NEWVIRTUALMISSION!

FeaturingFormerNASAAstronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger

DESTINATIONMARS

Deliveredinreal-time,onlinebyChallengerLearningCenterFlightDirectors

ResearchersarereadytoexploreMars, butthere’soneglaringproblem–more than40millionmilesseparateEarthfrom Mars.Studentswillgoonamissionto analyzedataanddeterminewhichofthe RedPlanet'smoonsisthebestlocation forbuildingaresearchbase.

Designedfor5-6gradestudentsandaligned tonationaleducationstandards
1-hour experience deliveredfromstartto finishbyaFlightDirector Perfectforremote,hybrid,andsocially distantclassrooms Featuressmallgroupandwholeclass activities
Studentsneed adevicewithaudioand videocapabilityandaninternetconnection Nohandoutsorsuppliesneeded

Give Your Students a Virtual Space Mission Experience!

The Mission: Researchers are ready to explore Mars, but there’s one glaring problem – more than 40 million miles separate Earth from the Red Planet. This distance makes it impossible to travel back and forth between the two planets while completing our research. We need to build a base on one of the Red Planet’s moons, Deimos or Phobos, that will allow us to send a spacecraft to the surface of Mars and back in the fastest and safest way possible. Student teams will select which moon is best to build a base by analyzing three sets of data collected by rovers on Deimos and Phobos.

The team’s research efforts come to a halt when they encounter a critical emergency – a solar storm approaches and all communication signals are lost. To successfully explore Mars’ moons and complete the mission, the students must work together to protect the rovers and restore communication, analyze the data from their experiments, and select a moon to build a base.

possible routes for the rovers.
Conduct tests on both lunar
well as temperature ranges found
across the region.

StudentTeams:Teamworkiscriticaltoourmission!Eachstudentisassignedtoateamandworks withtheirsmallgrouptocompletetheirresearchandanalysis.

Geology Team	Rover Team
Explore terrain maps to analyze the	Calibrate and examine all of the features of the lunar surfaces in	required instruments on the rover search for a location for a suitable	to aid in exploration. Select human habitat. Conduct tests at	additional instruments to
each of these locations to	incorporate more design features determine levels of iron found in	to be used on future missions. the region.

Navigation Team	Conditions Team Analyze terrain maps of the lunar
surfaces to determine the best	surfaces to analyze the radiation Explore interactive maps to analyze	exposure levels at each location, as the satellite communication
signals available in the area.

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