The Martians

15/11/2017

Finally our blog has been updated! Go check our latest news and see what we have been up to :)

This is an official blog of The Martians team from NASA's Epic Challenge Education Program

03/09/2017

We welcome back to Earth astronauts and a kosmonaut from a long space mission and congratulate for the many record braiking achievement she succeeded to do while in orbit! 💫👏👍🍾 Must be weird to feel the gravity again...? 😄

Peggy Whitson set multiple other records while in orbit: world’s oldest spacewoman, at 57, and most experienced female spacewalker, with 10

08/05/2017

Want to hear about our idea how to search water on Mars? Come check us on Sci-Fest or read our blog: https://themartianssite.wordpress.com/

07/05/2017

Take a look at these pretty cool robots that JPL has designed for planetary exploration purposes! Perhaps some of those would be able to carry spectral sensor camera with it...? 🤖🤓

06/05/2017

Did you know that we have a stand at next week's Sci-Fest (11.-12.5.) where we'll be presenting our progress and current solution?

There's also going to be visiting couple of NASA's astronauts who are coming to make speeches on Sci-Fest and check how the Epic Challenge program is going :) So cool to have a change to meet real astronauts!

Here's more information about Sci-Fest: http://www.scifest.fi/workshops_en.php

See you there!

SciFest

03/05/2017

Wow, NASA plans to get humans to Mars in 2033! =D https://futurism.com/its-official-humans-are-going-to-mars-nasa-has-unveiled-their-mission/

The agency has a five-part plan to reach the Red Planet.

16/03/2017

This tiny bot could be exploring Martian caves and tunnels soon! I wonder what kind of sensors it would carry with it? Would any kind of spectral camera fit in it...? http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25692/meet-nasa-tiny-origami-puffer/

14/03/2017

Some facts about The first rover on Mars!!

mars rover was among the earliest and first successful rovers on mars. It landed on July 04 1997 and communication lost on September 27 1997.

means 'traveler' and represented the abolitionist and women's rights activist "Sojourner Truth".

Her name for the rover was chosen by a twelve year old girl named Ambroise


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_(rover)
http://www.stonehouseday.org/SojournerTruth.html

13/03/2017

Last Friday we were finally able to execute our first experiment with this toy ornithopter which we ordered from eBay. At this point the toy was able to carry up to 11g of steel wire (the toy itself weights only 14g) but we're going to repeat the test with few improvements.

22/02/2017

Interesting news from NASA, live now! -7 Earth like exoplanets found and 3 of them are in habitable zone :D

NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. Details of these findings are embargoed by the journal Nature until 1 p.m. Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing o...

19/02/2017

Can you recommend a good place here in Joensuu to have our logo printed? Show Room event is coming next Tuesday and our cardboard needs to look great :)

17/02/2017

As marvelous as Curiosity is it can not reach everywhere on Mars. That's why we're designing other concepts which could explore volcanoes for example.

(Picture is from INL's Flickr page, CC-licensed, source: https://goo.gl/RuYbto )