Aim: To design and build a Mars Rover using Lego Technics.
1. Rover facts
2. Design and make draw Rover
3. Mars facts
Research links:
Mission to Mars - NASA
Mars rover view
1. Rover facts
Why do we have each of the parts?
Fill in the table below.
Name:
|
Purpose:
|
Wheels
| So It can move around Mars. |
Solar Panel
| So It can charges it's battery from the energy of the Sun. |
Laser
| Is for detecting things in the distance, they are like eyes. |
Camera
| So the people can see through the camera what's the environment looks like. |
Shovel, rock pick, drill
| It is for if there was a big rock that looked different from any other rock there and picks it up. |
Mars Rover details:
2. Make a Mars Rover that has the following:
- 6 wheels
- 1 camera
- 1 shovel, rock pick, at the front
- 1 solar panel
- 1 laser that points at the ground
 |
| This is our Rover made out of Lego's |
Peoples that with me to make this amazing Lego Rovers are;
Shreya, Risha, Nevaeh and myself.
You will need to find out the following:
Fact
|
Earth
|
Mars
|
Picture of planet
|  |  |
Length of 1 year
| 365 days | 687 days |
Length of 1 day
| 24 hours | 1d Oh 37 m |
Distance from the sun
| 149.6 million km | 227.9 million km |
Distance from Earth.
| It's already in the Earth | 54.6 million kilometers |
Gravity:
| 9.807 m/s² |
3.711 m/s²
|
Colour:
| Blue and a little bit of Green | Reddish |
Temperature
| -88 to 57 C | 195 degrees F |
| Rainfall | 990 mm | Rain doesn't exist on Mars |
Atmosphere
|
|
1. Mars atmosphere is
not yet hospitable to humans.
2. Scientist think we might
be able to live on Mars in the
upcoming years.
|
Surface
| 1. Rocky, Mountainy or Smooth. 2. Earth has water perhaps, It's 70% of the |
1. Rocky, Dry, and
Hard and full of
Reddish colour rocks.
2. Like I said, The surface
of Mars are dry, that you can
walk on it.
|
Moons and names
|
1. Moon
| 1. Demios 2. Phobos |
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