Prepare for boarding

MARS NavigationGPS

Mars at close orbit …

is 35 million miles away………

MARS LANDING SAUCER

Take off in a

Delta Rocket

                                                                                                    

Heading to MarsThru the cold darkness of space

It will take seven months for us to reach Mars.

Engineers adjust flight paths along the way. A small trajectory error can result in a big detour where the rocket would miss the planet entirely.

SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS MAKE MANY DECISIONS DURING THESE MISSIONS.

Mars is in sight…

Preparing for .. de –orbit burn

                                                                           

MARS

You have arrived

Establishing an orbit

We must slow down and get ready forlanding.

We are going to look for a place to land near the equatorso that we can have sunlight

We will be using solar power

  Mars has two polar ice caps composed of water ice and solid

carbon dioxide ("dry ice")

MARSATMOSPHERE

CARBON DIOXIDENITROGENARGONOXYGEN

A supersonic parachute will slow its descent.

SAUCER

Robot is inside this balloon

The balloons help the robot land softly

AIR BAGS WITH ROBOTS INSIDE

ROBOT ROLLS OUT ON MARS

Greetings, welcome to planet

mars

IT TAKES 15 MINUTES FOR TRANSMISSION SIGNALS TO REACH MARS FROM EARTH.

15 min.

FIRST MARS MISSION: PATHFINDER ROBOT NAMED SOJOURNER

FIRST LANDING

MARS SOIL

If you lived on Mars ,

this would be your backyard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/sc/120303mars&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=0&e=19&a=0

                                                                                                                               

                 

FIRST PICTURE OF MARS SENT BACK BY THE MARS ROVER

First… robot sent to mars 1971Prop M. …. By the RussiansSize of a shoebox

First U.S. ROBOT SOJOURNER

2- ROCKETS WERE LAUNCHED 2003

Each carrying a robot

MARS ROBOTS

Spirit

Opportunity

                                                                                                                      

Robot “Spirit” next to a 6th grade girl

This young girl named the robots:

Spirit

Opportunity

Size of a golf cart

She was born in Russia and adopted

by an American family when she was two years old.

This is what she wrote that won a

contest she had entered.

I used to live in an orphanage. It was cold , dark & lonely.

At night, I looked up at the sky to feel better. I dreamed I could fly there. In America, I can make all my dreams come true.

Thank-you for the 'Spirit' and the 'Opportunity'

SPIRIT&OPPORTUNITY ROBOTS

PICTURES

FROM

SPIRIT

                                                                                               

MARS ROVER

Engineers study manuals to perform delicate operations

NASA program started 2012

Curiosity… the newest robot sent to marsWeight 1 ton …… Launched 2012

Size of a small car

SaucerCapsule

Curiosity

Robots to Mars

1. Prop M 1971 Russians2. Sojourner 19973. Spirit 20034. Opportunity 20035. Curiosity 2012

FUTURE EXPLORATION OF MARS

This is what mars could look like in 100 years

I forgot my Iphone

This is a picture for now… and some day may be a reality

Heading home

SecurityCheckpoint

Make sure you have your

boarding passes

Come back soon.. We will be waiting

It will take us 7 months to return back to earth

Re-entering earth’s atmosphere

After we landed … we found we had a visitor on board

Take me to your leader….