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Roving Around the Red Planet
ASEE Prism, Summer 2006 by Tooley, Jo Ann
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EVEN THOUGH you know that NASA successfully landed robots Spirit and Opportunity on Mars in 2003, the thrilling new Imax movie "Roving Mars" makes you bite your nails and start to wonder if the duo completed the long journey. You watch anxiously as the scientists and engineers struggle to get the rovers ready in time for a launch date that's based on the orbits of Earth and Mars lining up. It's only during this short window of opportunity that they can load enough fuel into the rovers for the 300 million mile trip. Getting to the Red Planet is tricky business, and NASA engineers had to overcome a host of problems, including parachutes that kept tearing during test runs. You suffer through the tense moments in the control room as engineers wait to see if Spirit and Opportunity land safely. Once they touch down, you watch in admiration as the rovers, who by now have developed their own personalities, set out to discover if Mars ever had water on its surface. "Roving Mars," which is a mix of actual film footage and computer animations that had to pass muster from NASA, is playing this summer atmore than a dozen Imax theaters around the nation.-JO ANN TOOLEY
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