In order to have life on Mars it needs 5 main things, oxygen, food, water, sunlight, and ideal temperatures. Without these conditions, life on Mars would be extremely hard to achieve. In our science fair project, we wanted to try a solution to increase Mars's atmosphere. One of the most effective ways to warm planets is by using greenhouse gases which trap heat. Using research, we found out that Mars has poles just like Earth which contains a lot of CO2 (a greenhouse gas). So, we figured that it would be effective if we used some sort of tool that could extract CO2 from the Martian ice caps and release them back into the atmosphere, to trap in more of the sun's rays leading to a warmer planet and since this method does not require fuel or any fuel source it is more efficient then other machines that use chemical reactions because they need fuel.

1) Using a shovel, create 2 identical holes in the snow, preferably in the shade so the boxes can fit inside them.

2) Grab the boxes and the lids and scale and dry ice.

3) Place a block of dry ice in one container then put on the lid and record the weight using the scale, do the same for the control and make sure that they are roughly the same weight.

4) Add the hand warmers over the batteries in the rover and turn on the heaters.

5) Open the lid of the test and put the rover directly overtop of the dry ice.

6) Place both of the boxes in the holes you created earlier and push the snow around it so all the sides except for the top are surrounded by snow.

7) Every ten minuets check on the boxes, first, open the lid of the test and take out the rover, wait 5 seconds to let the CO2 gas out, then put the lid back on, then pat down the box to make sure there is no snow and weigh it.

8) After you weigh the test repeat with the control making sure you let out the gas and pat down the container.

9) Record the weights of both containers every ten minuets up to an hour.

Our graph shows the results of our experiment. During our trial, we simultaneously compared the test (which contained the rover) and the control we compared it to. The starting weights of the control was 1343g, and the test was 1334g, so they were pretty similar. When testing, the first two tests went great they started at 1334g and went down to 1117g, then finally down to 954g, which was significantly better than the control. In the next test, we noticed that the battery stopped working even though we used rechargeable batteries that gather energy from the sun, the lid kept the cold in and blocked out the sun, making them not recharge. After a couple of tests, the control started to flatten out. This was probably due to it getting much colder between tests. However, this was important because the plateau in the control affected chat GPT’s interpretation of the graph.

In conclusion, our device sublimated the ice faster than the control, which makes it a lot more efficient. The first two tests produced results that showed significant improvement over the control, further enhancing the efficiency of our device. Even if chat GPT gave us inaccurate data our first two tests contradict that since it was a huge improvement.