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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 two front and two rear wheels also have individual steering motors. This steering capability allows the vehicle to turn in place, a full 360 degrees. The four-wheel steering also allows the rover to swerve and curve, making arcing turns.
Solar Panel	It produces electricity to the rover using sunlight
Laser	Gathering Increased Science, or AEGIS. It allows the rover to control its own use of ChemCam, an instrument that learns the chemical composition of rocks by zapping them with a laser and studying the resulting gasses.
Camera	The rover has several cameras focused on engineering and science tasks. Some help us land on Mars, while others serve as our “eyes” on the surface to drive around. We use others to do scientific observations and aid in the collection of samples.
Shovel, rock pick,drill	To dig hole on the mars and collect information if there is water on mars and picking up stones

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 than includes a shovel, pick and drill.
• 1 solar panel
• 1 laser that points at the ground

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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.	0.00km	54.6 million kilometres
Gravity:	9.807 m/s²	3.711 m/s²
Colour:	green blue	reddish
Temperature	Average 57 degrees F	Average -81 degrees F
Rainfall	990 millimetres (39 in)	NO RAINFALL
Atmosphere	78% nitrogen  21% oxygen 1% other	96% carbon dioxide <2% argon <2% nitrogen <1% nitrogen
Surface	510.1 million km²	17.2 million square miles or 44.5 million square km
Moons and names	Moon	Phobos Deimus

Conclusion: Today in our science I've learned a lot of information about the planet Mars like there are 687 days in a single year, its distance from the Earth is 54.6 million kilometres and its distance from the sun is 227.9 million kilometres, The length of a day there is 1d 0h 37m, The name of its moon there are Phobos and Deimus .