Virtual Sojourner

Photo courtesy NASA

Carry out a "virtual Mars mission" just like the one Mars Pathfinder's rover, Sojourner, performed. Apply your new knowledge to future Mars missions!

Activities for grades 4 - 12

Activity 1: Driving Blind (create a map and command your rover to a destination).

Activity 2: Rover Rock Hunt (communicate with another classroom to find a "hidden rock").

Activity 3: Sim-Rover, a Web-based Rover Simulation (command a computer-based Pathfinder rover to a specified destination). Coming soon!

Teachers' resources

Written by

Richard Edgerton

Seattle Public Schools



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University of Washington
Comments and suggestions by

Janice DeCosmo

University of Washington

and

Lisa Poor

Bellevue Public Schools