Name: __________________________ Date: ________ Class: ______________ MARS ROVER: I can … the nearest tenth place (decimals). • measure the length of a line accurately to identify key ideas from a non-fictional informational text. • convert units rates. • apply the inquiry process to predict, collect data, analyze and form conclusions. • complete a table to organize data. • create a single line graph using independent and dependent variables to reflect data collected. • calculate and compare rates of speed. • Source: sciencenewsforkids.org http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/08/curiosity-lands-on-mars/ Curiosity lands on Mars! By Janet Raloff / August 8, 2012 On August 5, after a journey lasting more than 8 months, a carlike rover carefully settled down onto the surface of Mars. The vehicle is basically a science lab. Its mission: to search for evidence that the Red Planet might even if the organisms were only one-celled microbes. once have hosted life — The first stage of this mission the landing is — — “an amazing achievement,” observes Charles Bolden. He runs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, which built and delivered the vehicle to Mars. NASA named the robotic cruiser Curiosity. The six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle weighs 900 kilograms (about 1 U.S. ton). Roughly 2.8 meters (9 feet) long, it carries 10 research instruments. Seventeen separate cameras (including one on the to scan below it) will survey the landscape and record experiments. rover’s belly, The to of the rover’s primary goal “is explore habitable environments,” says project scientist John Grotzinger Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. By habitable, he means an environment that can support life. His team interprets that to mean there must be water, carbon a basic building block of life on Earth — — and food to fuel an he told Science News. organism’s activities, of Curiosity on the Martian surface. Credit: NASA Artist’s drawing
Name: __________________________ Date: ________ Class: ______________ MARS ROVER: I can … • measure the length of a line accurately to the nearest tenth place (decimals). • identify key ideas from a non-fictional informational text. • convert units rates. • apply the inquiry process to predict, collect data, analyze and form conclusions. • complete a table to organize data. • create a single line graph using independent and dependent variables to reflect data collected. • calculate and compare rates of speed. Source: sciencenewsforkids.org http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/08/curiosity-lands-on-mars/ Curiosity lands on Mars! By Janet Raloff / August 8, 2012 On August 5, after a journey lasting more than 8 months, a carlike rover carefully settled down onto the surface of Mars. The vehicle is basically a science lab. Its mission: to search for evidence that the Red Planet might once have hosted life — even if the organisms were only one-celled microbes. The first stage of this mission — the landing — is “an amazing achievement,” observes Charles Bolden. He runs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, which built and delivered the vehicle to Mars. NASA named the robotic cruiser Curiosity. The six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle weighs 900 kilograms (about 1 U.S. ton). Roughly 2.8 meters (9 feet) long, it carries 10 research instruments. Seventeen separate cameras (including one on the rover’s belly, to scan below it) will survey the landscape and record experiments. The rover’s primary goal “is to explore habitable environments,” says project scientist John Grotzinger of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. By habitable, he means an environment that can support life. His team interprets that to mean there must be water, carbon — a basic building block of life on Earth — and food to fuel an organism’s activities, he told Science News. Artist’s drawing of Curiosity on the Martian surface. Credit: NASA