MISSION TO MARS

I DECIDED TO EXPLOR THERE BECAUSE...

• Mars is almost the same as Earth but Mars is much hotter and much colder at night
• What we hope to learn about mars though the rover that we will land
• Why we want to explore there in the first places is because there might be life
• I want to explore because they might have living creatures that I would like to check out
• Finally I want to see the biggest mountain , It is three times the side of mount Everest

WHAT WE WANT THE SPACE CRAFT TO DO...

• I want the space craft to land in exactly 7 min or else it is game over
• The problems we need to face is getting the rover to go through atmousepherr
• We want the parachute to fit in its little package so it can come out easily
• We dont want the suspension lines to snap
• Also we want to have the heat sheild to come on so nothing burns the rover

SPACE CRAFT PROTOTYPE #1

• I added a kittchen,refrigerator,and table
• I put in a bed,pillows,and blankets
• I thought I should have a movie room,with popcorn,and chairs
• Also I added a dance floor

SPACE CRAFT PROTOTYPE #2

• Made a totally new space craft
• added a rover
• put a heat shield
• put in a parachute
• Also added a rocket that would fly away when the rover has landed

FINAL SPACE CRAFT PROTOTYPE

• It has a large paper parachute
• four medium sized suspension lines
• one bull dog clip
• And we named it the Rose
• Finaly tested the parachute and got 2.3 seconds

WHY ARE PARACHUTES IMPORTANT ?

• Its important to your space craft so when you are landing the rover dose not crash land
• the parachute is connected to the lines so when the parachute is flying we dont want the lines to snap
• parachutes are for to land gently
• how the parachute works is it comes out of its package and it has to fit perfectly so nothing gets cot

TEST TIME!

• we had to chang the large lines to medium
• we kept the paper parachute
• we also tryed the medium parachute but it did not cetch all the air
• The result was 2.3 seconds

Final parachute !

• the parachute kept hitting the side of the latter
• the parachute fell at 2.3 seconds
• Also Phoebe recorded 3.9 feet/seconds
• the big sized parachute was good because it cot all the air and landed nicly
• and the lines did not break or snap

WHAT I LEARNED...

• I learned that we had to have a right amount of time or else we weren't mission ready
• I learned that the real parachute from Nasa had 48 lines
• I also learned that Nasa had only 7 minuets to land the rover
• Finally I learned that Nasa had a heat shield to go witnh the rover