Tourist Guide

Mission to Mars

This is a model of a vehicle that has set foot on Mars. Ever since the summer of 2003, two NASA rovers, the Opportunity and the Spirit have been launched from Earth and landed in Mars. NASA has been using a vehicle similar to the model to drive around the surface of Mars, searching for existing life forms. The robotic vehicles act as geologists, searching the rocks and soils for signs that liquid water once flowed across Mars. It’s interesting how this rover act as a robotic geologist. It takes approximately nine months to get to Mars, and the findings that life once existed on Mars would make a breakthrough in science.