With the exciting news about the Spirit Rover landing on Mars, our class decided that we would go to Mars for our shuttle mission. They also decided they needed to build models of the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers.

Two engineering teams were responsible for building the Martian rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. We were able to watch a NASA simulation on the Internet that showed the rovers in action. Other other research data came from the newspaper articles that documented their progress on Mars.

Children worked diligently to represent the key components of the actual rovers into their models, including the microscopic imager..

The following photos show the children working on these rovers.