Mars Science Laboratory

Activity 4: Egg Drop Lesson Objective: Students will design, build and implement a safe carrier in which to drop an egg (interplanetary rover). Set-Up: All supplies can be left on a communal table. Students will need to first come up with a design and supply list for their carrier. Once it has been approved by their facilitator they can start to choose what they will need. Demo and discussion: Because it is topical, start your discussion off with a brief synopsis of the New Horizons probe…

signals. This instrument/tool is called the Allen Telescope Array. The Allen Telescope Array, also known as A.T.A., is a system of radio dishes that was initially developed using both the efforts of the S.E.T.I. Institute and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Funding for the Allen Telescope Array came from Microsoft billionaire, Paul Allen. Mr. Allen gave away thirty million dollars to the project. The Allen Telescope Array is located in Hat Creek Radio…

It's understood that films are viewed with our eyes and heard with our ears but, "Scavengers" is proof that you can also implement taste and smell into film even if the smells and taste are absolutely disgusting. The title, "Scavengers" flew over my head even after the opening summary that states that the main characters of the film were left stranded on a strange planet after communication from VESTA-1 (a spacecraft) was lost. As the animation takes place we learned that the VESTA-1 was…

the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s arrival to planet Mars, Deputy project scientist Dr. Leslie Tamppari presented a summary of NASA’s research and discoveries. Within the last decade, over two hundred and fifty terabytes of data have been sent home by the spacecraft, giving us insight about the Red Planet during the ongoing search of water and habitable zones. The idea of water on Mars has such high relevance because it is a necessity to any type of living organism. Although present day Mars…

The objects between 42 and 47 AU are in very stable orbits – not affected in any significant way by any of the planets. Like the “classical” planets, these objects are in nearly circular orbits, so were given the name “Classical KBOs” (CKBOs), by David Jewitt. Of the CKBOs, about one-third have a low orbital inclination of around 2o – these are the “Cold” CKBOs. The remaining two-thirds have a much higher inclination of up to 20o or more – the “Hot” CKBOs. Hot and cold do not have anything to do…

Thank you for choosing my school to select three artifacts for a time capsule that will be taken to Mars on your next space mission. I have chose three artifacts that would be significant to the future generation. These three artifacts consist of, a CD, a book, and a phone. I think these items would be significant because they were such monumental changes in our society today. The first artifact I chose is the CD, “Straight to DVD 2”. CD’s are disks that hold data, the data on the CD can be…

For my major paper I would like to discuss the ethnographic component of Lucian’s account of the moon people in his True Histories. This would cover both how Lucian’s describes these people and the significance of what he is describing. I would begin by discussing the influence of other authors in his description of the moon people. His account is similar to those of historical authors and their descriptions of non-Greeks and their unusual customs. I would use this section to explore any…

For example, thanks to the Kepler, telescope launched in 2009, scientists now know that there are possibly over 3,000 planets orbiting over 2,000 stars in the Milky Way galaxy none of which were known about until the last couple of years! Orbiter and Mars rovers, Spirit, Opportunity,…

Building bottle rockets can be a fun and learning experience, as many students at UCAS found out. There were many things to test, and many interesting aspects of the rocket. Three main features of the “Mission to Mars” are how to construct the rocket, rocket performance, and physics of the rocket. When these items are viewed, it is evident that students can see the effects of physics in real life problems. And by doing so become more intelligent as teenagers want to learn more, and have fun…

water existing on Mars. Water is pretty common here on Earth, so why is this such a big deal? The big deal is that this is one of the biggest discoveries in Mars history. The discovery of liquid water, provides limitless options from colonization, to the fact that there may be life there now. But how did the media impact this disclosure? Normally space discoveries never get extremely popular. I thought to myself what was so different about this one. I conceded that since life on Mars has been…