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Mars

How to get to Mars

Aim: To learn about Mars exploration.

1. Rover facts

2. Design, Draw and Make a Rover

3. Mars facts

1. Rover facts:

What are the 5 parts for?

Link: Rovers 5 parts

Fill in the table below.

Name:	Purpose:
Wheels	The purpose of wheels is to get across hard terrain and travel across the planet to find new exciting things.
Solar Panel	For the solar panels to work they need to be flapped up so that the sun can reach them, The Rovers need the energy to drive so they use solar panels, solar panels are a source of connecting or transferring energy when the sun is shining on the solar panels.
Laser	To cut threw rocks or other materials, or Protection.
Camera	There are 23 cameras on any of the Nasa Rovers the main camera in the front on the long arm can make a 360 spin, new facts, The Rovers cameras are for taking photos of Mars and its terrain so that the scientists on earth can find out more about how Mars works.
Shovel, rock pick, drill	They need these types of stuff on their Rovers to scan, what type of materials or what the terrain of the planet is so we can live on the planet...

2. In groups of 3, you will Design, Draw and
Make a Mars Rover out of Lego Technics.

Materials:

1. Lego Technics
2. A4 paper
3. Pencil
4. Ruler
5. Eraser

The drawing and model must have:

• 6 wheels
• 1 camera
• 1 tool at the front that includes a shovel, pick and drill.
• 1 solar panel
• 1 laser that points at the ground

( Take a photo and upload  your Mars rover onto your blog.)

3. Mars Facts

Link: Facts

You will need to find out the following:

Fact	Earth	Mars
Picture of planet
Length of 1 year	365 days	687 Days
Length of 1 day	24 hours	1d 0h 37m
Distance from the sun	149.6 million km	227.9 million km
Distance from Earth.	54.6 million km	54.6 million km
Gravity:	9.806 m/s²	3.711 m/s²
Colour:	Blue, Green & White...	Red, Maroon, White
Temperature	-88 to 57 C	-80 to 60 C (Average)
Rainfall	39 inches	518m
Atmosphere	Nitrogen   Oxegen Argon Others	Carbon Dioxide Water Vapor
Surface	510.1 million km	144.8 million km
Moons and names	Moon   Our home...	Deimos Phobos

Conclusion: Write about what you have learned.

I Have learned that mars have other names to it,
and how the atmosphere works or is built from,
I have learned that time is different in some ways
because of one year at mars, actually a true fact,
One year is 687 days & One day is 1D 0H 37M I thought that was Really Cool.