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Kids!
Go on a Mars Adventure!
There's a new game on NASA's Space Place website. Create your own mission to Mars. Load your rocket ship with all your favorite supplies. But be careful! You're only allowed to take 10 items. Choose well, and you'll score high. Play it once, and play it again. It's different every time.
YOUR WEIGHT ON MARS
Because Mars is less dense than Earth, it has much less gravity. In fact, Mars has about
1
/
3
the gravity of Earth. This means that things weigh less on Mars. Use our
planetary scale
to weigh yourself on Mars and other planets in the solar system.
If you want to be a real engineer, set your hands to work on paper models of:
Pathfinder
,
Mars Global Surveyor
(pdf), and 2001 Mars Odyssey
Color
or
Black-and-White
(pdfs) spacecraft.
Be a planetary mapmaker by
creating a topography, or topo, map
of the Martian surface.
Help engineers design a spacecraft by
connecting the dots
or earn your pilot wings by
navigating through the maze
of outerspace.
Peer through our
solar telescope
to get a view of any planet in the solar system.
Learn how
robots help scientists
explore the universe or
read the story of a Little Rock on Mars
.
Visit
NASA Kids
at the Marshall Space Flight Center!
Visit the
Mission to Mars Kids Page
at Cornell University.
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