2. Prepare for boarding

3. MARS Navigation GPS

4. Mars at close orbit … is 35 million miles away………

6. MARS LANDING SAUCER

7. Take off in a Delta Rocket

9. Heading to Mars Thru the cold darkness of space

10. It will take seven months for us to reach Mars.

11. Engineers adjust flight paths along the way. A small trajectory error can result in a big detour where the rocket would miss the planet entirely.

12. SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS MAKE MANY DECISIONS DURING THESE MISSIONS.

13. Mars is in sight…

14. Preparing for.. de –orbit burn

15. MARS You have arrived

16. Establishing an orbit

17. We must slow down and get ready for landing.

18. We are going to look for a place to land near the equator so that we can have sunlight We will be using solar power

19. M ars has two polar ice caps composed of water ice and solid carbon dioxide ("dry ice")

20. MARS ATMOSPHERE CARBON DIOXIDE NITROGEN ARGON OXYGEN

21. A supersonic parachute will slow its descent.

22. SAUCER Robot is inside this balloon

23. The balloons help the robot land softly

24. AIR BAGS WITH ROBOTS INSIDE

25. ROBOT ROLLS OUT ON MARS

26. Greetings, welcome to planet mars

27. IT TAKES 15 MINUTES FOR TRANSMISSION SIGNALS TO REACH MARS FROM EARTH. 15 min.

28. FIRST MARS MISSION: PATHFINDER ROBOT NAMED SOJOURNER FIRST LANDING

29. MARS SOIL

30. If you lived on Mars, this would be your backyard

35. FIRST PICTURE OF MARS SENT BACK BY THE MARS ROVER

36. First… robot sent to mars 1971 Prop M. …. By the Russians Size of a shoebox

37. First U.S. ROBOT SOJOURNER

38. 2- ROCKETS WERE LAUNCHED 2003 Each carrying a robot

39. MARS ROBOTS Spirit Opportunity

40. Robot “Spirit” next to a 6 th grade girl

41. This young girl named the robots: Spirit Opportunity Size of a golf cart

42. She was born in Russia and adopted by an American family when she was two years old.

43. This is what she wrote that won a contest she had entered.

44. I used to live in an orphanage. It was cold, dark & lonely. At night, I looked up at the sky to feel better. I dreamed I could fly there. In America, I can make all my dreams come true. Thank-you for the 'Spirit' and the 'Opportunity'

45. SPIRIT&OPPORTUNITY ROBOTS

46. PICTURES FROM SPIRIT

48. MARS ROVER

50. Engineers study manuals to perform delicate operations

51. NASA program started 2012

52. Curiosity… the newest robot sent to mars Weight 1 ton …… Launched 2012 Size of a small car

58. Saucer Capsule

59. Curiosity

61. Robots to Mars 1. Prop M1971 Russians 2. Sojourner 1997 3. Spirit 2003 4. Opportunity 2003 5. Curiosity 2012

62. FUTURE EXPLORATION OF MARS

63. This is what mars could look like in 100 years I forgot my Iphone

64. This is a picture for now… and some day may be a reality

65. Heading home

66. Security Checkpoint Make sure you have your boarding passes

67. Come back soon.. We will be waiting

68. It will take us 7 months to return back to earth

69. Re-entering earth’s atmosphere

71. After we landed … we found we had a visitor on board Take me to your leader….