by msander | Sep 23, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
Chris Hadfield says the psychological ramifications of being so far from Earth will play a big part in missions to Mars. Some of Canada’s current and former astronauts spoke at an event at the University of Ottawa on Friday. Source: Chris Hadfield says Mars missions...
by msander | Jul 6, 2018 | All Science Teachers, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech
If you’ve taken a look at the southeastern sky after midnight recently, you may have noticed what appears to be a red star rising in the east. But that’s no star. It’s Mars — and it is about to get closer to Earth than it has been in a very long...
by msander | May 7, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
A robotic lander has been launched for a mission to Mars, where it will probe the planet’s interior. Source: NASA launches InSight spacecraft bound for Mars | CBC News
by msander | Apr 30, 2018 | All Science Teachers
To make a crewed Mars mission possible, there are incredibly complex problems that need to be solved. Here are some of the things at the top of NASA’s to-do list, and how engineers and psychologists are figuring them out. Source: Engineering, psychology and...
by msander | Oct 23, 2017 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry, Gr. 11-12 Physics
It’s going to be a lot easier to colonize Mars if we can terraform it first. The first step would be to give Mars a thicker atmosphere, which means it will need a magnetic field, or magnetosphere, to protect it. Here’s how we would do...
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