A high-tech space rover is scheduled to touch down on Mars this month and the Ontario Science Centre wants to celebrate with you and your family.
After seven months and about 480-million kilometres, NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to enter the Martian atmosphere on February 18.
It’ll be tasked with searching for any signs of past life on ‘the red planet.’
Over the course of two years, Perseverance will comb through Jezero Crater, which some scientists believe was once home to a lake.
The rover will also collect rock and soil samples and test new technology for future space missions.
“This is an incredibly exciting mission that has been years in the making, and depending what the researchers find, it could fundamentally change the way we understand our nearest planetary neighbour,” says Ontario Science Centre Astronomer Rachel Ward-Maxwell, PhD. “The team behind Perseverance includes engineers, physicists, geologists and mathematicians, showcasing how science is most powerful when we work together.”
Ahead of the landing, the Science Centre will be hosting two special livestreamed events.
On February 17 at 2 p.m., you can follow along with an educational discussion with Cecilia Leung, Ph.D., a planetary scientist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Then, on February 18 from 7 to 9 p.m., the centre will host a virtual star party on Twitter and YouTube.
There is also a weeks worth of activities online. You can build your own rover at home, launch a bottle rocket or calculate the math behind the mission.
Five unique augmented reality experiences have also been developed by the centre and partner YumeGO.
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2021-02-09 16:45:00Z
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