My Paraphrases

Writing Class, P.134

Paraphrases

Original Passage 4

Source: Page 48 of a nine-page magazine article written by Jeffrey Kluger. The article appeared on pages 42-50 in the January 26, 2004, issue of Time maga¬zine. The title of the article is "Mission to Mars: First the Rover Lands, and Now Bush Wants to Send People. We Can Do It Even Faster Than Planned, but Here Is What It Will Take."

Speed is everything on the way to Mars and not only because a seven-month trip in a confined space can be torturous. The bigger problem is that it can be lethal because of radiation exposure in deep space, where the absence of Earth's magnetic field leaves astronauts far more exposed to deadly cosmic energy than they are in orbit or on the way to the moon.

My paraphrases:

The most important thing to go to Mare is speed beside more than six months journey is circuitous because it is in a tight space. The radiation exposure in outer space could be fatal because there is no Earth's magnetic field, so astronauts could be exposed to any problem from cosmic energy; in contrast, they could be safer in orbit or on the way to the moon (Kluger, 2004, P.48).