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Mission 9: Follow Your Curiosity

8/4/2012

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Curiosity is the newest NASA Mars rover and it is on route to Mars right now!  It is scheduled to land on Mars on  Aug 6, 2012  at   1:31 a.m.  Eastern.  NASA  will be tracking it live, but that is probably much too late for you to be up to watch it. 


This is such a cool opportunity for us to learn more about Mars. Scientists are also trying out a brand new way of landing on the surface. The scary part of the landing is that it takes seven minutes to land on the surface. It take longer for it to communicate back to Earth so we will not know how the landing goes until after it has landed!

Your mission this week is to learn more about Curiosity and Mars. Your Science Buddy will need to help you out by helping you work on the computer and looking at the great sites that NASA has developed to help us learn.

First, go to Mars for Kids and play the games and move your own rover.

You can learn more about Curiosity at the Mars Science Laboratory: Follow Your Curiosity.

If you want to explore the solar system and take a closer look at Mars, go to Sunaeon. It is a new website that has really neat simulations of the solar system.

For your Mission Report, design and draw your very own planet rover. Tell me where you would like to send it and how you would get it there. 

Remember, when you have explored for this mission, make sure to add a comment about what you have learned below. If you watched part of the NASA broadcast, let me know that too. 


The video below if from NASA and is a computer generated movie of what they hope will happen with Curiosity lands.

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