"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
 MarsBotsMarsBots is a fun, exciting, hands-on set of activities for kids who want to learn about the Martian environment and robotic exploration. Projects include using Play Dough to make planets, commanding a "robotic arm" and designing landers to carry (and protect) eggs dropped from a building. Try it yourself! Visit MarsBots Lessons and check out the activities and experiments. Mission Patches and SpacecraftDesign a mission patch and spacecraft using household objects. Pictured below are designs by Tucson 3rd and 4th grade students. Aqua Patch
 Cyrus Lander Patch
 Electric Martians Patch
 Martian Engineers Patch
 Purple Martians Patch
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The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is, with project management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership with Lockheed Martin Space Systems. International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus Denmark; the Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Additional information on Phoenix is online at here and here. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Additional information on NASA's Mars program is online at here.
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