Lesson Overview
Get ready for an amazing space mission to Mars! 🚀
Join Sterling and Catalyst to explore the Red Planet, learn fun facts about rovers, craters and volcanoes, and see how scientists study Mars from Earth.
Discover the biggest mountain in the Solar System, design your own rover, and find out if there was ever water on Mars! 🔴
 

Learning Outcomes
• What Mars looks like and why it’s called the Red Planet
• What rovers do and how they explore Mars
• Fun facts about Jezero Crater and Olympus Mons
• How scientists learn about Mars from pictures and robots
 

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Choose rover: Curiosity / Perseverance
Choose your next mission: study 🕳 Jezero Crater or 🌋 Olympus Mons!

Type the correct answers! Be fast!

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Winners 1-5:

My name is...

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Who do you like?

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A. Catalyst

B. Sterling

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Hello! Today we are going to explore Mars!

Let's look at it!

Wow! Mars! Where do we start? 

Would you like to know more about Mars?

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It's called a
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Mars is planet number        from the Sun.

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But we can send a rover - a robot car.

We can't go to Mars yet.

Amazing!
I want to go to Mars! 

Have we got pictures of Mars?
 

Mars rovers can  take pictures!

ART!

https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02697

ART!

https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01120

Crater

https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02006

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meteorites

Why does Mars have craters?

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aliens

meteorites

spaceships

meteorites

Amazing!
Let's send a rover to Mars then.

Let's choose the rover!

Curiosity

Perseverance

Choose your rover

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Curiosity rover can take selfies.

ART!

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/

We can see Curiosity on the map.

Curiosity 

looks

for water.

 Choose your rover design

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Perseverance has a helicopter.  

Perseverance looks for rocks
and bacteria.

And sends a box to the Earth!

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 Choose your rover design

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Our rovers are ready!
How do we send them to Mars?

By rocket!
 

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Please change NAGA to NASA

 

Rockets AtlasV go to Mars from Florida, USA.
 

How long do rockets    fly to Mars?

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   7 days

   7 months

   70 years

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https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20200618-PH-CMM01_0002

The rocket is ready for the rover!

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1 Mars rover costs like 250 planes.

2.5 Billion 

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  Our mission is to study

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Crater Jezero

Olympus Mons

https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23239

 This is Jezero Crater.
Rovers look

for     water
and rocks.

Rover

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sweets

grass

rocks

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At Jezero Crater Rovers looked for

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dinosaurs

https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA26479

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https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA24925

SMILE!
 

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https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-illustration/cinematic-quality-rendered-image-showing-mars-1983173978

Olympus Mons is the biggest mountain
in the
solar system. 

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https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00300

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Mount Everest is higher than Olympus Mons.

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Wow!
Olympus Mons is a volcano
and as big as France!

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