Article review, The potential for habitability on another planet or moon The potential for the discovery of natural resources on another planet, moon, comet or asteroid

Please read all of the information below carefully before beginning your assignment.
PURPOSE OF THIS ASSIGNMENT: To expose you to future space missions and to improve your scientific literacy and critical thinking by providing an opportunity to formulate an informed opinion about the value of space exploration.
INTRODUCTION: You are a member of the advisory committee of an international funding organization for space missions. The funding objective of your organization is:
Assisting the world’s government-funded space agencies in the exploration of space for the tangible benefit of humanity by contributing to our knowledge in at least one of the following areas:
• The potential for habitability on another planet or moon
• The potential for the discovery of natural resources on another planet, moon, comet or
asteroid
• Climate change on another planet or moon
Each year, your organization chooses 1 space mission to contribute funding for. Your job is to identify two future space missions that are still in the planning stage and to submit a summary of each mission as well as an argument for why each mission is consistent with your organization’s funding objectives.
INSTRUCTIONS: For each review, follow the steps below.
1. Download the Mission Review Template (a link to this template can also be found in the Space
Mission Review section of our Moodle site).
2. Choose a FUTURE space mission: At present, there are 4 government-funded space agencies with interplanetary launch capabilities and for which mission information is publically available. These are:

NOTE: One of your reviews will be due in the middle of the term and the other review will be due near the end of the term. This will give you the opportunity to use the feedback from your 1st review to improve on your 2nd review. The due dates for each review can be found at the Course Schedule link in the General Information section of our Moodle site as well as at http://www.yorku.ca/rfinger/ns1530/f18/ns1530-f18-sched.pdf.
Space Agency
Agency mission website
European Space Agency
ESA
Indian Space Research Organization
ISRO
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JAXA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA
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Choose a FUTURE space mission from one of the agency websites in the list above. The target of the mission must be a planet (OTHER THAN EARTH) or a moon, asteroid or comet. The mission can be in any stage of the planning/development process as long as it is not currently in operation (ie, post- launch).
3. Complete the Mission Review Template: Complete the mission review template by filling in the following sections:
• Mission Information: provide the space agency, mission name, target(s) and proposed launch date. (Year only is sufficient if the date and month have not been specified by the space agency).
• Mission Summary (350-400 words): Provide a summary of the mission and its science objective(s). Include any other information that you deem relevant for the summary (eg, the length of the mission, the cost of the mission, any targets that the craft will visit on the way to its final destination, features that make the mission unique, etc.) Your summary must be in your own words, with no quoting from other sources, and the language must be comprehensible to someone with no scientific background. Acronyms must be defined and technical lingo must be explained in layperson’s terms, which means that you may need to look up unfamiliar words using an encyclopaedic source such as Wikipedia.
• Mission Justification (300-350 words): Provide an argument in support of funding for your chosen mission by explaining how the science objectives meet your funding organization’s vision to contribute to the “…exploration of space for the tangible benefit of humanity…” in at least one of the 3 areas listed in the Introduction section above. Your arguments do not need to be infallible, but they do need to be reasonable and thoughtful.
VERY IMPORTANT: All information in your summary must include an in-text citation so that the reader can fact-check your statements. Each statement (or block of related statements) should be followed by a number in superscript (eg, “Here is a fact.”1). The superscript must correspond to one of the references in the Works Cited section (see below).
NOTE: If you include any additional facts or figures in this section, be sure to include in-text citations after each fact.
TIP: Making a strong argument is much easier when you are arguing about something that you are passionate about. When choosing your mission, try to choose something that you feel a strong reaction to when you read about it.
• Works Cited: Provide the primary website that you obtained your mission information from. The website should be referenced using the MLA citation format. Also, if you include any facts or figures from other sources, be sure to reference these sources in this section as well.
