Exploration Ideas
- Take a few of the tours esp the Rover ones done by Bill Nye the
Science Guy
- Find the robot landers
- Find the most interesting features e.g. The Face, The Inca Ruins,
The Highest Mountain, the Lowest Valley, the Polar Caps, the temperature
ranges, dust storms, why is it red? Who named it?
- Where would you land your spacecraft to begin exploration?
- Find the most beautiful high resolution image of the Martian surface.
- Write a short play that showcases some of the most interesting
features & facts about Mars.
- Write a play that outlines the exploration of Mars from the telescope
to the rovers.
- explore the tick buttons on the left hand side. What can you turn
on and off? Can you get it to show you the satellites in orbit around
the planet?
- Write 'I wonder questions' - eg I wonder who will be the first
person to stand on top of the Olympus Mons?
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In Google Earth click this button and switch to Google Mars.
- Write a readers theatre script that explores the exploration
or features of Mars.
- Download Google Earth & Google
Mars is included
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