Ten student interns at the Long Beach Unified School District’s California Academy for Mathematics and Science, (CAMS) High School will be building prototypes of the 2020 Mars Rover with STEAM++ director Bob Barboza and physicists, John Davis. This is part of the Occupy Mars Learning Adventure project-based learning and distance learning programs. www.KidsTalkRadioScience.com.
New Mars 2020 rover will be able to ‘hear’ the Red Planet
- The new Mars rover will have new sound and image capabilities
- It will also contain new instruments that aim to study the Martian surface
- What we learn from these instruments could help the human mission to Mars
(CNN)When the newly developed Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021 after embarking on a seven-month cruise through space, we will be able to hear sounds of the landing and the Martian surface for the first time, according to NASA.