Here are some of the facts I learn't
A Bit About Mars
The oldest meteorite from mars is ALH84001, The meteorite is 4.1 Billion years old, Basaltic meteorites are known as shergottites, Days on Mars are 24.6 Hours long, Mars has a thin atmosphere, Mars has two moons their names are Phobos and Deimos, Years on mars are 687 days
Another thing we did was Virtual Mars Yard, Virtual Mars Yard is where we give our Mars lander commands to follow so it moves around. we can almost make certain ones change it size. Lastly we could also look through its camera and looks at certain spots by changing the angle.
One of the most interesting task we did was using a Sphero. Firstly we had to type out our code onto an iPad to control the sphero. Next we had to test it to see if had worked properly. What the code actually does is to tell the sphero to make it’s LED green and move forwards, then turn the LED red and stop, finally it would turn 90 degrees and do it again until it formed an entire square.
A bit about InSight!
The InSight robot was designed to discover the inside of mars rather than just look at the surface or terrain. They want to see inside Mars, InSight also carries a special monitor to measure seismic waves. It has a special heat flow and physical probe, it will drill into the ground to a depth of sixteen feet. It then uses the drill to measure the thermal rate. The monitor that measures the seismic waves also needs to stay still so it can get accurate seismic data.
Hypothesis
We still need to do a lot of work, I don’t fully think it will work the way I want it too, meaning it won’t turn well. But I do think that we can make it go back and forwards.
