Curiosity Rover

Unfortunately, all good things eventually come to an end, as Nelly Furtado famously declared. Today we say goodbye to one of the biggest leaps in human history. We bid a farewell to NASA's Opportunity rover, abandoned and alone around 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away from our planet.

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Based on their experience exploring the Mars rover Curiosity and learning about what engineers must go through to develop a vehicle like Curiosity, students create Android apps that can control LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robots, simulating the difficulties the Curiosity rover could encounter. The activity goal is to teach students programming design and programming skills using MIT's App Inventor software as the vehicle for the learning. The (free to download) App Inventor program enables Android…

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Students imagine they are scientists or engineers designing a new space probe to explore our solar system. They choose a planet, review its weather factors, and use a rubric to gather information, make a plan, modify and/or test their plan, and create their design. Students conduct peer evaluation and revise, publish, and present their designs.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

Curiosity launched to explore Mars five years ago, to celebrate, here are five cool discoveries made by the rover.

A Martian giving water to the Mars Rover. Cute comic