Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong talks with NPR’s Joe Palca, who explains why these launches are happening now and the goal of the missions when they get there.
Because of the different amounts of time it take for Mars and the Earth to each orbit the sun, it sometimes may look like Mars is traveling backwards. In this interactive lesson, students will learn what “retrograde” and “opposition” means in astronomy while modeling this phenomenon.
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Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story Mo the Mars Man, a story celebrating the upcoming landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.
Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story “Mission to Mars”. We have sent landers and rovers to Mars, but we never have sent humans to explore the Red Planet.
Did you know Mars is inhabited by robots?
Celebrate the landing with a live chat all about Mars, featuring Abigail Harrison, aka “Astronaut Abby,” an aspiring astronaut and founder of “The Mars Generation.”