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The environment on the earth is changing rapidly. Most scientists now agree that the human population and the industrial revolution are a primary cause of many of these changes, but natural fluctuation of the earth’s climate is also contributing to climate changes. Scientists have suggested exploration of Venus and Mars could help us to understand our own changing environment and predict its future.
Your consulting firm has been asked to prepare a series of three articles for the local newspaper to help inform the public of the potential for using future exploration of Venus or Mars to understand our environment on earth. While you are encouraged to make use of printed and internet resources, each article is to be in your own words. List all references, and quote any statements taken directly from other sources. All work is to be typed, double spaced, with 12 font and 1 inch margins. Mr. Komp has provided a copy of the assignment for you here. (Inner Planet Project) There is also a link to the rubric by which you will be graded.
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