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Maggie Goes to Mars

A broad field of flattened rocks stretches to a horizons dominated by two foothills on Mars.
NASA’s Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024, the 4,352nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The Mars rover’s tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Levels
  • intermediate
Requirements
  • low_tech
  • low_cost
Helio Topics
  • space_weather
  • solar_flare
Helio Missions
  • parker_solar_probe
Credit Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Language
  • english

Link to Lesson Plan https://iittl.unt.edu/sites/default/files/maggiegoestomarslessonplanfinal2021.pdf

This is a self-guided online challenge for students to become space cadets. Background: Help! The Mars Insight Rover has hit a snag! Currently, NASA engineers and scientists are occupied with the Perseverance Mission to Mars. They are searching for promising space cadets to help with the Insight Rover currently on Mars. The Insight Rover has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the “mole” burrow into Mars. Unfortunately, a nearby rockslide has buried part of the arm and it can no longer assist the mole. To get the Insight Mission back on track, NASA needs YOU to help plan and execute the rescue mission to Mars. Because NASA won’t be ready to send humans to Mars until around the year 2030, man’s best friend and canine astronaut extraordinaire, Maggie, has been enlisted to help you complete this mission.