Terraforming Group

Student Names: Greycin, Paul, Lior, Grace

Project GOAL

What was the mission or aim of your project?
The aim of our project was trying to find out which colour can absorb the most possible heat between white, brown, gray and black so we can reduce the albedo on Mars by covering it with carbon dust or a good substitute that's the same as our chosen colour.
Why was this your mission?
We wanted to explore the best and most viable way to increase the temperature on Mars, and to terraform it, we would need to start by warming Mars to temperatures similar to earth and make sure that it would overall be safe enough for all the life to live on. Therefore, as a terraforming group, it's our job to kick off the overall mars transformation process.

ACTION

What action/experiment did you take? We coloured four ornament balls in white, grey, black and brown. We then put a heat lamp over the ornaments. We started by turning on the lamp and setting the timer for 5 minutes. We took the results of different positions of the lamp (height wise) and the amount of balls underneath. We then turned off the lamp and measured the temperature of the ornaments after every 5 minutes.
How did you use what you learned in grade 9 science in the design? We learnt about how wavelengths of light can let you see colours and objects. And how we also learnt that different colours absorb different amounts of wavelengths of light which cause to heat some colours more than others. We used our knowledge and made a microbit thermometer as well.
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WHERE IT COULD GO NEXT...

Pitch a next phase for your project.
Inspire a future group of students to pick up where you left off. If any new students were to pick up where we left off we would make sure to tell them that during the experiment, they should probably test another set of colours like green, purple, yellow and blue and test something also change up the control variable as well and overall just try make it more interesting and fun.
Why is this an important cause?
This is an important cause because if NASA is really trying to find ways to live on mars. This can be a method for them to look into. Why should they continue with it? They should continue with it because it is important for every student to understand the things you need to terraform a planet and make it safe to live on
Where would you like to see it go next?
We would like for this project to go far and not necessarily just to terraform mars but to innovate our future for the better with the knowledge our group has gathered here today.

WHAT DID YOU LEARN...

Each member of the group should reflect on what they learned. You may have learned some neat stuff about science, but you also learned some other great skills like time management, goal setting, collaboration, and problem solving. We have learned all of the goals that were already listed. Time management, goal setting, collaboration, and problem solving

Paul- During this project I learned many things that I had no idea about before. Some of the things I learned were the temperature of mars, how long it takes to get to mars, and some of the things

Greycin- While I was doing this project I learnt many things about colours affecting temperature. I also learnt how distance from a heat source can affect the heating of a planet/object very much. I now know that mars' moon phobos and deimos have some of the blackest bodies in our solar system which we could use to coat mars in a dark coloured dust. As for academically I learn how to work in groups a bit better and use other sources/groups for more ideas.

Grace-This space camp project brought me a lot of new interesting knowledge, such as how the shade of the color of the balls and their distance from the heat souce(sun) affects the amount of heat they absorb. Deeper color reflect less energy than lighter ones, according to that result we can cover Mars with black dust to reduce the albedo and increase its temperature, which would make it more safe and habitable for life. Throughout this research, there are also many terms I added to my vocabulary during this project that I think would contribute to my future learning for science lessons. In addition to academic progress, I developed my leadership skills as well. Since I had little experience with group projects in my old school, I didn't realize my potential ability of being a leader. I was shy and unconfident due to that English isn't my first language, I used to be always panic when I needed to talk. Therefore, instead of taking the charge of a leader, I took the role of the monitor. But in the course of providing ideas and reasearch, conducting experiments and conmmunicating with my group members actively, I discovered that I was fairly adept at doing so, I could definitely take more responsibilities than a monitor. Teamwork was really important in this project, but another indispensable thing is working on assignments alone and efficiently. I was surprised when I found myself working for the instagram post two hours straight, I made it visibly pleasing and also organized. I learned that when you actually care about a project, you wouldn't even notice how much time and effort you put in it, and you could be really productive when you just focus on doing one specific thing.

Lior- I have learned how light waves affect the objects and colours around us. Like we explained earlier that some colors absorb more light waves because they are darker and cannot reflect all the light waves hitting it. But this wasn't the only thing i've learned because before we chose this experiment we had to decide between the one we chose and a satellite mirror that would reflect light beams from the sun back onto mars basicly controlling the amount of albedo that mars has but due to most of the times experiments being fails they never continued.

Results..

In the first trail the balls were far from the lamp. The results were not that high but very simular in temperature change. Black and grey had +4 which was the max temperature risen. +2 was the minimun temperature change by white and brown

The second trail had differnt results. each ball was close to the lamp and were heated much faster. in this trail the colours really changed the output. such as white with +2(min) degreese and black with +10(max)

All of the balls were measured at the same time in trail 3. Also they were close to the lamp. as well as trail two the temperature changed much more than trail 1. the max tempearture change was from grey with +9 and the minimum was white with +5.

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