Students from Nelson College and Nelson College Preparatory School had the chance to see what it’s like to drive a Mars Rover and handle fossils dating back millions of years during a recent science visit to the school.
Astrobiology educational programme Spaceward Bound visited the school last week with it’s interactive and immersive space science programme.
Along with the passionate educators came the inflatable Mars Blueberry Astrobiology Dome that uses the latest available data from space to give an immersive look at the Moon and planets.
Students also had the chance to control the six-wheeled robotic Mars Rover model and plan a route for it to take across complex terrain.
Astrobiologist Hari Mogosanu kept the students engaged with fun facts like they could jump three times higher on Mars and sharing fossils extracted from Earth that date back 3.4 billion years.
