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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	The Rover needs six wheels for the Terran to move around very easily the front and the back are motors to more the wheels the  wheels can move in a 360 degree.
Solar Panel	The solar panels are used to adsorb sunlight and charges it up so it can explorer and find facts about mars.
Laser	The is used to search and discover rocks and land its not a deadly laser the laser is very useful it is one of the imported parts.
Camera	There are 23 camera on the robot so it has full 360 view it has eyes everywhere so it can discover life.
Shovel, rock pick,drill	The shovel can dig to find more facts about mars the drill helps it get through hard rock or stone and the  pick can pick up items and analyze it.

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
Length of 1 day	24 hours
Distance from the sun
Distance from Earth.
Gravity:
Colour:
Temperature	-88 to 57 C
Rainfall
Atmosphere
Surface
Moons and names

Conclusion: Write about what you have learnt.