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Analogue mission
This activity gives students the opportunity to navigate a map of Mars looking for regions of interest they will receive ‘mission’ data from to analyse. Students will first work in teams on an interactive activity, navigating terrain as either a rover or mission control. The main part of the activity asks students...
Careers
This interactive quiz gives students the opportunity to find a role to suit them on a mission to Mars. Provided as part of the ‘Roving with Rosalind’ resources, this quiz will give students the chance to reflect on whether they think a career in the space exploration industry would suit them.
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Roving with Rosalind is an education and outreach project which presents Mars mission based classroom activities for secondary schools as well as activity groups. This collection of resources is funded by the UK Space Agency, and give students the opportunity to complete activities such as deciding a...
Introduction to Roving with Rosalind
Roving with Rosalind is an education and outreach project funded by the UK Space Agency which presents Mars mission based classroom activities for primary and secondary schools as well as activity groups. The slides given here provide a very brief overview of the activities that have been produced and a...
Roving with Rosalind is...
Cheops mission video
With the aid of animations, ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) is introduced.
The video shows how the European space telescope is being used to determine the main characteristics of known extrasolar planets. Launched in Dec. 2019 it is ESA’s first mission in the Cosmic Vision science...
This collection of resources support learning about STEM subjects using the context of exploring Mars. Using the context of the ExoMars mission, activities link to areas of the curriculum including: science, design and technology, and computing. There are...
Steve Spittle – Emerging Technology Lead in Digital Intelligence
Steve looks at new technologies that advance the space industry. He works at the Space Applications Catapult, in Harwell. He gives the example of how image processing techniques used in the satellite industry can be used in the medical imaging. Imaging data has also been used to prevent illegal logging and to...
Shefali Sharma - Senior Commercial Strategist
Shefali engages with customers, media and investors to help to grow the company. Shefali works at Oxford Space Systems, a company developing innovative technology that is launched into space. She often helps to act as the link between customers and the engineers working on the satellite designs.
...Abbie Hutty - ExoMars Delivery Manager
Abbie is an engineer working at Airbus Defence and Space. She is in charge of ensuring that all the parts of the ExoMars Rover come together on time and to the right specification.
Abbie sets two challenges for students: to write an algorithm for a rover to avoid rocks on a grid and to come up with ideas...