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TIP: A handy online generator for MLA references can be found at http://www.easybib.com/. Citations to Wikipedia pages can be generated by clicking on the “Cite this page” link on the relevant page, then scrolling down to the citation listed under “MLA style”.
4. Edit your work: When you’ve completed your mission review, make sure to have it spell-checked and edited so that you don’t lose marks for poor writing. Here are some ways to get your work edited:
• Ask a friend or family member with excellent English writing skills, preferably someone with no science background so they can confirm that your writing is understandable for a layperson.
• Use an editing tool, either built into your word-processor or online (eg, Grammarly at https://www.grammarly.com/).
• Take (or send) your work to York’s Writing Center (http://writing-centre.writ.laps.yorku.ca/).
• Meet with a writing instructor at York’s Learning Commons Hub, located on the 2nd floor of
the Scott Library. Visit the Hub in person to find out their hours.
• If you are an ESL student, make an appointment at York’s ESL Open Learning Centre
(http://eslolc.laps.yorku.ca/).
5. Submit your work: Go to the Space Mission Review section of our Moodle site and click on the
appropriate ‘Mission Review <#>: Upload’ link, then click on the ‘Submit to TurnItIn’ icon ( upload your completed file.
6. Check that your file was submitted successfully: After uploading your file, click on the link in the ‘Similarity’ column (even if it says ‘Pending’). This should open your report in the TurnItIn document viewer. Confirm that your file appears as it should.
NOTE: Within 24 hours of submitting your file, your work will be assigned a ‘Similarity’ score. This is the percentage of your content that matches existing sources, such as web sites or other students’ papers. A similarity score of 0%-30% is normal for this type of assignment. If your similarity score is greater than 30%, you should click on the link to your file in the ‘Similarity’ column to open your file in the TurnItIn document viewer. Text that has been matched with existing sources will be highlighted. If the highlighted sections are primarily lists of names or places, then no revisions are necessary. However, if the highlighted sections contain complete sentences from an existing source, you should rewrite the sentence in your own words to avoid losing marks. Revised files can be resubmitted up to the deadline.
ALSO NOTE: If you submit your file within 24 hours of the due date, the similarity report might not be completed by the submission deadline. This does not mean that your file is late, but it does
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NOTE: When uploading your file, please enter the name of your chosen mission as the Submission Title.
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mean that you will not be able to revise your file if the similarity score is high. So, try to submit your file at least 48 hours in advance of the deadline.
PLAGIARSM: Plagiarism is a major academic offence and carries serious penalties, ranging from a failing grade on the work in question to a failing grade in the course. Students who have not yet completed University-level writing assignments are encouraged to complete the Academic Integrity module of York ’s Student Papers and Academic Research Toolkit (SPARK) at https://spark.library.yorku.ca/academic-integrity-module-objectives/. This is a very useful resource for learning the important distinction between summarizing someone else’s work and plagiarizing their work.
EVALUATION: The evaluation of your work will be available approximately 3-4 weeks after each due date. Your total mark for each letter is computed from a detailed rubric. A preview of the rubric can be viewed as follows:
1. From the ‘Mission Review <#>: Upload’ link, click on the link to your submitted file. This will open your file in the TurnItIn document viewer.
2. On the right side of the viewer, you’ll see a column of buttons. Click on the Rubric/Form button
( ).This will open up the evaluation rubric, where you can see a detailed breakdown of the evaluation criteria. After your review is marked, the rubric will be filled in by a Teaching Assistant.

PLEASE NOTE: While we appreciate that students are anxious to receive their marks, please be aware that high-quality and thorough marking of written assignments is a time-consuming process. Students are therefore asked to refrain from requesting their marks. A course announcement will be posted when the marking has been completed for each set of reviews.
ALSO NOTE: If you feel that a review(s) has been marked incorrectly, you will have an opportunity at the end of the course to request a reassessment in cases where the marking error is preventing you from achieving the next highest letter grade. Details about this process will be provided in the Course Announcements forum at the end of the term.
ENJOY!

the paper structure should be like this :
SC/NATS1530M 3.0
Science of Space Flight & Exploration
MISSION REVIEW
MISSION INFORMATION
Space agency:
Mission name:
Target(s):
Proposed launch year:
MISSION SUMMARY (350-400 words)

MISSION JUSTIFICATION (300-350 words)

WORKS CITED
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