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Project Summary: Students involved in this project will investigate the environmental conditions on Mars as well as the process of sending an unmanned mission to Mars. They will design and build a semi-autonomous robot that can perform various tasks and record important environmental data. The culmination of this project will involve an information gathering activity through the manipulation of a remote robotic rover through a student built Martian landscape. Students in the Environmental Science Classes will investigate the atmospheric and geologic conditions on Mars and develop a lab setting to simulate the Martian environment. After we acquiring the electronic components and software, we will be able to design and build the Mars Rover and remote landing center. The students will then test the rover in conditions similar to that of scientists at NASA using a remote camera, remote manipulation of the rover, sensors, data-logging software and programming software. The Mars Red Rover Project was developed by The Planetary Society. The Red Rover Project will allow students to understand and evaluate environmental conditions such as temperature, lighting conditions, and wind speed as well as send images of the landscape back to the Rover Control Center. This information will be logged and graphed using the Robolab Investigator software.
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