this is all the more true when the subject is space exploration. Until not long ago, space was fiction, in recent years is becoming a more and more concrete reality, both for the many technological innovations that space research brings to the life of every day, and because space is increasingly a place to work and that, even on Earth, requires the contribution of engineers, technicians, physicists, astrophysicists, biologists. For all these reasons is great news that the adventure of space has been one of the tracks of the mature themes .
The texts proposed to the kids for short essay also put highlight another important aspect of space, presenting it as an adventure profoundly human. That the space station is already an extraordinary research lab witness one of the three texts proposed to students for scientific-technical short essay: that in which Simone Valesini tells Wired Futura mission of the first female Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
the other two texts look to a more distant future, with the chance to discover one day water-rich planets and perhaps life, like Earth. He speaks of the passage taken from the book of the astronaut Umberto Guidoni “Traveling beyond the sky” (Rizzoli, Milan 2014).
The other text, I was surprised and pleased to see among those selected proposed for the maturity, is a service that I wrote for the agency ANSA and taken by the newspaper La Repubblica. Refers to the great enthusiasm with which, in 2015, had been greeted the discovery that still flows on Mars liquid water and missions that are helping to reconstruct the history of the planet became the next goal of space exploration and that perhaps , some of the guys who have started today the exams, will be lucky enough to see up close.
Here is the article of 29 September 2015 by Enrica Battifoglia
more and more ” eyes’ on Mars, in 2016 the new part is called ExoMars mission
, speaks Italian and aims to discover life
(Enrica Battifoglia)
(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 29 – the water flowing on Mars and ‘the first great confirmation after years of intense research, which has seen a multiplication of the’ eyes’ fixed on the red planet, including sensors, radar and cameras board satellites and rovers. But the best is probably yet to come ’cause the next bet and’ being able to find life forms, organisms lived in the past or maybe still active and able to survive in such a ‘extreme environment. E ‘in this spirit that in 2016 prepares to reach the Martian orbit the first phase of a new mission by 1.2 billion euro. It’s called ExoMars, and ‘organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italy and’ in the front row with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and its industry.
” Surely Mars continue ‘to give us surprises”, he told ANSA president of ASI, Roberto Battiston. One announced yesterday by NASA ” and ‘the latest in a long series and essentially tells us that Mars and’ a place where there ‘water, although with mode’ different from those we are used to on Earth . We know – continued – that most of the water which is located on the planet and ‘frozen and is located in the subsoil, but there’ s also water that flows and solidifies in quantita ‘limited, but sufficient to change color and characteristics the ” surface. The launch of the ExoMars mission and ‘scheduled by January 2016, with a first phase which includes a module in orbit around the planet and a descent module. This and ‘a demo module built in Italy, in the factories of Turin of Thales Alenia Space. For 2018 also, and ‘a second stage, conducted by ESA with the participation of Russia. This time a rover, named in honor of the astronomer Schiaparelli at the end of ’800 I observe’ the famous canals on Mars, will explore ‘the surface of Mars and will punch’ with Italian drill up to a depth ‘of two meters, chasing traces of life. The drill and ‘the’ big brother ‘to that of the Rosetta lander Philae mission, the first man-made vehicle ever landed on a comet.
‘ ‘In light of the enthusiasm and fascination aroused by discovery of NASA – noted Battiston – we can say that the mission ExoMars will bring ‘for the first time on the planet a drill capable of penetrating in depth’. Andra ‘to get information in the area that we know is rich in water, mostly’ ice: it ‘s very interesting to study the composition and find traces of chemical components that can be connected to biological phenomena’ ‘. (HANDLE).
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