Hurumanu - Mars

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	To move around mars to experiment and test.
Solar Panel	To reflect on the sun.
Laser	Burning the rock taking samples
Camera	To take photos, and send them to NASA
Shovel, rock pick,drill	Shovel: Picking up bits rock for taking samples

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

 ( 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
Length of 1 day	24 hours	1d 0h 37m
Distance from the sun	149.6 million km	227.9 million km
Distance from Earth.	Earth orbits the sun 100,000 times closer than the Oort Cloud, at an average of 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 km). The distance from Earth to the sun is called an astronomical unit, or AU, which is used to measure distances throughout the solar system.	Close Approach is when Mars and Earth come nearest to each other in their orbits around the sun. Close is a relative term. The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers).
Gravity:	9.807 m/S2	3.711 m/S2
Colour:	Blue	Reddish
Temperature	-88 to 57 C	Average -81 degrees F
Rainfall	"Because Earth's average annual rainfall is about 100 cm (39 inches), the average time that the water spends in the atmosphere, between its evaporation from the surface and its return as precipitation, is about 1/40 of a year, or about nine days."	The low density of the Martian atmosphere means that winds of 18 to 22 m/s (65 to 79 km/h) are needed to lift dust from the surface, but since Mars is so dry, the dust can stay in the atmosphere far longer than on Earth, where it is soon washed out by rain.
Atmosphere	nitrogen, oxygen, argon, others	mostly carbon dioxide, some water vapor
Surface	Surface of the Earth. Most of the Earth's surface (70%) is covered with water, and the remaining 30% is taken up by the seven continental landmasses. However, underneath the water that fills the oceans, and the dirt and plants that cover the continents, the Earth's surface layer is made of rock.	Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.
Moons and names	1   Earth moon	2 Phobos Deimos

Conclusion: Write about what you have learnt.
I have learnt that mars is very far away and very far from the sun. The name of the mars moon is Phobos Deimos and I have never heard that name before. Also the mars surface is terrestrial planet with, a thin atmosphere when there's more surfaces on earth, and the colour of mars is reddish you can see that on my table chart.