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Summary Of The Story 'Follow The Water'
In the story “Follow the Water” by Jennifer L. Holm a girl named Georgie is dragged out to mars with her parents who are there to search for water. To live on mars you need to know a lot of information which can be found in the article “What Would it Take to Live Here” by Mackenzie Carro.

On the way to mars Georgie talks about how on the six month trip there she read a book called Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. In “ What would it take to live here” a realistic time to get to mars is nine months. Mars is 140 million miles away from earth. We do not have the technology to take humans that far away.Engineers are constructing the strongest rocket ever to carry people deep into outer space.

The planet mars is smaller than earth so it doesn’t

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